Archive for June, 2013

How to Optimize Cyclone Performance When properly maintained, a well-designed cyclone will deliver the consistent performance you want. With no moving parts, electrical components, or water requirements, your cyclone may be the simplest piece of equipment in the plant. Maintenance requirements are typically mimimal. Neglecting your cyclone, however, may cause a reduction in collection efficiency […]

Aerovent Keeps the Dust Away at American Electric Power Reducing maintenance costs and nuisance shutdowns of the boiler feed water pumps was the goal of American Electric Power’s Clinch River Plant near Cleveland, Virginia. Airborne fly ash dust was being drawn into the Boiler Feed Water Pump Room. The lubricating oil vessels for the pumps […]

Seepex: Rotary pumps replace diaphragm pumps on NaOCl service Water for the 2.4 million customers in the San Francisco Bay Area source is stored in the Hetch Hetchy reservoir on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park. The East Bay Field Facilities, operated by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), uses 12.5 % sodium […]