Archive November 2015

Leading trade show for the process industries in China for the tenth time From May 9-12, 2016, AchemAsia will open its gates in Beijing. For the tenth time, experts from all over the world will meet in order to present products and processes for plant engineering and chemical processing, get information on the latest developments in the process industries, and make new contacts. With about 450 exhibitors and 13,000 participants from 23 countries, AchemAsia is the most international trade show for the process industries in China. It covers apparatus and plant engineering as well as process technology, petrochemistry, pharma and food processing, agrochemistry and laboratory and packaging techniques. Environmental technology and water treatment are also in the focus. The exhibition is accompanied by several praxis-oriented symposia on process intensification, smog prevention and clean production, water treatment, “Industry 4.0” and single-use technologies. Exhibitors can apply for a stand until November 30; the submission of abstracts for…

Bladel – Willems Stretch Hooding publishes a 32-page brochure about stretchhood machines. There are some interesting facts about Willems stretchhood machines. So there is a comparison between stretchhood, shrinkhood and stretchwrap machines. By Bosch Rexroth is the application of the latest development in the field of Servo-technique, the Indradrive MI in combination with an electromechanical EMC cylinder, as applied in the Willems stretchhood Hooder M, explained. Do you wish to receive this brochure? Request your free copy via Willems Stretch Hooding. Willems Stretch Hooding ”Premium Protection”

Rotonivo® 6000 series according to functional safety The terms ‘functional safety’ and ‘safety integrity level (SIL)’ have occurred more frequently since the publication of the international standard IEC 61508/IEC61511. Particularly in systems with hazard-causing processes, such as in chemical plants, the consideration of functional safety has become indispensable. On this basis safety-related practices, design principles and error considerations must be met in order to minimize the risk of a dangerous failure. The UWT engineers focused on this topic and redesigned the rotating paddle switch Rotonivo® RN6 series according to the normative requirements of functional safety to ensure safety functions in a risk mitigation in accordance with SIL2. Typical safety functions are overfill and dry run protection. As part of the functional safety issue, the RN6 electronics have been redesigned. This has been configured so that any failure of electrical components lead to a safe switching state of the output signal…

Capacitive measurement solutions and more For this autumn UWT GmbH together with partner Elion S.A. from Spain organized an In-company Training in Córdoba, which was specially held for machine manufacturers and builders of complete plants in the grain industry located in Southern Spain. Under the headline ”How to measure solid level with capacitive sensors“ the latest UWT product development of capacitive technologies, our RFnivo® 3000 series was highlighted. How the equipment functions, the user-friendly calibration as well as the technical opportunities of the innovative RF probe were demonstrated and could be tried under different application conditions. On that occasion the attendees were also brought closer to several other measuring principles for content measurement and level detection of different bulk solids in silos or containers. It was explained the fundamental principles, influences and applications of vibrating forks, further capacitive probes, rotating paddles and electromechanical…