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Contents

Process Industry News & Events (3-8)

Applications (7-11)

Data Transmission (8)

Enclosures (11)

Command Panels (14)

Cooling Units (14)

Spraying Systems (14)

Water Treatment Plant (14)

Mixing & Blending (15)

Fluids & Liquids Handling inc Pumps & Valves (19-22)

Flywheel Couplings (22)

BPMA News (The Pump Manufacturers Association) (23-30)

Manitenance (31)

Calibration (31)

Process Control (33)

Pipework Bending (34)

Test & Measurement (34)

Instrumentation (34-38)

Analysers (38-39)

Health & Safety (40-41)

Heat Transfer & Energy (41-44)

Filtration & Separation (44)

PPMA Preview (The Processing & Packaging Association Show) (45-51)

Product & Services Directory (52)

Editorial Features

Choosing the Right Proportional Valve for Your Application (12-13) or go here to read article version

In this article, Dave Minors, product support manager with ASCO NUMATICS, looks at some of the factors to consider when choosing a proportional valve

Advice on How to Convert Your Processing Plant to H1 and HT-1 Registered Food Machinery Lubricants (16-17) or go here to read article version

Recalls of food and beverage products due to contamination concerns have risen significantly over the last decade. Considering that recalled products can be devastating to a brand and potentially harmful to consumers, it is not surprising that the U.S. Food Processing 2008 Annual Manufacturing Trends Survey indicated that food and beverage processors' number one concern is food safety, more so than energy, labor issues or environmental concerns

Peristaltic: first choice technology for caustic or abrasive pumping applications (18) or go here to read article version

By Ashley Shepherd, UK Sales Manager, Watson-Marlow Pumps Group

While few dispute that positive displacement (PD) pumps remain the preferred choice for metering highly caustic and corrosive chemicals, a new trend is emerging regarding pump type selection. Historically diaphragm and progressive cavity (PC) pumps have dominated this area of the market, but today, increasing numbers of process engineers are turning to peristaltic technology which has become intrinsically suited to dosing, metering and transferring chemicals such as hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide, sodium hypochlorite and sulphuric acid, to name but a few.

WIRELESS TEMPERATURE SENSING BY ACOUSTIC WAVE SENSORS (32) or go here to read article version

By Kerem Durdag – Director Of Sales& Marketing - SenGenuity

There is a predominant market need for sensors that are competitively priced due to mature and established manufacturing methodologies, inherently rugged because of the implementation of advanced packaging techniques and very sensitive and intrinsically reliable. Additionally, the sensors need to be of a very small size, not influenced by magnetic fields, while at the same time contribute to emerging market needs of being able to support data and monitoring functions wirelessly, complementing additional functionalities such as low power requirements and being passively and wirelessly interrogated (no sensor power source required).

Simple device integration over the entire life cycle – the latest benefit of PA Profile 3.02 (36-37) or go here to read article version

Authors
Dr. Jochen Müller, Endress+Hauser Process Solutions AG, Leader of PNO Working Group “Marketing PROFIBUS PA”

Prof. Dr. Ing. Christian Diedrich, ifak Institut für Automation und Kommunikation e.V., Leader of PNO Technical Committee “Communication Profiles”

Version 3.02, the latest version of the successful application profile for PROFIBUS PA devices (“Profile for Process Control Devices“), targets simplified handling of fieldbus technology and provides timely answers to current questions regarding all stages of the life cycle of field devices. This article provides an overview of the PA profile extensions of recent years and describes measures for simplifying the life cycle management of PA field devices.

COMPACT HEAT TRANSFER SOLUTIONS HELP TO REFINE THE PROCESS (42-43) or go here to read article version

By Peter Rose, Alfa Laval Limited

It is somewhat disconcerting to think that, almost 10 years into a new century, we are still trying to resolve the energy problems that dogged the process industries throughout the last three decades of the previous one.