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		Valve Magazine: Control Systems, Controllers and Control Valves - What's the Difference? Control systems...controllers...control valves: the names are so similar, and their functions are so intertwined. It is no wonder that many in the process control world are unclear on the distinctions between these three tools, the role each plays, and how they work together.


		Forecourt Trader: Top pumps: We look at new pump technology including media screens and paypump. Many of the major grocery multiples have already adopted paypump on their forecourts, but for smaller, dealer sites it seems this technology would need very careful consideration. However Andrew Banks, head of petrol and unattended at Verifone, reckons the payment solution can work almost anywhere: “Some forecourts might want to try one pay@pump first as a fast lane or a queue buster – to give their customers a choice at very busy times of day – like 5pm or 7:30am,” he says.


		Valve Magazine: Severe Service Valves Respond To New Pressures. For a category that has become so important in the world of valves and piping, it’s unusual that there doesn’t seem to be a hard-and-fast definition for “severe service.” Bill Flowers, director, Hydrocarbon Industry, Fisher Global Industry Sales, defines severe service valves as: “10 inches and larger, 500 to 600 pounds, anything that requires a special trim to handle the process conditions, whether that’s anti-cavitation trim, anti-noise trim, high-pressure drop trim.”


		CT2 Compressor Tech: The Impact of Emission Standards on Natural Gas Engines The clock is ticking on new rounds of emissions regulations that loom large in their potential impact on domestic stationary reciprocating engines and energy production. Lynn Palmer, vice president of engineering, and Lloyd Beauchamp, vice president of marketing and service for Dresser Waukesha, provide their perspective on what this means for the engine manufacturers and the owners and operators who use engines in natural gas production.


		Pipeline and Gas : Pilot-operated safety relief valves drive process efficiency. Pipeline operators worldwide rely on pilot-operated safety relief valves (POSRVs) to prevent potentially catastrophic overpressure situations and protect pipelines, compressors and other equipment; the oil or gas being transported; the environment, and people. While this vital safety function is well understood, many pipeline operators are not aware of how POSRVs can also drive process efficiency.


		Power magazine: Design of Experiments Reduces Time to Market Dresser Waukesha is a familiar name associated with large, gas-fueled stationary engines for power generation and gas compression applications around the world. Each new project location presents a unique set of site variables that must be taken into consideration—such as fuel quality, air/fuel ratio, temperature, humidity, altitude, load, and exhaust after-treatment—when providing the customer a meaningful performance guarantee. To fully characterize every engine option with such a wide range of fuel types and quality and in widely varying environmental conditions across the globe is an impossible chore.


		Penn Energy: Webcast: Increased Efficiency in Power Generation: A Breakthrough in Gas Engine Lubrication Focusing on the importance of energy efficiency whilst maximising reliability and productivity in the natural gas engine sector, the Mobil Industrial Lubricant and PennEnergy.com webcast looks at how new lubrication techniques and products are paving the way for increased competitiveness and energy efficiency in the industry. The webcast presents key consumer research findings from a recent survey of energy industry experts and invites guest speakers from 2G and Waukesha, as experts on engine installers, to offer their opinions on what these new developments will mean for Equipment Builders and the types of savings that can been made to a company’s bottom line.


		Pipeline and Gas Journal: From "Colonel" Drake to the Marcellus Shale Gas Play - Transmission Development Gamechanger is just one of the compelling terms being used to describe emerging shale gas plays across North America. In light of the redhot intensity surrounding the largest of these, the Marcellus Shale Gas play, now recognized as the largest unconventional natural gas reserve in the world — with estimated recoverable reserves of at least 489 Tcf — it seems particularly relevant to remember the Greek philosopher Heraklietos and his axiom, that change is the only constant in the universe.


		2010 Diesel and Gas Turbine Worldwide: The World's Best Power Plants A Dresser Waukesha gas engine gen-set at a large pig farm in the Philippines is an essential component in a system that is making the most of a renewable energy resource - generating energy cost savings and reducing the damaging effects of greenhouse gases.

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