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Contents

Process Industry News & Events (3-6)

Applications (8 & 9)

Fluids & Liquids Handling inc Pumps & Valves (12-15)

Maintenance (16)

Drives (16)

BPMA News - The Pump Manufacturers Association (17-24)

Health & Safety (28-29)

Analysers (29)

Instrumentation (9-19)

Walk in Test Chambers (35)

Powder Flow Measurement (35)

Data Acquisition (35)

Test & Measurement (35)

Enclosures (38)

Power Supplies (38)

Process Control (39)

Editorial Features

Engineering for Prosperity - Opinion Article (5)

Brian Holliday, Divisional Director, Siemens Industry Automation, argues that the manufacturing industry and the engineering skills of employees now and in the future will play a central role in helping sustain the UK’s economic health - but there is much work to be done.

Efficiency Improvements in Heat Transfer & HVAC (7)

If the challenge for heat transfer and HVAC sectors is to lower running costs and lengthen maintenance service intervals, then a coating that achieves this by reducing surface fouling with virtually self-cleaning surfaces, that dramatically improves heat transfer coefficients, and reduces corrosion must be good. It sounds unbelievable. Can these illusive benefits actually be achieved? The evidence presented here indicates that they can.

By Allen Chasteauneuf, Managing Director, Alkemy Ltd

Control System Integrated Valve Diagnostics: Integration of Final Control Elements into DCS Maintenance Applications (10/11)

Efficient predictive maintenance has an increasing impact on the profitability of plants in terms of plant availability and maintenance costs. Valves and actuators offer some of the biggest potential rewards since they typically account for the biggest portion of the maintenance effort.

By Jo Kirkbride of ABB Instrumentation

Overcoming the difficulties of Dry Magnetic Separation (26/27)

The magnetic treatment of industrial minerals is conducted in both wet and dry processes. The decision to process wet or dry is determined by one of two factors; how the end customer wishes to receive the material or the process route needed to achieve the end customer specification. In many cases, non metallic mineral processors prefer to process in a dry state, but the present technology only enables purification when as a slurry.

Paul Fears, Managing Director, Eriez Magnetics Europe Ltd

High accuracy, low maintenance level measurement for the process industry improves efficiency and enhances safety (30/31)

In this article Catrine Bengtsson, Process Level, Emerson Process Management, reviews some of the high accuracy level measurement technologies and looks at where they could be used in the process industry.

Engineering Energy Bill Reduction (36/37)

If there is one thing that can be accurately predicted, it is that energy costs are going to go up significantly over the short and medium term. And with energy a major cost in many process industries, managers must take efficiency far more seriously if they are to remain competitive, says Andy Parker-Bates of Parker SSD Drives.