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An X-ray camera using special optics and claimed to last longer than conventional equipment, could provide manufacturers with improved reliability when monitoring components on the production line.

The developers of the camera at Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Erlangen claim the XEye can survive 10 years of X-ray bombardment. In addition, they said, the device, which is available in a range of sizes, is more robust and has a higher resolution than conventional cameras.

While no human could withstand the bombardment of X-rays 24 hours a day, seven days a week, industrial X-ray cameras have to endure those conditions to detect faulty components. The cameras must constantly scrutinise thousands of parts that glide past on the conveyor belt every day and search for dangerous faults, such as fine cracks in car wheels and air bubbles in metal castings.

Sensitive applications such as food, electronics, medicine, painting plants, breathing air etc have to meet particularly high requirements concerning the purity of compressed air.

Activated carbon filters and adsorbers have only limited capacity to remove oil and its difficult to find the best point in time for changing elements. The concentration of oil vapours in the suction air is subject to considerable fluctuations and overloading can lead to damaged filter elements. Sudden oil break-through can cause high consequential costs.

In order to achieve higher process security in compressed air treatment Beko Instruments has developed measuring instruments for supervising the oil content. Conventional differential pressure manometers only indicate the due exchange of air de-oiling elements and fine filters. Serious defects, for example, pitting corrosion or assembly error are not covered by this device. Oil Control however, does not react to the rise of the differential pressure, but on changed remainder oil rates in the streaming compressed air. The residual oil content is measured according to the ion exchange method. The crucial advantages are:

Motivair Compressors Limited through their Technical Programmes operation at Brownhills in the West Midlands have successfully completed a triplex, skid mounted instrument compressed air system for installation and commissioning at the Thyna Petroleum Services project for onshore gas field processing facilities at Kerkennah Island, 30 km east of the city of Sfax, Tunisia, North Africa.

Motivair were contracted by Petrofac International based in Sharjah in the Arabian Gulf, via their UK office to design and engineer the project in 18 to 20 working weeks from receipt of the purchase order.

Motivair were able to complete the project on time and within budget to the complete satisfaction of both Petrofac International and the end user.

 

Compressed-air processing at its finest: oil-free and dry, compressed-air class 1 and better. Produced in a single process step after compression. Bekokat, the innovative catalysis method for compressed-air processing by Beko Technologies, makes it possible.

One single system for complete compressed-air de-oiling, with pure water as condensate, which may be discharged directly into the foul sewer. With Bekokat, Beko technologies, has made a big step forward. We are talking about a catalytic system which has been developed and optimised specifically for the total oxidation of hydrocarbons in compressed air. Association of the name used in the automotive industry is deliberate. Because everybody has already heard of catalytic converters for petrol and diesel engines. Here, contaminants in the waste gas, in particular hydrocarbons, are combusted to carbon dioxide and water vapour.

Bekokat technology now also makes good use of this principle for compressed air.  In the compressed air of oil-lubricated compressors, hydrocarbons are available in the form of lubricants and oils, and further air components in the form of gas, vapour and aerosols.  They are sufficiently well-known as impurities and condensate and require, depending on the application, extensive filtration, discharge and condensate processing. The innovative Bekokat systems fully convert these very substances into carbon dioxide and water.

Breathing air is subject to medical laws. MEDBAC ( Medical Breathing Air Control) has been developed for monitoring compressed air quality in the medical field. The MEDBAC measuring device allows the continuous, electronic, microprocessor- controlled monitoring of the limit values according to the European Pharmacopoeia or HTM2022.

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Engineering Maintenance Solutions is proud to anounce that we will be exhibiting at MAINTEC 2008. EMS magazine will be running official MAINTEC exhibition previews and reviews within the January/February 2008 edition and the March/April 2008 edition.

Please feel free to come and meet the EMS team at their MAINTEC stand where we will be distributing the latest issues of EMS as well as serving beverages and snacks throughout
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Deritend is one of the few UK companies qualified to repair, certify, install and commission electric motors for use in ATEX zoned environments. While traditional ATEX industries such as petrochemical processing facilities are used to conformity, Deritend is warning that motors without correct certification are likely to be used in the recently defined ATEX zone 20 to 22 dust conditions. Companies need to use suppliers and repairers that correctly certify machines if they are to avoid liability should something go wrong.

Commenting, Dave Hawley, General Manager of Deritend

Deritend is one of the few UK companies qualified to repair, certify, install and commission electric motors for use in ATEX zoned environments. While traditional ATEX industries such as petrochemical processing facilities are used to conformity, Deritend is warning that motors without correct certification are likely to be used in the recently defined ATEX zone 20 to 22 dust conditions. Companies need to use suppliers and repairers that correctly certify machines if they are to avoid liability should something go wrong.

Commenting, Dave Hawley, General Manager of Deritend

The boiler make-up water treatment plant at the Isle of Grain Power Station is refurbished
 
At 30 years old, the boiler make-up water treatment plant at E.ON