Issue Highlights
- Portable mixer tips
- Ideal valves for slurries
Make your portable mixer work for you
Understanding the fundamentals of fluid agitation can help meet the customer’s requirement and the processor’s need for efficiency. While portable mixers have been around for years, they often aren’t used to their full potential. Knowing the basics of mixing and flow patterns can help you get more out of your mixer.
Ask the Experts: Solids Processing
Question: In flowing slurries through 1-in., 1.5-in. and 2-in. lines and with pressures in the 150# ANSI range, are ball valves or plug valves better suited for this application and why? Assume 30 psid pressure drops across the valves. Find out the answer or pose your own question at ChemicalProcessing.com's Ask the Experts.
Webcast: Avoid alarm blunders
Many plants suffer from over-alarming of their control systems — and so risk compromising response to critical alarms. This complimentary, 25-minute webcast covers 13 typical mistakes that lead to over-alarming and provides practical pointers for avoiding them and for establishing a reliable alarm-management system. Mik Marvan, product manager, Alarm Management Solutions Matrikon Inc. in Edmonton, Alberta leads you in this webcast step-by-step.
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