Pneumatic and electro-pneumatic positioners
May 2013
PSV Mitech’s locally manufactured conventional range of pneumatic and electro-pneumatic positioners are modular in design making them ideal for almost any pneumatic valve application up to a 10 bar. Housed ...
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Commercial Shearing’s hydraulic valve test stand
May 2013, Commercial Shearing
Commercial Shearing recently commissioned a new hydraulic valve test stand that will enable the company to offer a service to customers by helping them achieve cost savings through elimination of unnecessary ...
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Stainless steel pneumatic components from Bosch Rexroth
May 2013, Tectra Automation
Reduce complexity, save energy: these goals can easily be achieved by positioning pneumatic components right where the action is. In wet and splash areas with an increased risk of corrosion, such as those ...
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Pneumatic technology reduces costs in water treatment plants
April 2013, Festo
Pneumatics reduces the energy requirements of electrical pumps in the wastewater treatment process. With pneumatically actuated knife gate valves from Festo, the wastewater treatment plant in Sindelfingen, ...
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Energy saving pilot valves
April 2013, Harvard Projects
The Series W60 EnergySaver valve is a 5 port, 2 position, sub-base mounted pneumatic valve that supplies full line pressure to port 4 and reduced pressure (2 bar) to port 2. This provides full cylinder ...
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Optimum control from pneumatic rotary actuators
December 2012
PSV Mitech’s pneumatic rotary actuators offer a choice of either a double crank or a scotch yoke mechanism. The double crank, for modulating control purposes, provides high run torques, low friction and ...
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Festo flexes innovation muscle with ExoHand
November 2012, Festo
Festo is continually looking at ways to enhance human and machine interaction in industrial environments, based on soft robotics. Its latest operating exoskeleton concept, ExoHand, combines human intelligence ...
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The nuts and bolts of hydraulic fracturing
October 2012, Technews Publishing
Hydraulic fracturing, fracking, is the process of creating fractures in underground rock formations to allow natural gas and oil to flow more freely into wellbores. |
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Modern trends in pneumatics and hydraulics
October 2012, Technews Publishing
There is a common perception that not much is new in the world of pneumatics and hydraulics, but scrape the surface and a different picture emerges. |
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Air-driven hydraulic pumps and oil injectors
August 2012, SKF South Africa
SKF’s new range of air-driven hydraulic pumps and oil injectors (THAP series) can mount and dismount a variety of shrink fit mechanical components, including couplings, bearings, flywheels, marine propellers ...
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Clean water with Hydac process filtration
July 2012, Hydac Technology
In municipal or industrial water treatment plants, costly drinking water is often used for general cleaning and maintenance procedures in the system. By the simple action of treating and using the water ...
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No more condensate in the air lines
July 2012, Artic Driers
Standard air driers do not always indicate the dryness quality of the compressed air entering a factory airline. Most normal driers only give the physical temperature of the compressed air in the main ...
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Pedal actuated transmitters from FSG
June 2012, Mecosa
FSG’s FS-S line of compact electronic pedal actuated transmitters is designed to actuate hydraulic control equipment: the units send electrical control signals depending on the pedal deflection. Typical ...
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Bleed design pneumatic filter regulator
May 2012, Protea Automation Solutions
Precision control of air or gas pressure is critical in applications where contaminants and corrosive environments are present. Fairchild’s new modified Model 63 filter regulator traps and drains off ...
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