Peter Ehlers of Swagelok looks at ball valve considerations for alternative fuel service.When choosing a shut-off ball valve for natural gas vehicles (NGV) or compressed natural gas vehicles (CNG) applications, the first consideration should be certification. Is the ball valve you're considering (more...)

As Guernsey's only water company, Guernsey Water is tasked with supplying high quality drinking water to over 24,000 households and businesses. Nearly 66,000 people rely on the company's daily output of about 12 million litres - a figure which rises significantly during the summer months, when the (more...)

Hayward Tyler Services, part of the Hayward Tyler Group, has successfully delivered a new High Integrity Gate Valve (HIGV) to Hampton Water Treatment Works in London. During the late 1980s and early 1990s Hayward Tyler manufactured and delivered a total of 38-off 1,800mm High Integrity Gate Valves (more...)

Rotork Skilmatic EH electro-hydraulic valve actuators have provided a successful solution for the provision of reliable emergency valve operation on a slurry pipeline in one of the world's most arid, inhospitable and remote locations. The Atacama Desert in north-east Chile is traversed by an eighty (more...)

Quick, accurate, reliable dispensing of micro-dot quantities of adhesives, greases, inks and oils is now literally at hand with the Tridak Micro-Dot from Intertronics.Peter Swanson, Intertronics managing director, explains: "The Micro-Dot dispenser is a brilliant little tool - it uses a (more...)

The REG from Kobold Instruments is a simple yet effective device for the automatic control of water flow. Available in a range of preset values from 1-280 L/min, it can be installed in-line to ensure that the maximum desired throughput is never exceeded. Regardless of pressure fluctuations, the (more...)

A high pressure air charging valve which provides the capability for a reliable manually operated valve that facilitates the charging or bleeding of a high pressure gas system, is now available from Lee Products. The valve's easy-to-use function and leak-proof characteristics make it an ideal choice (more...)

Schaeffler's RUE-E range of roller monorail guidance systems can now be fitted with special lubricant metering valves to ensure that the lubricant is precisely metered under all operating conditions, regardless of the guide's mounting position. This reduces lubricant consumption and reduces (more...)

The Lee VHS series of high-speed, micro-dispense valves are ideal for applications which require small, yet highly reliable and repeatable dispense volumes, for example those occurring in micro-biological dispensing and ‘drop-on-demand’ high-speed ink jet printing.These micro-dispense (more...)

Among the important requirements for components specified for critical ‘hi-tech’ flow control applications, such as in fuel lines in aviation or Formula One racing cars, are make it smaller, make it lighter. To meet these demands Lee Products has developed a range of flow restrictors and (more...)