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03.03.10 -- Pump Maintenance Know-How

March 3, 2010

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Pump Maintenance Know-How
By The Gorman-Rupp Company
It's no secret that a pump that runs at peak efficiency uses less fuel, experiences less downtime, and costs less to operate. The time you spend maintaining your pump is actually an investment in its lifetime performance and value. In fact, there are many ways that a diligently maintained pump can reduce your costs while increasing efficiency. For instance, by ensuring your pump investment brings an ease-of-service design, the time you spend on maintenance can be significantly minimized.


Producing Gains With Loss-In-Weight Feeders
By Schenck AccuRate
PolyOne Corp., headquartered in Avon Lake, OH, is a worldwide polymer services company that produces and supplies polymers, elastomers, colorants, and additives for various products. The company's plastic compounds and colors group operates a facility in Vonore, TN, that produces color concentrates used by other industries to color plastic products. The company recently upgraded the Vonore plant's processing lines and automated the ingredient-feeding process to eliminate problems caused by operators having to manually handle and feed the various ingredients.


Conveying Powders, Granular Items, And Flakes Pneumatically
By VAC-U-MAX
With today's economic pressures, more plant managers and others charged with conveying powders, granular items, and flakes for packaging are adopting the automatic operation of vacuum conveying and packaging equipment as standards to hit critical price points for market success.

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Brochure: Arizona Instrument General Lab Services
At Arizona Instrument LLC the testing lab is kept busy, very busy. Arizona Instrument LLC is the manufacturer of the Computrac line of moisture analyzers. These instruments are the leaders in easy-to-use moisture/solids/ash analysis and are utilized in a variety of different industries.

Product Brochure: Rocket Evaporator
Developed largely as a consequence of users' demands for an evaporator that could quickly process larger volumes of solvent in parallel and without supervision, the Rocket Evaporator is designed to dry or concentrate as many as six flasks, each containing up to 450 mL of solvent.

Datasheet: Multi-Shaft Mixers
Ross operates five plants in the United States, along with Ross-owned and licensed plants in Europe, Asia, the Indian Sub-Continent, and Africa. The Ross family of multi-shaft mixers includes sizes from 1/2 gallon to 4,000 gallons and a multitude of options to meet the needs of most industrial applications.

Brochure: Tantalum Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers
Steel picklers have traditionally used carbon block heat exchangers to heat their shallow tank, high-turbulence pickle baths. The multigasketed designs and fragile nature of graphite heat exchangers still require continuous maintenance and repair, which results in expensive downtime and spare parts.

Brochure: Flow-Sizer
The Flow-Sizer is an economical, heavy-duty crusher designed to reduce dry bulk materials to a consistent, fine, free-flowing size.

Paratherm System Cleaner For Hot Oil Systems
Paratherm LC system cleaner works while the system runs, and needs about two weeks (or more) in a running system to dissolve and suspend the sludge and carbon deposits that may have formed during routine operation.

Brochure: ProcessMaster Electromagnetic Flowmeter
Getting the best levels of efficiency and performance from your production process requires reliable, accurate instrumentation. ProcessMaster delivers the power to solve your most demanding process applications, enabling previously unattainable operational and financial benefits.

Datasheet: Accutech FL10 Wireless Float Level Field Unit
Specifically designed for level measurement in either single liquid or dual liquid (interface) applications, the FL10 Float Level Field Unit wirelessly provides accurate level readings thanks to the low-power Siemens Model 2100 digital level sensor. A built-in temperature sensor adds extra flexibility to the system.
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