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Latest News

Just launched by market-leading sensor manuacturer im electronic are new versions o their OG Cube

design photocells designed or AC operation.

The OG Cube is both a sensor with standard M18 thread tting and a compact rectangular housing,

depending how you look at it. From whichever viewpoint, the OG Cube is a robust metal sensor,available in through-beam, retro-refective sensor and background-suppressed diuse versions. What is

new is the ability to operate without problem on normal AC mains power up to 250 V AC, with leakage

current o only 1.7 mA.

The sensor is the optimum choice or a severe industrial environment. The powerul technology in a

compact and robust housing provides high fexibility when used in adverse applications where space i s

restricted. A minimum drit when light and dark objects are detected means the sensor achieves long

ranges which remain constant even with coloured backgrounds. Furthermore, the operation o the sensor is colour-independent or grey-scale

and black values. A high repeatability as well as xed ranges or a quick set-up are more positive eatures o this sensor.

im is committed to working closely with its customers to develop products which precisely match their needs, and the company provides

expert, readily accessible technical support to help users maximise the benets they gain rom im products.

Small And Robust PhotocellsNew AC photoelectric sensors in metal housing rom im electronic

For urther inormation, contact Gemma Castle, im electronic Ltd., Eector House, Kingsway Business Park, Oldeld Road,

Hampton, Middlesex, TW12 2HD.

Telephone: 020 8213-0000. Fax: 020 8213-2228.

E-mail [email protected]

The Carter Jonas Export Award was presented to Norbar by athletics star Kriss Akabusi at the recent

Awards Gala Dinner at Oxord Thames Four Pillars Hotel.

This Export Award ollows on rom Norbars recent recognition as Business o the Year 2012 at

the Cherwell Business Awards. The company has also twice won the Queens Award or Export

Achievement.

Norbar is a amily run rm and a world leading specialist in the design, development and production

o torque tightening and measuring equipment, exporting 75% o its production to over 100 countries

worldwide. There are Norbar sales companies in Australia, China, India, New Zealand, Singapore and

the USA, but manuacturing is carried out solely in Banbury, where Norbar has been established since

the 1940s.

Neill Brodey, Managing Director o Norbar, said that winning the Export Award was an exciting event

in a landmark year or Norbar. We are marking our 70th Anniversary with a relocation o our operations to a new actory in Banbury which

is three times the size o our current premises. The project will be phased and is due or completion in 2014. It is an important stage in our

growth plans and the move is essential or us to expand our manuacturing output in order to meet increased worldwide demand or our

products.

The Carter Jonas Export Award recognises signicant export achievements over the previous 12 months, with an organisation needing to

show increased sales revenue, market share or impact o export business in the overseas markets where it operates.

Norbar Is Oxordshires Exporter O Te YearNorbar orque ools o Banbury, celebrating its 70th Anniversary this year, has triumphed at

the Oxordshire Business Awards 2012 by being voted the countys top exporter.

For urther inormation about Norbar products and services, contact:

Norbar Torque Tools Ltd, Beaumont Road, Banbury, Oxordshire, UK OX16 1XJ

Tel +44 (0)1295 270333 [email protected]

Anixter announces A-LAB now ully commissioned

Independently audited by UKAS and accredited to

UKAS/ISO17025, the acility oers a comprehensive

range o astener testing and ailure investigation

capabilities.

Commenting on the new laboratory, Richard Hawker,

vice president o technical services, enthused, One

o Anixters core values is quality and our culture is

ocused to deliver a zero deects standard, whilst

Anixter Fasteners, the global expert in the sourcing and supply o asteners and C class

components, has announced that its independent testing laboratory A-LAB in Gloucester is

now ully commissioned.

supplying over 14 billion components annually, worldwide. As part o

this commitment we have invested heavily in our technical capability.

Our UKAS accredited laboratory not only tests products that we

supply, but also provides an independent investigation and productverication service.

Tel: (+44) 1452 880500

Email: [email protected]

Web: http://www.anixter.co.uk/Fasteners


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Latest News

All pumps with dynamic seals could all oul o the dry running problem. The liquids that

these pumps move also act as the lubricant and cooling system or the pump. Friction o

the mechanical seal aces running together without lubrication or the shat packing running

against the shat without cooling by liquid seepage causes overheating, seizure and

catastrophic ailure.

Hydra-Cell high pressure pumps are dierent. They operate with hydraulically balanced

diaphragms and thereore have no dynamic seals to overheat and ail during dry running.

Wanner claims that Hydra-Cell pumps can run dry indenitely without problem.

Hydra-Cells seal-less design also enables them to pump liquids that contain abrasive

particles and other non-lubricating fuids that would cause damage to pumps with mechanical seals.

Operators too busy to notice that the eed tank is empty costs industry many millions o pounds each year. money that could be

saved by using Hydra-Cell pumps.

The design o the new bag is a major advance on existing designs with increased ltration

surace area, F8 classication to BS En779:2002 standard and a 75% reduction in stitched

seam length. This dramatically reduces the cost o manuacture and also the potential or

leakage through the seams.

New saety eatures, including an inlet non-return device to prevent dust rom escaping

during removal, allows an improved ltration standard plus other saety eatures, enabling

enable the application o the CE mark or the rst time to be used on lters o this type.

Features o the new bag include an new extended card inlet device and oam rubber

seal, which enable single handed installation and removal as well as eliminating any hand

contact with the contaminated lter suraces, whilst the olded structure makes the lter sel

supporting.

The lie o each lter can be extensive, because the bag can be easily and saely removed, inverted and shaken to dislodge collected

dust into a V shaped end pocket. Another eature is that compartment astening tags prevent uneven infation and reduce the

bellows eect which can cause dust ejection when lters are removed and compressed or disposal.

The philosophy behind the award is that everything around us started with somebody

having an idea. That idea then needs to be taken and made into reality, to orm it intosomething tangible. The scope o the award is broad so that innovation suggestions are

not limited. Director Global Marketing and Communications, Trelleborg Sealing Solutions,

Robert Zahiri, says: Open innovation is one o Trelleborgs core values and we know that

there are lots o ideas out there that can add value to existing applications today and those

in the uture.

Were not just interested in suggestions or products, technology and materials but

anything that relates to improving our business or the way we do business, or instance,

novel suggestions or online tools, manuacturing processes or logistic related services.

As well as receiving a 5,000 EUR prize, the winning idea will be converted into a tangible project i easible. iPads will be

awarded to the ideas in second and third places. Further details on the award and how to submit ideas can be ound by

going to www.seals-innovation.com.

Pumps Can Run Dry IndenitelyPumps ailing through running dry is not an uncommon problem but one that can be eliminated by using

Hydra-Cell seal-less pumps rom Wanner.

New Multi-Compartment Fume And Dust ExtractionFilter Bags From Flextraction

Flextraction Ltd, supplier and manuacturer o Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV ) products has designed a

new low cost, multi-compartment lter bag with an innovative olded construction, labyrinth, designed

to t into existing laser and solder ume extractors being used on laser, solder and other industrial ume

and dust extraction applications.

Lee Darton, Managing Director Flextraction Ltd | Telephone: +44 (0)1664 410641

Fax: +44(0)1664 480244 | e-mail: [email protected]

For more details please call us on +44 (0) 1252 816847

relleborg Sealing Solutions Is Looking For Ideas: Launching Terelleborg Sealing Solutions Innovation Award

relleborg launches the relleborg Sealing Solutions Innovation Award. As relleborg continues to pioneer

new sealing developments, ideas are being sought that can provide engineering, technology and design

solutions or today and tomorrow. Te competition is open to anyone, with prizes or the best submissions.


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Latest News

Flexicon Integrate Bulk Handling Systems at PPMA

Flexicon Europe will deliver the greatest insight into its

comprehensive range o bulk handling equipment and systems on

stand F27 at the orthcoming PPMA exhibition taking place 25-27

September 2012 at the NEC, Birmingham. Production directors and

managers looking to improve in-house eciencies in the handling

and transerence o powders, fakes and granules should make the

Flexicon stand F27 an essential scheduled stop.

On stand F27 Flexicon will introduce a number o bulk-bag delivery systems

including a combination Bulk Bag Filler with Pallet Dispenser and Powered Roller

Conveyor or sae high capacity, simultaneous lling o two bulk bags. There will

also be an opportunity to see the latest pneumatic gain-in-weight lling system

designed to automate delivery o ree-fowing bulk solids rom down-stream silosor processing lines to individual bulk bags.

This renowned specialist in bulk handling will also be eaturing alternate types o

high-speed conveying technologies including its fexible screw and pneumatic

conveyors. Flexicons fexible screw conveyor is able to move bulk material

vertically, horizontally or to any angle over, under or around obstructions.

During operation the fexible screw sel-centres as it rotates, its gentle rolling

action prevents separation o the blend throughout the entire length o the

conveyor. The Flexicon pneumatic conveying system comes into its own where

bulk material needs to be moved over longer distances, and is capable o

transporting material rom single or multiple sources such as storage vessels,

process equipment, trucks, etc., to multiple destinations.

As a manuacturer o conveying, bag dischargers and bag llers incorporating

load-cell weighing when required, Flexicon is able to deliver individual bulkhandling equipment or build combination systems designed to a specic brie,

and implement ull trials on customer material at its Kent based test laboratory to

demonstrate the viability o the solution.

Hussmann is a leader in manuacturing, selling,

installing, and servicing merchandising equipment

and rerigeration systems or customers in the retail

ood industry. The company is growth oriented andcontinually developing new products and solutions

in ood retailing or its customers.

aPrioris Product Cost Management sotware

platorm enables design engineers to quickly and

precisely determine the cost o a new part or

product design by automatically pulling geometric

and eature inormation rom a computer-aided

design (CAD) model. The sotware leverages

intelligent cost models based on the manuacturing

process, materials and the plant where a product or

part will be produced. Using this new level o cost

knowledge, manuacturers are able to make moreinormed new product design decisions and reduce

new product costs without impacting product

quality.

With aPriori, Hussmanns design engineers can

nd the optimal balance between unctionality,

perormance, quality and cost, said Stephanie

Feraday, president and CEO o aPriori. They can

also explore more design alternatives aster, which

Hussmann Corporation selects aPrioris Product Cost

Management Platorm

drives out cost earlier and results in ewer changes

later in development when making changes is

incrementally more expensive. It enables greater

innovation and protability at the same time.

aPriori (www.apriori.com), a provider o product cost management

soware solutions, has announced that Hussmann Corporation,

a manuacturer o rerigerated and rozen ood merchandising

equipment, has selected aPrioris soware platorm to help identiy

product cost savings and eliminate unnecessary costs earlier in the

product development liecycle.

aPriori www.apriori.com

Tel: +44 (0) 1932 503 300

Jacobs have 350 vacancies across all sectors o the business including; Piping

& Mechanical, Project Controls and Project Management.

Don Atkinson the ECITBs Regional Account Manager or the North East

said: There are 2.58 million unemployed people in the UK but we are seeing

unprecedented growth and investment in the engineering construction industry

- the government recently announced a guaranteed 40 billion in 500 projects

or the nations inrastructure. Now the government has taken this step more

and more engineering construction companies will be recruiting, it is an exciting

time or the industry.

Projections show that the UK will need 40,000 more skilled people by 2020. Its

our role to work with organisations like Jacobs to attract, develop and qualiy

people or a career in the engineering construction industry. The ECITB invests

about 20 million each year supporting apprentices, graduates and up-skilling

the existing workorce.

For more inormation about the ECITB go to: www.ecitb.org.uk

For more inormation about Jacobs Engineering, please go to: jacobs.com/

careers

Available or interviews:

Don Atkinson, Regional Account Manager or the North East, don.

[email protected] 01642 777 719

Wanted 350 senior engineers!350 senior engineer vacancies were up or grabs at a recruitment

event supported by the Engineering Construction Industry

Training Board (ECITB) held by the global engineering rm Jacobs

Engineering Group inc. at Middlesbrough F.C Riverside stadium

yesterday.


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Maintenance Best Practise

Justication O Planners

Christer Idhammaris a world-renowned and

multiple award winning

Reliability and Maintenance

Consultant and Guru. He

is the Founder and CEO o

IDCON, INC in Raleigh

NC, USA; A reliability and

maintenance training and

consulting company to the

Pulp and Paper Industry

worldwide since 1972.

www.idcon.com

Scheduling is here dened as thework done to decide: When to do the

work and Who will do it.

Planning shall be done beore you

schedule work.

You can say that all work is always

planned beore you do the work. That

is a act. The question is how ecient

can this be done?

I have worked with many plants where

they have no planners because the

maintenance organization was unable

to justiy a planner(s) position. Here

I like to oer some ideas on how we

successully have helped maintenance

organizations justiy more ecient

planning with planners.

With or without planners

somebody always does

planning o work otherwise

the work could not be done.

In an organization without

planners the ollowing is a typical

situation:

(Working hours 07:00 15:30)

07:00 07:30 Crew arrives and

meet with supervisor.

07:30 All have been assigned

what to do today.

E.g. Pump 20-439 does not

pump

07:30 08:45 Two mechanics

troubleshoot and nd that

bearing, seal and impeller unit

must be changed.

8:45 09:00 get rigging tools.

09:00 09:15 Morning break.

09:15 10:30 Finding parts.

10:30 11:30 Arrange rigging.

11:30 12:00 Lunch break.

12:00 14:00 Disassemble

bearing, seal and impeller unit.

14:00 15:30 Impeller too big.

Machine down to right diameter.

15:30 17:00 Install, test and

start pump.

In summary the scope o work had to

be decided by the mechanics, tools,

parts, rigging etc. had also to bedecided by mechanics, adjustment

o impeller was also decided by

mechanics. All o this is PLANNING.

The ineciency in this example

lies in that planning was done ater

scheduling and it must be done the

other way around to be ecient.

The other scenario is that the problem

with the pump was discovered during

an established inspection route a

couple o weeks beore the problem

must be corrected. A planner could

then plan the job eciently. It would

take the planner about two hours to

prepare all needed or work, arrange

or pump impeller to be adjusted etc.

Planning is here dened as dened as the work done to

decide: What work to do, How it will be done and Howlong time it will take.

In this example the maintenance

organization is very reactive and crats

people are put in a situation where

they have to plan to get the work

done. The implementation o basic

inspections will change the situation

so that a planner can plan beorework is scheduled by a supervisor and

executed by crats people. The target

is to get down to about 10% urgent

work where the situation described

in the scenario above would still be

repeated. That would ree up 190

hours/day rom crats peoples time.

To be ecient in work management

this organization would need about

three to our planners (24 32 hours/

day). This would enable crats people

to ree up 158 166 hours/day. The

number o planners is very dependent

on disciplined priorities o work,

access to an updated and accurate

bill o materials and close cooperation

with operations.

Number o

Crats people

60

% o time they

plan

50

Total planning

hours/day

240

Target

Hours/day

50

Freed up

Time. Hours/day

190

The mechanics would then do the

work in an organized way in about ve

maintenance hours instead o about

20 hours including overtime as in the

example above.

We have done hundreds o

evaluations o maintenance

organizations all over the world

and ound that without organizedinspections and planning ollowed

by scheduling o work crats people

spend 40 60 % o their time on

planning activities as given in the

example above.


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Pipe Measurement

GRTgaz operates and marketsnatural gas to the Public

Distribution Systems in France

and to consumers (industrial

customers). GRTgaz operates more

than 32,000km o steel pipelines

and 26 compressor stations and is

currently implementing the Artere

des Hauts de France II project,

which involves the installation o

pipelines linking an LNG terminal

at Dunkerque to the existing gas

distribution network in France.

As part o the preparation or this

project, GRTgaz contracted OMS

to conduct pipe measurement

surveys in two separate locations

in France, Campagne les

Wardrecques and Arques. The

objective o the measurement

surveys was to identiy the

proportion o pipes whose out-

o-roundness tolerance was

greater than 6mm (i.e. out o their

manuacturing specication), whichcould later result in pipe t up

delays and welding issues.

The surveys were carried out in

three separate mobilisations during

November 2011, February 2012

and April 2012. OMS measured a

sample o 450 pipe ends during the

rst survey, 900 during the second,

and 108 pipe ends during the

third survey. Pipe end dimensions

measured included inside diameter,

outside diameter, wall thickness

and out-o-roundness tolerance

(6mm).

For end dimensioning o pipes,

OMS utilised its own automatic

Pipe Checker laser measurement

tool, which is capable o measuring

more than 2,000 IDs and 2,000

ODs. The tool is accurate to

0.05mm and enables just two OMS

sta to measure a minimum o 200

pipe ends in a single shit. This

meant less time on site, minimising

project delays and costs or the

customer and reducing pipe t up

and welding issues.

Dr Richard Gooch, Director o

Technology at OMS commented:

The pipes were stacked outside

in sub-zero temperatures, which

presented our two inspectors

with logistical challenges. Prior

to measurements being taken,

the pipe ends had to be cleared

o snow, ice, dust and debris, as

temperatures dropped as low as

minus 15 degrees Centigrade

during the rst two surveys. We

also had to use mobile access

platorms in order to provide our

inspectors with sae access and

a stable working platorm or

measuring the higher pipes in the

stacks.

OMS inspectors maintained a

paper record o all measurements,

as well as digital measurement

data, which was archived directly to

a laptop computer and led under

the pipe number or traceability. The

measuring tools were calibrated

beore measurements were taken

and then checked or correct

calibration ater measuring. Results

rom all three pipe surveys were

presented to GRTgaz, which

indicated what proportion o pipe

ends were within the 6mm out-o-

roundness tolerance and which

were outside o this specication.

OMS completes pipe end measurementsurveys or GRgaz

Specialist pipe measurement technology company

or the oil and gas industries, Optical MetrologyServices (OMS) Ltd, has successully completed

a series o pipe measurement surveys or GRgaz,

Frances largest natural gas operator.

For more inormation on OMS,

please visit the website at www.

omsmeasure.com or telephone

01279 656038 or email hugh.

[email protected]


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Product Spotlight

Nearly 600 Rockwell Automation employees use FaciliWorks 8i Web-based

CMMS sotware or multi-site asset and calibration management. Mike

Haensgen, Project Engineer, says, Its fexible and easy to use. We looked

at other products, but FaciliWorks gives us the option o incorporating

calibration, so its completely seamless. It was denitely the right choice

or us. Available in Desktop, Server and Hosted versions and a variety o

languages, FaciliWorks CMMS is an all-in-one solution or highly ecient

acility management: track assets, preventative maintenance, work orders,

service requests, inventory, personnel and more. Contact us today or your

Free Trial o FaciliWorks CMMS sotware.

600 Rockwell Automation employees use

FaciliWorks 8i Web-based CMMS sowareIts portability and ease o use, coupled with its ull A, B and

C-Scan capability and optional TOFD capabilities, make the

Pocket UT System (along with available companion scanners

or other compatible

devices) ideal or

on-site inspection

applications. It

quickly assesses

the presence,

depth, shape and

orientation o cracks,

faws, corrosion/erosion,

delamination, and internal

anomalies in a variety o

structures, materials and

suraces.

The Pocket UT can

operate as a conventional

thickness meter (or

spot readings), a basic

faw detector with RF display and alarm gates, or in either active

B-Scan or ull C-Scan modes. The system has a bright, back-lit

LCD colour touchscreen, and an easy-to-use keypad or ast entry

o common commands and data.

MISRAS Pocket U System

MISRAS oers the innovative

Pocket U, a battery-operated, hand-

held, stand-alone, ull C-Scan data

acquisition system.

For urther product ino please visit http://www.pocketut.com/

Worldwide Headquarters

195 Clarksville Road, Princeton Junction, NJ 08550 - USA

Tel: (609) 716-4000 | Fax: (609) 716-0706


Web: www.mistrasgroup.com

Accurate Trough-Coating Metal Tickness InspectionCygnus Instruments, the leading manuacturer o ultrasonic

testing equipment, oers an extensive range o digital thickness

gauges employed the Cygnus-pioneered Multiple Echo

echnique to give accurate, error-checked measurements o

remaining metal thickness through coatings.

The range includes: the ATEX certied Cygnus 1 Intrinsically Sae or use in

potentially explosive environments; the highly versatile Cygnus 4 General

Purpose eaturing a large, bright LCD display and simple menu operation or

all industrial applications; the

small & lightweight Cygnus

2 Hands Free equipped with

a belt/harness clip, a neck

strap and an end-mounted

clear display or hands ree

operations and rope access

inspections.


Tel: +44 (0) 1305 265533

Website: www.cygnus-instruments.com


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Machinery Maintenance

The lietime o machines can be extended by

REWITECs ENHANCEMENT TECHNOLOGY,

even when the rst signs o decay appear.

REWITEC was ound in 2003 with the goalo reducing the problem o wear and tear in

tribological systems.

REWITEC Technology: surace renement with

metal silicates or Tribosystems

Customers report repeatable and highly

avorable results or the use o Rewitec surace

enhancing approach. The method uses the

existing machine lubricant to carry a silicate-

based compound to the rubbing suraces in the

equipment. Rewitec is based on the modication

o machine part suraces that, under riction,

generate a metal-silicate layer. This layer coners

ceramic characteristics to the surace enhancing

the abrasion and wear qualities o the original

metal suraces.

The active ingredient contains various silicates.

The introduced solids produce a chemical

reaction with the lubricated machine element,

such as a gear, engine cylinder and bearing race,

due to high partial pressure and temperatures

during contact. The silicate atoms o the active

ingredient coalesce with metal atoms o the

surace and compose the ceramic-like metal-

silicates layer.

Independent analysis o surace imprints using

topometric imaging suggests appreciable

change in surace roughness on worked

Conditioning And Durable Wear Protection For

All ribological Systems

Te operation and maintenance o machines

and especially o components such as gearboxes,

engines, and bearings can be simplied by

developing appropriate protection strategies.

suraces ollowing treatment. Figures 1 and 2

provide a contrast o surace proles rom a

silicon imprint o the surace o a gear tooth,

contrasting enhancement in the condition

through the coating technology.

Conclusions

The REWITEC surace renement

will prevent wear in all grease and oil

lubricated equipment. Wear processes

can be stopped with it and already

existing damage can be rozen and

made regressive too. Strengthening

the metal suraces o tribological

systems with Rewitec will increase the

lietime o machine components.

Below: Figure 1

Below: Figure 2


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Since 1960, S. Himmelstein and Company has

been a leading manuacturer o in-line rotating,

as well as reaction style, torque transducers or

process control and machinery perormance

monitoring applications.

Our laboratory oers ISO 17025 accreditedtorque calibration services or transducers rom

virtually any manuacturer. The scope o our

accreditation covers ranges rom 0.07 Nm to

450,000 Nm.

orque ransducers Save Space,

Simpliy Installation

MCR 86000V Series Bearingless Digital orque ransducers

are characterized by high perormance, short installed lengthand simple installation, or accurate measurement o torque

in rotating applications. Digital and analog outputs connect

directly to users control systems or ast response.

S. Himmelstein and Company

2490 Pembroke Ave, Homan Estates, IL 60169, USA

1-847-843-3300 | www.himmelstein.com | [email protected]

Torque Tranducers


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Product Spotlight

Maintenance engineers are exploiting the signicant cost savings and

operational lie improvements gained rom having components restored

to original equipment condition with the reassurance o NDE Clarke

Pitchlines ISO9001 accreditation and 36 years industry experience.

Trained engineers are able to survey entire applications and produce a

ree, ully itemised inspection report identiying potential cost savings and

liespan increases that can be gained rom driveshat service and repair

without any hidden costs. Re-Balancing o drive shats to certied grade

G16 or G6.3 is completed or shats running over 500rpm along with ull

cleaning, re-greasing and re-painting.

Sudden Rise in Universal Drive Sha Service & RepairCoventry based power transmission specialist

NDE Clarke Pitchline is reporting an inux

o new service and repair orders or universal

drive shas and prop shas rom customers in

industrial sectors.

Free Site Survey: Mr Ivan Luton on 02476 222272

or e-mail [email protected]

Website: www.ndeclarkepitchline.co.uk

Established over 50 years ago

in Yorkshire and now with an

additional 4000 M2 actory inChina, Haliax Fan is indisputably

a global leader in the design and

manuacture o high specication

radial ans. Haliax can supply

identical products, all built

to ISO9001 standards, rom

whichever actory is closest to

the customers site, speeding

delivery and cutting costs. Haliax oers the widest range o standard

impeller designs although the nal design is bespoke engineered

to meet the customers exact requirements by their team o highly

experienced an engineers who will provide ree consultation on the

best an design and materials or the application.

Haliax Fan is indisputably a global leader

in the design and manuacture

t: +44 1484 475123

e: [email protected]

www.haliax-an.com

O8 a New Approach to theRemoval o Oil Stains

O8, manuactured by Oil echnics Ltd in Scotland, is a

biological oil stain remover that rapidly removes and digests

oil stains rom suraces such as block work, paving stones,

concrete, orecourts, garage oors, driveways and equipment.

OT8 penetrates most porous suraces and

its unique blend o biological enzymes and

bacteria digest oil stains to completion.

Oil Technics Ltd have been providing their

customers worldwide with innovative

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The MC6 contains a ull eldbus

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Product Spotlight


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OEE

Instant OEE or any production line!Analyse OEE. Record Downtime. rack Production. Create

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Are You Driving Perormance, Or Is Downtime Driving You?

Short Interval Control (SIC) uses regular reviews o perormance data during the

shit to enable mid-course corrections and immediate xes that signicantly improve

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The core principle behind Short Interval Control is very simple: we cannot change the

past; however, we can learn rom it to improve the uture. At a practical level, SIC is

implemented as a series o short (ve to ten minute) and ocused reviews carried out

every two to our hours by ront-line engineering and operations teams. The teams

review losses and carry out actions that will improve perormance during the shit.

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During each review the SIC team completes a series o short and simple steps:

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The actions decided upon during the SIC review are then carried out by the team to

maximize production during their shit. The power o this process is that it unites the

engineering and operations teams to review perormance, agree an action area, and

to implement change on a regular and periodic basis.

Getting started is easy you just need to know your losses, and manually calculating

OEE is a great way to start. It can be done with pen and paper or with a simple

spreadsheet, and only ve pieces o data are needed (Planned Production Time,

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OEE calculations helps reinorce the underlying concepts and provides a deeper

understanding o OEE. However, there are also very strong benets to quickly moving

to automated OEE data collection with a simple monitoring system:

Downtime: The accuracy o manual down time tracking is 40 to 60% at best (based

on real-world experience across many companies). With automatic Run/Down

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Small Stops and Slow Cycles: For most equipment it is impossible to manually

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Implementing SIC lits teams rom living

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Product Spotlight

Metrics include RMSacceleration, peak

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Vibration Analysis Portable, Versatile, Intuitive

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Nondestructive Inspection O Steel Wire Ropes

Wire rope tester INTROS is designed or nondestructive inspection

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INTROS detects outer and inner broken wires, measures loss o

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The range consists o three models: the fagship

HDS 6/12 C 240v which eatures adjustable

water fow and pressure and a steam unction;

the 110v HDS 6/10 C; and entry-level HDS 5/12

C 240v.

All models in the new range eature Krchers

eco!eciency mode, which reduces uel

consumption by 20% compared to previous

models, saving on diesel costs and reducing the

amount o time needed or reuelling but without

compromising cleaning results. HDS Compact

models are also backed by a 3-year burner coil

warranty.

The new range showcases a contemporary

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combine to make a class-leading machine;

including large wheels, tilting aid and new handle

design or easy manoeuvring; clear, intuitive

controls or quick amiliarisation and start-up;

on-board accessory storage; accurate detergent

dosing that reduces waste; easy-pour detergent

and diesel tanks to reduce risk o spillages; and

proven, high quality materials.

Krchers Product Manager Je Hilton is excited

about the new range: The HDS 601 C has

been our best-selling hot water machine or over

seven years, but we are delighted with the new

HDS 6/12 C. It does everything the 601 did well,

but with simple improvements to make it easier

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Krcher Sets New Standard For Compact Hot WaterPressure Washers

Krcher, the worlds leading manuacturer o cleaning machines, has launched a

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or email [email protected].

Chilled water is a undamental part o scores

o industrial processes, rom ood processing

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through medical imaging and mechanical or

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to create chilled water, but Parker Domnick

Hunter Hyperchill water chillers are gaining

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These chillers are precision-designed to supply

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Parker Domnick Hunter Hyperchill has over 30

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Its easy to get ast and expert advice on

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Web: www.thorite.co.uk

Industrial Cleaning

Process Systems


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Compressed Air

A number o dierent brands o dryer have been

tried and tested on site with limited success.

Some dryers actually ailed in less than 6

months.

BEKO TECHNOLOGIES looked at the PH

value o the condensate and the acidic ambient

conditions. From this a tailor-made DRYPOINT

RA 600 solution was oered, where all the

internal copper piping and condensate discharge

points o the dryer were coated with a special

anti-corrosion treatment. The rst RA dryer sold

to KP Foods has been installed on site now or

nearly 4 years without a single ailure. This was a

major actor in the choice or the new dryers or

the Hoops compressor room location.

Pressure drop was also a major actor as well as

pipe work distribution. With this in mind BEKO

were invited to tender or the whole turnkey

project which included removing all the old

equipment, supply and installation o new dryers,

lters and pipework. BEKO successully won

the order or the complete turnkey project and

in conjunction with Direct Air and Pipework o

Coventry the whole installation was carried out

in less than 48 hours. The installation included

a complete new 6 maniold, 4 drops into the

2 x DRYPOINT RA 600 dryers and 2 x Flanged

lters. Timing was essential as the compressed

air went o at 2pm on a Saturday and had to be

installed and running by 8pm on a Sunday.

The installation was successully carried out on

Beko echnologies solves KP Foods drying problems.

KP Foods, a part o the United Biscuits group have had issues in

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time. KP Foods are now reaping the rewards in

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RA range.

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At the plant steel plate up to 12m x 3m is cut

using a large ESAB plasma-cutting machine.

Western Air Ducts installation extracts the

umes and dust through slots in the machine

bed, into an under-foor duct rom where they

are carried outside the building, where the air

is ltered and cleaned beore being emitted to

the outside air via a chimney.

The plasma process generates sparks. In

order to avoid these reaching the air lters

(which are themselves re-retardant) Western

Air Ducts installed its unique Flashback Box

between the extract duct and the lters.

The lters are replaced annually, but during

the intervening time they are rereshed by

a reverse pulse mechanism. One o the

eects o this process is that the airfow varies

as air is extracted more rapidly through the

cleaned lters. Western Air Ducts thereore

incorporated an in-line device to measure the

fow rate, together with a system o dampers,

which can be opened and closed to exactly

Western Air Ducts - Breath o Fresh Air or ArcelorMittal

Extracting the dust, umes and sparks generated by

plasma cutting poses specic problems, and it was these

that Bob Kilby, Head o Health and Saety/Quality and

Environment at ArcelorMittals plant in Birkenhead,

sought the expertise o Western Air Ducts to solve.

regulate the airfow. As Bob explains; Being

able to regulate airfow enables us to ne-tune

the system to operate at optimal eciency.

Above: ESAB Suprarex installation similar

to that at ArcelorMittal

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Thermal Imaging

Fluke Oers Entry Level Termal Imager At Reduced PriceIdeal or electrical applications- only 1650

Fluke, the global leader in handheld electronic test

and measurement equipment, is oering its entry-level

Fluke i9 Termal Imager, targeted at electricians and

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orders placed beore 30th o September - 1650 instead

o 2090. Rated to IP54, the rugged Fluke i9 is ideal

or electrical applications, being extremely robust and

optimised or work in harsh environments.

This amazing special oer price also

includes the Fluke SmartView sotware

or generation o proessional reports.

The Fluke Ti9 Thermal Imager,

with 160 x 120 pixel resolution,

delivers clear, crisp images to

nd problems ast, revealingthe smallest details with the

widescreen ormat colour LCD

display. Featuring an intuitive

three-button menu, users simply

point the instrument rom a sae

distance and pull the trigger to

capture the ull image.

That saves valuable time and greatly

increases the speed o inspecting,

repairing and veriying electrical and

electromechanical equipment. Over

1200 ull radiometric images can be

captured on its removable SD memory

card.

The Fluke Ti9 helps extend equipment

lietime, avoid electrical res, and validate

installation, repair and maintenance

procedures. It can detect problems in

a wide range o equipment including

The Fluke Ti9 can be purchased

rom Fluke authorised distributors.

For more inormation about all Fluke

products, or to order the Fluke 72 page

booklet Introduction to Thermography

Principles visit www.fuke.co.uk

switchgear, motor control centres and

lighting systems. Even small temperature

dierences are visible in components like

transormers, panels, controls, uses,

receptacles and bus bars. Hot spots

regularly indicate an imminent problem or

equipment ailure in electrical equipment.

Inrared thermometer measurements show

only a single hot spot at a time, which is

not enough or an accurate evaluation.

Thermal imagers show the ull picture

instantly, with dierent colours representing

dierent temperatures.

The Fluke Ti9 incorporates a thermal

imager lens with adjustable ocus

and detects a wide -20C to +250C

temperature range. There is a 23 x

17 viewing angle and a minimum ocus

distance o 15cm. Small details are visible

in a perectly ocused image. The IP54-

rated Fluke Ti9 resists dust and water, andwithstands a drop test o 2 metres.

Fluke SmartView sotware, eaturing

3D imaging capability and options or

optimising and organising thermal images

and creating proessional reports, is

included with the product as well as a 2GB

SD memory card, a rugged hard carry

case, a sot transport bag, an adjustable

hand strap (or right- or let-handed use),

a rechargeable internal battery, AC power

supply/battery charger (including mains

adapters)


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Thermal Imaging

A FLIR T425 thermal imaging camera supplied

by Bedord-based Thermascan has taken time

out rom its usual predictive maintenance and

condition monitoring duties to provide artistic

images o British elite athletes.

The thermographer in this instance is Penny

Crots, a talented artist whose work was recently

shown at the Expo Fine Art Gallery at Heathrow

Terminal 5. Over the last year Penny has met

several athletes at the top o their game to

create a body o artwork that orms a legacy or

Britains sporting endeavours and achievements

during 2012.

Penny Crots trained at the prestigious art

school, Central St. Martins. It was her previous

training as a nurse however that red her interest

in the artistic representation o the human body.

She ound that thermography has given her a

unique way o expressing this interest and her

Gold Medal TermographyWe all know the application scope or thermal

imaging is expanding all the time but here is a newaddition that is particularly topical.

subjects incredible athletic commitment.

The paintings are acrylic on canvas and based

on thermal images o rowers, Mark Hunter MBE

and Steve Williams OBE, the tri-athlete Nick

Beer and the GB sailing team.

FLIR Systems Ltd., 2 Kings Hill

Avenue, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent

ME19 4AQ

Tel: +44(0)1732 220011.

Fax: +44(0)1732 843707.



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Thermal Imaging

ransmission Values: What o Look For...In Order o Look Trough!

By Joe DeMonte

ASN/PdM Termal Inrared Level III

Purpose:

The purpose o this paper is to educate on the subjects o:

1. Transmission values or inrared windows: Does a high value equal more

accuracy? Or, is knowing the percentage o transmission more important?

2. Transmission values or inrared windows: How does a grill eect

transmission? Will it make quantitative thermography null and void?

ested Components:One electrical lug and one hot plate heated to steady state conditions. One

polymer inrared window with a mesh style saety guard and one crystal calcium

fuoride (CaFl) inrared window. One generic plastic garbage bag. One stainless

steel cup lled with water and heated to steady state conditions.

Tools Used During the Test: FLIR E50 thermal imager, thermometer

Denitions:

Transmission, transmissivity: The ability o light in the specied wavelength to

pass through an object. Example: visible light through a pane o glass, LW

inrared light through a polymer inrared window.

Thermography: is a technology that creates and analyzes images by detecting

the heat radiating rom an object.

Quantitative Thermography: Analyzing thermal images by acquiring temperature

values. Qualitative Thermography: Analyzing thermal images without acquiring

temperature values.

Steady State Conditions (Heat Transer): When heat transer is occurring while

the temperature o the objects involved do not change.

LW/Long Wave/8-12um: The waveband o most modern inrared maintenance

cameras. The metric unit micrometer/micron/um is used to measure the

wavelength.

Non-Gray/Selective Radiator: Most substances and materials will not keep

the same value o transmission, refection, and emission throughout the light

spectrum. This may result in dierent thermography cameras obtaining dierent

results when measuring the same material.

Introduction:

As an active thermographer and instructor or Inrared courses, Ive always

considered inrared windows as an exciting technology. In the 90s, there

werent many choices when talking about IR windows. Nowadays, we haveseveral. I will cover two major materials used in modern inrared windows:

polymers and fuoride crystals. Both have value or the particular band width

(reerred to as LW/Long Wave/8-12um) o inrared cameras that 99% o the

thermographers use during condition based monitoring.

Recently, I have been made aware o a rumor that polymer windows axed with

a mesh style saety guard cannot be used or accurate quantiable temperature

measurements. I had not considered this as an issue during my role as a

thermographer or heard o it as an issue rom the 100s o electricians that ran

our inrared program or TEGG Corporation around the globe. I decided that I

had better double check our methods and see or mysel i I had been doing

things incorrectly or years.

est Parameters

In order to measure transmission through a material, I will propose two

procedures. We have to remember that the results o the tests may not apply

to other cameras even with the same wavelength lters. This is primarily due to

inconsistencies o detector response curves across the waveband being used

and the non-gray selective radiator eects o most materials in that waveband.

Our transmissivity procedures:

How to Measure Transmittance with a radiometric (temperature measuring)

thermal imager:

Set your thermal imager up to measure apparent temperatures with e = 1.00

and distance (i you have that setting) to 0. Also, external window optics should

be o or 100%.

Heat up a metal target with a high emissivity target (electrical tape will work)

axed to it to a steady state condition. I would recommend at least 30C aboverefected temperatures.

Measure and set refected apparent temperature.

Measure target without the IR window. Note the temperature.

Measure target with window in place.

6. Adjust emissivity to set the camera temperature equal to the original temp

without the window. This is NOT the emissivity measurement o your window.

We are using the cameras emissivity as a loss calculation and calculating

the losses through the window. The emissivity value you arrive at to reach the

original directly viewed target temperature equates to the transmission o the IR

window.

OR

For cameras that have EXTERNAL OPTICS TRANSMISSION, this procedure is

a little bit more accurate. Heat up a metal target with a known emissivity target

axed to it. About 30C or more above refected temperature is desirable.

Measure the actual temperature o the target. Example: with electrical tape,

set e = 0.95 and measure and set Refected Apparent Temperature. Note the

temperature.

Measure target with window in place.

Adjust external window optics temperature to the temperature o the window

(the window is best kept at room temperature).

Adjust external window optics transmission until you reach the actual

temperature o the target as measured without the window in place. The value

o transmissivity that you arrive at to achieve the original temperature is the

transmissivity o the IR window.


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Question 1:Does a high value equal more accuracy? Or, is knowing the

percentage o transmission more important?

I will compare the results o a household garbage bag to a industrial strength

polymer inrared window and a crystal window. The polymer window should

have a lower transmission value due to the thickness/type o polymer and the

reinorcing saety grill. The garbage bag should be relatively high. The crystal will

be lower than the garbage bag.

Here are the results:

From the tests above, the 3 round polymer inrared window with a saety grid

has a transmissivity o 0.46. Applying that result to an entirely dierent target

and checking that result to a contact thermometer, we nd the ollowing:

My initial ndings were that it appears we can use the known transmission

value, even though it is only 46%, and continue to perorm quantitative

thermography. Will this be the transmissivity value that all inrared cameras

measure through this style IR window? Absolutely not! Perhaps this was the act

that led to some o the conusion in the industry.

On to the plastic garbage bag....

The test on the single ply garbage bag with the 90C target shows a

transmission measurement o 0.83 or 83%. We will change out the target to a

metal cup with heated water and check the results with our same thermometer

or accuracy.

It appears that the original value o 0.83 transmission or the garbage bag holds

ater looking at a dierent temperature object. It is a high value o transmission,

but doesnt give us any more accuracy when perorming thermography over the

lower value (0.46) o the polymer/mesh window. In other words, know the value

o your window with regards to your thermal imager and dont worry about how

high the value is.

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I will now test the crystal window. It has a viewing diameter o 68mm with a

thickness o 2mm. Using the same two heated targets, here are the results:

The crystal window has a transmission percentage o 0.43 or 43%. A little lower

than the polymer stacked with the mesh on this temperature target. I will now

look at the cooler target, the hot water in the stainless steel cup with electrical

tape axed to it.

At a transmission o 0.45 or 45%, we do obtain a slightly dierent value o

transmission in order to match the directly viewed result.

Fluoride crystals are very non-gray to the majority o thermal inrared cameras

used by thermographers (a concept that has been documented in many

papers). This means that the temperature o the viewed object will cause

the perceived transmission through the crystal to change when using long

wave inrared cameras. When we are trying to measure the temperature o an

unknown object, such as ound inside electrical cabinets, we cannot know the

exact transmission value to use in the camera. Because the actual value o

transmission, not how high the value is, controls our quantitative thermographic

accuracy, we normally cannot achieve accurate measurements or accurate

dierentials between two objects through that type o material.

I will show one more example o a high temperature target and the polymer and

crystal to urther the experiment on transmissivity values.

I I dial in the original 46% transmission value or the polymer/mesh window, I

get the correct temperature (within the IR camera manuacturer specication).

The crystal is a bit o and will continue to be urther away rom the actual

temperature as the objects temperature changes.

Question Number 2:

How does a grill/mesh aect transmissivity? Can I get accurate

results through an IR window that has a saety grill/mesh

installed?

So ar, our experiment has used a polymer window with a grill/mesh. When the

inrared camera is place up close to the mesh, the camera can ocus beyond

the mesh and was able to obtain consistency. I personally use the area max

measurement unction when viewing targets through IR windows and directly

viewed targets to keep consistency. Some instances dictate that I use a single

point temperature spot, and I preer inrared cameras that can do both or

fexibility.

To perorm this experiment, lets start by considering the grill. In my experience

looking through inrared windows installed in electrical cabinets, I nd that the

best/widest eld o view is when the inrared camera is close to the window.

The mesh, when installed, will be out o ocus and not look like a mesh on

the image. It will aect transmissivity values by lowering them, but again, we

are not so much concerned with a lower value. Even when using a non-mesh

window such as a crystal, normal operation will have the inrared camera closer


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to the window or a wider eld o view into the cabinet (see the ollowing visual

example). There is no need to have dierent procedures between the two types

o windows (mesh or non-mesh) based on this consideration.

I also want to document the eects

o viewing angle on transmission

when regarding mesh and non- mesh

windows.

My simple setup contains an electrical

component heated on a hot plate

or steady state purposes. The IR

polymer window with the saety grill/

mesh is installed into the side o a

box. It is approximately 8 away rom

the electrical component (outside the

minimum sae distance o 4 or 5kv

cabinets).

The same concept using a crystal window without a saety mesh/grill:

It appears that we have near identical eects rom both the polymer with mesh/

grill and crystal windows. It may be the oreshortening o the angle to the grill or

the polymer window, and it may be due to the increased thickness o the crystal

being viewed through or the crystal window. Another possibility is that the

overall Emittance o the target will change with angle and or the electrical tape,

it will lower as you approach 45 and beyond towards parallel with the surace.

Summary:

In the eld, a thermographer is always going to move the

camera slightly to obtain the best picture. I would always

recommend this regardless o whether you are looking

through a transmissive material or directly at the target.

Consider your inrared window materials careully and

check your sources. I have personally heard seasoned

thermographers make statements that a grill or mesh will

not allow or accurate temperatures. Or that the higher

the transmission, the better the window. In our study, we

have determined that both o the tested material windows

have similar transmission values or our specic inrared

camera (2011 FLIR E50). Te crystal window will vary

the transmission as the temperature o the object changes.

I a thermographer decides to back the camera away

rom the inrared window in his/her surveys, the mesh

may not aect the transmission that the camera sees

through the window. Te transmission values will be

much higher (again, knowing the value is important, not

how high the value is), but are still measureable as long as

the openings o the mesh are not smaller than the overall

IFOVmeasureable (also known as Spot Size Ratio) o

your specic camera. I would not recommend this only

because o the much smaller overall eld o view you will

have during your inspections versus being close to the

inrared window.


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Dew Point Hygrometer

It is the smallest and among the lightest instruments

on the market which is capable o measuring dry dew

points precisely to -90C (0.1ppmv) with no need or

additional, external cooling equipment. Combined with

its 0.1C accuracy this also makes it the most cost-

eective as well as convenient hygrometer in its class.

Chilled mirror hygrometers have excellent accuracy and

repeatability because they base their measurements

on the actual ormation o condensed water or rost

on a mirror surace. This is a primary characteristic o

moisture so will not drit over time, as can occur with

calculated or inerred variables.

The S8000 RS has a sophisticated new optical system

that detects very small changes in moisture condensed

on the mirror surace. This guarantees high sensitivity

and ast response when measuring low-dew points. As

with all Michell chilled mirror hygrometers, the S8000

RS is available with UKAS accredited calibration

traceable to NIST.

With a high-contrast LCD touch-screen, the S8000 RS

is easy to operate and interrogate. USB or Ethernet

connections are supplied as standard to enable remote

operation and data logging via a PC or network.

The robust overall design and practical eatures like

alarms make the S8000 RS Reerence hygrometer a

multi-purpose tool or a wide range o applications in an

industrial environment as well as or calibration acilities.

Michell supplies precision hygrometers and is the

largest dew point sensors manuacturer in Europe.

Their reerence chilled mirror hygrometers, such as

the S8000 RS, are constantly in use within their own

actory or dew-point sensor manuacturing, and their

24/7 calibration acility and service. Michells customers

benet rom the robustness and 40 years o expertise

built into each chilled mirror hygrometer design.

Key applications or the S8000 RS include:

Reerence instrument or calibration laboratory.

Compact, light and needing no additional

cooling it is ideal or small in-house calibration

laboratories.

Veriying the purity o industrial gases. Its ast

response and high sensitivity enables quick

measurements to be taken.

Ensuring the dryness o controlled industrial

environments.

New Fast and Easy to Use Chilled Mirror Hygrometer or Low

Dew Point Reerence Measurements in the Lab and Industry

Michells new S8000 RS has been designed to provide undamental, dependable

measurements in a range o industrial applications where highest precision o the

dry gas measurement is critical and the ease o use is essential.

The TopTherm range o packaged chillers, which

is suitable or a cooling medium o water, are

intended or internal applications and include

wall-mounted, roo-mounted or foor-standing

and modular variants.

Rittals TopTherm wall-mounted chiller, which

may be installed directly to an enclosure, has

a cooling capacity o up to 4kW, whereas

the roo-mounted or foor-standing variant is

available with a slightly larger cooling output o

up to 6kW. Finally, the modular chiller, which is

capable o removing up to 40kW o heat, utilisesthe renowned TS 8 rame so that it can be

seamlessly integrated into a suite o enclosures.

The unique construction o the TopTherm

modular chiller allows the simple replacement o

rerigerant and hydraulic modules. In the event

o ailure, modules o the same type can be

exchanged quickly. Those o dierent capacities

can be substituted should a greater amount o

cooling be required, eectively making it possible

to upgrade the chiller in situ rather than replace

it in its entirety.

Packaged chillers rom the Rittal foor-standing

enclosure range are suitable or internal or

external applications and or a cooling medium

o either water or oil. The robust, yet highlyadaptable platorm ensures that there is a

solution rom this range that can satisy most

project specic requirements.

Rittal Chillers For Te Industrial MarketRenowned more or their enclosure cooling equipment

in the eld o climate control, Rittal also supply chillers

to the industrial market.

Rittal chillers can be used to supply chilled

water not only to the cold plates, wall-mounted

and roo-mounted ranges o air/water heat

exchangers available rom Rittal, but also to

the multitude o industrial processes or which

cooling is essential. All Rittal TopTherm chillers

are able to accept either a 50Hz or 60Hz supply,

resulting in global applicability.

Industrial Cooling


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Shows & Exhibitions

2012 set to be largest ever

UK composites event

Ian Stone, Managing Director o show

organisers UK Tech Events comments:

Year on year we are seeing very strong

growth in both the volume o speciality

exhibitors rom the UK and overseas

as well as expanding and more diverse

industry attendee groups. With the show

seeing major growth in both its ootprint

and the number o exhibitors, the 2012

composites show foor is already attracting

a major infux o new international and

domestic exhibitor names, including,Azelis Composites, AIM Composites,

LAMILUX-Heinrich Strunz, PECOLIT

Composites, Matrix Composite Materials,

Axson Technologies, Ipeco Composites,

Zoteoams, Natural Perormance Materials,

Cygnet Integrated Solutions, Mirka

(UK), Cutwel, Permabond Engineering

Adhesives, Hydromar, Engis UK, Intrinsys

to name but a ew.

With an increase in international exhibitors

signalling a growing desire to reach the

UKs developing composites market, plus

a high proportion o repeat exhibitors

increasing stand space or larger displays,

it is likely that the show will see total

composites exhibitor numbers reach 200+,

representing an impressive 35% growth.

Stone continues: The demand across

product design and development

teams or lightweight, high perormance

composite materials solutions is growing

at an unstoppable rate and the show is,

uniquely and importantly, positioned to

showcase the diversity o composites

materials, design, processing and

abrication capability as well as supporting

inrastructure available to harness or

the successul execution and delivery o

current and uture composites engineering

programmes

Growing strategic input rom

CompositesUK

Refecting the growing importance o the

show as the UK composite industrys

biggest networking and technology transer

opportunity, CompositesUK, headline

industry partner or the event, will in

2012 host their annual Composites UK

awards alongside the event on the rst

evening, acknowledging key advances and

innovation made by UK companies over

the past 12 months. Supporting the 2012

nominated awards, the show foor is to

eature a showcase o award nominated

composites engineering excellence with

supporting project insight presentations,

as part o the two day open orum

programme. Furthermore, CompositesUK

are again committed to hosting a

selection o on the show foor open

technology sessions, drawing on expert

contributions rom across the industry in

CompositesUK o Host Session On NonDestructive esting O Composites At

Te NEC Tis NovemberBuilding on the success o last Novembers

(2011) Composites Engineering show,

held at NEC Birmingham, the 2012 event

promises urther signicant growth and

to again bring together all sides rom this

rapidly expanding technology sector, around

the event which will this year be moving to

Hall 1 at the NEC on 7-8 November, 2012.


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processing innovations, new technology

and developing applications not least

in addressing the latest processes and

capability related to non destructive testing

o composite materials.

In parallel will again be the CompositesUK

hosted daily UK composites industry

overview sessions highlighting advances in

and priorities or UK composites capability,

crucial by sector market outlooks,

skills outlook and latest developments

in the UKs composites industry support

structure including the launch o the

UK Composites Hub, the UKs integrated

inrastructure support harnessing the

collective resources o the National

Composites Centre (NCC), Composites

Skills Alliance , and CompositesUK. Dr

Sue Halliwell, Secretary or CompositesUK

observes: Over the past ew years,

Composites UK has worked closely with

Composites Engineering to promote and

raise the prole o the UK Composites

industry and ensure the show continues

to develop and grow to refect our

homegrown capability and expertise.

The 2012 show promises to be bigger

and better than ever and sends a clear

statement that the UK composites industry

is open or business.

Part o the growing Advanced

Engineering UK group o

events, including new UK

Automotive Engineering show

As part o Advanced Engineering UK

group o events, one o the astest

growing B2B industry events in the UK,

the 2012 Composites Engineering Show

will again co-locate alongside the UK

Aero Engineering show, providing perect

synergy, given the enormous importance

o the aerospace composites market in

the UK. This was refected in 2011 with

excellent numbers o attendees rom

major players including Airbus, GKN, BAE

Systems, Bombardier, EADS Astrium, GE

Aviation, Rolls Royce, Honeywell and many

more.

Furthermore 2012 sees the introduction

o the UK Automotive Engineering Show

into the Advanced Engineering UK group

o events. This addition will support

a urther exciting synergy, driving an

exponential rise in the numbers o volume,

niche and motorsport engineering teams

attending the show and building on the

already impressive 2011 CompositesShow automotive and motorsport

sector attendance. With an attendance

approaching 7,000 in the 2011 group

o events, and an anticipated 9,000+

attendees or 2012, the Composites

Engineering Show is bracing itsel or

another record turnout and to consolidate

its credentials as THE meeting point or all

sides o the UK composites industries.

est Measurement &

Inspection Focus

Another key growth area at this years

Advanced Engineering UK group o events

has been testing, measurement and

inspection - so much so that there are now80+ exhibitors involved in this area on the

show foor, together with a dedicated seam

o related technical presentations over the

2 days o the event, aimed at all parts o

the testing liecycle, including Maintenance/

atermarket, and MRO teams. The Test,

Measurement and Inspection Focus spans

all 4 co locating events and is supported

by BiNDT, Chartered Quality Institute, Mira,

and QMT magazine

For more inormation on the

Advanced Engineering UK group

o events held this November

7-8 in Hall 1 o the NEC,

Birmingham - visit http://www.

advancedengineeringuk.com


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Energy Management

Wigan Inrmary is a redeveloped and modern

District General Hospital situated in Wigan. The

hospital, part o the Wrightington, Wigan and

Leigh NHS Foundation Trust, provides a base

or emergency and acute work. Steam is used

by the hospital or a wide range o services

including the various plant rooms heating & hot

water heat exchangers, space heating, AHU

batteries and humidication.

Prior to the installation o the GEM steam traps,

the hospital ound that a percentage o its steam

traps were ailing each year. Thermal Energy

International conducted a survey o the hospitals

steam traps using an inrared thermometer. It

ound that two percent o the traps had ailed

to open, allowing large amounts o expensive

steam to be wasted, one percent had ailed and

was partially open allowing smaller amounts

o steam to pass and a urther two percent

had ailed and closed which was causing the

condensate to back-up and create wet steam,

corrosion problems and water hammer. It was

calculated that Wigan Inrmary was losing a total

o over 200,000 kWh per year rom steam loss

alone.

Wigan Inrmary Expected o Save Over 48,000

A Year Following Installation O Gem Steam raps

Te Royal Albert Edward Inrmary in Wigan, better known as

Wigan Inrmary, anticipates it will avoid spending 48,847 per

annum in uel and maintenance costs ollowing the installation o

Termal Energy Internationals GEM venturi orice steam traps.

A total o 157 GEM steam traps have been installed throughout

Wigan Inrmarys site providing the hospital with a projected

payback in just under two years on steam savings, increased

efciency, ailed traps, maintenance and Carbon Oset Value costs.

According to research carried out by Queens

University, Belast, GEM steam traps have

been proven to be the most ecient desi

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