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AOV Manager Marie Murphy puts safety first and foremost
It may be an obvious statement but they take safety very, very seriously at nuclear power plants. Equipment and processes are continually checked to ensure the plant functions as it should. Visiting the USA, Valve World caught up with AOV Program Manager Marie Murphy to ask what her job entails....
Electric actuators in extreme environments
In this technical article, AUMA’s Michael Herbstritt details the role of actuators play in extreme applications and explains how actuation technology can meet the demands of these environments. Examples provided include a copper mine in the Chilean Andes, a flood control project and a nuclear reactor....
Five minutes with Mr Fernando Spisto
In an on-going series of interviews, Valve World puts some rapid-fire questions to engineers working for end user companies and engineering contractors. In August 2008, one of Bechtel’s Senior Control System Engineers agreed to take the hotseat....
Safety first and foremost at AOV MOV events
Valve World’s David Sear reports from the 2008 editions of the AOV and MOV annual meetings, held in Orlando, Florida. He found the events to be extremely open platforms where engineers and technicians discussed issues around the use of air and motor operated valves in nuclear power plants....
SIPOS meets challenges of world's largest lignite plant
In this case history, the author describes how SIPOS set about equipping a major lignite plant with actuator solutions....
Valve actuation and control in the modern super refinery
When you are operating one of the largest single refinery sites in the world, then you need a well thought out actuation strategy. One that couples superior commissioning and data transfer technologies to robust actuators with a proven track record, for example. Review of Reliance’s Jamnagar Refinery....
Valve actuation at the world’s largest flow metering calibration facility
Situated by the New Meuse River in Rotterdam, EuroLoop will be the world’s largest research and test site for flow meters. The facilities make extensiove use of electric and pneumatic actuators with sophisticated control systems....
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