Rotary kilns, ball mills, clinker coolers, and heavy crushers get all the attention when people picture a cement facility. But the reliability of every one of those big assets depends on the smaller connective hardware running between them, and that...
If you run a mining or mineral processing facility, you already know the story. Standard valves don't just wear out in your pipelines, they get destroyed. Slurry lines chew through ball valves in months. Knife gates pack up and refuse to close....
Valves used in oil and gas processing carry more of the plant's reliability numbers than most people outside the unit realize. Every isolation point, every catalyst withdrawal, every boiler blowdown line, and every coker feed feeds the same metrics...
Producing synthetic oil from natural gas puts valves through two of the harshest environments in the process industries: syngas generation and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Outlet temperatures near 2,000°F, catalyst fines that behave like sandpaper,...
