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Diagnostic monitoring system

The SWANview system is designed to provide the information needed for in-depth testing, analysis, and assessment of a company's machinery. The system uses stress wave analysis technology (SWAN), which is intended to provide accuracy in detecting faults, quantifiably measure the magnitude of the defect, and isolate the fault location. This design monitors high-frequency ultrasound generated by friction shock events between moving parts.
Swantech LLC
www.swantech.com

 


Forest management software

ForestHawk 2.0 is a real-time online management system for forest landowners. It is designed to help maximize the landowner's potential while reaching key financial objectives. All property and map data can be combined and stored in one integrated system for total management of the forest. This computer application is intended to be a high-tech alternative to time-consuming paperwork.
Resource Management Services Inc.
www.resourcemgt.com

 


Web-based monitoring

Emerson Process Management introduces e-fficiency (www.e-fficiency.com), an Internet-based service that delivers information about performance of process plant equipment directly to a Web browser for access by processing manufacturing customers. Designed for personnel involved with maintenance and reliability of rotating equipment, e-fficiency provides access to a comprehensive set of performance results, customized reports, and graphical representations for monitoring plant performance.
Emerson Process Management
www.emersonprocess.com

 


Comprehensive control solution

Pac-Sim Walsh has developed a comprehensive control solution designed to optimize newsprint mill performance through the application of advanced control technologies to the TMP process. This optimization is achieved through the mainline refiner and reject refiner control modules, which are devised to regulate specific energy and blowline consistency for the maintenance of freeness, fiberlength distribution, and shive content.
Pac-Sim Walsh
www.walshautomation.com

 


Process networking products and services

Fieldlink, a new program of process networking products and services, is available from StoneL. These products are designed to facilitate the installation and improve the reliability of bus networks in processing plants, including those in hazardous environments. The Fieldlink program includes components that are intended to make bus network installation fast, easy, and effective.
StoneL Corp.
www.StoneL.com

 


Process control solution

The PMD process control solution from Honeywell is designed to unify the control of process, machinery, and drives into a single system. The new user interface for Alcont PMD uses HMIWeb technology. This technology uses HTML as the native display format, allowing the most open and direct integration of process, application, and business information available.
Honeywell Industrial Control

 


Wet flue gas desulfurization systems

A new brochure from B&W explains the company's experience and technology in designing wet flue gas desulfurization systems. Features, benefits, and process descriptions are included along with eight project summaries highlighting the company's experience. The brochure discusses B&W's complete turnkey services, available for either new power plant construction or retrofitting scrubbers into existing facilities.
Babcock & Wilcox Co.

 


Dust-management technologies

A new brochure from Martin Engineering and ONDEO Nalco Co. discusses the companies' dust management program. The eight-page brochure outlines the combination of two industry technologies: Martin's "Pyramid Approach" for the control of fugitive material through containment, collection, and suppression; and ONDEO's DustFoam fugitive dust control agent. This alliance is designed to provide dust suppression technology for the bulk material handling industries.
Martin Engineering and Nalco Chemical Co.

 


Steam joint

The Deublin HPS steam joint is a self-supported design. Two bearings support the housing, allowing the rotor to rotate easily within the joint body. In the seal assembly, the convex antimony-impregnated carbon graphite steal ring mates against a concave metallic surface. The HPS features a convex seal ring that is designed to be four times more resistant to failure than concave rings.
Deublin Co.

 


 

Mass flow transmitters

The Series 504FT in-line mass flow transmitters from Kurz Instruments incorporate the all-welded thermal sensor, a miniature "in-the-head" microprocessor, and a large, lighted LCD/keypad with set-up and configuration menus. It uses two all-welded RTD sensors designed to provide fast measurements of velocity and process temperature. It also includes up to two isolated 4-20 mA outputs and alarms.
Kurz Instruments Inc.

 


 

Environmental products

DBS introduces "The Environmental Solution," a multimedia presentation that includes its catalogs and full line of products on CD ROM. Products featured in the presentation include: low speed aerators for pulp mill lagoons, which feature stainless steel rotors; "bolt-in" replacement drives for effluent wastewater treatment; clarifiers, thickeners, and all recaust clarifiers; and vacuum and drum filter replacement drives.
DBS Manufacturing Inc.

 


 

Real-time monitoring systems

INTEK has introduced the Rheo Vac monitor - a device designed for helping pulp and paper manufacturers to optimize vacuum-drying processes. The device monitors vacuum-based water extraction systems in real time. Its output examines the progress in the drying process, the efficiency of vacuum pumps, and the presence of any air-leakage to the vacuum system.
INTEK Inc.

 


High-temperature lubricants

Krytox, a range of products from DuPont Performance Lubricants, is designed for extremely high-temperature applications. Krytox products are intended to extend the life of bearings in industrial applications. This technology is a blend of low-volatility oils, additives, and thickeners that increase adhesion to protect bearing surfaces subjected to high heat conditions.
DuPont Performance Lubricants
www.dupont.com

 


 

Health and safety programs

The Triangle of Prevention (TOP) program is intended to reduce serious accidents and promote the well-being of its members, communities, and industries. It involves both workers and management in the issues. The program educates all members to learn to identify six major systems of safety - design and engineering, maintenance and inspection, mitigation devices, warning devices, training and procedures, and human factors.
PACE International Union

 


 

 

Non-impingement disc pump

Discflo introduces its new and updated product brochure. It contains information on two new products, the ANSI 2000 disc pump and the discmixer. It provides performance curves, operating ranges, and configuration options. The disc pumps offer the boundary layer/viscous operation technology, which is designed to produce a smooth laminar flow that reduces wear and shear dramatically.
Discflo Corp.

 


 

Tension transducers

SUPB, the new tension transducer from Dover Flexo Electronics Inc., is designed to measure process web tension accurately in industrial winding and converting applications. When used in a pair, the transducers are secured, one on each side of a web-machine frame, under pillow blocks that support a dead-shaft or live-shaft idler roll. The pair senses tension on the idler roll as it passes over it.
Dover Flexo Electronics Inc.