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FLO-CS-0005 Concrete Plant Uretech Installation

The sheet was cut to size and fitted as a lining on a diversion chute coming off of a conveyor carrying dry mix cement (cement powder and sand mixed with 10 to 14mm aggregate) in to a hopper. The conveyor feeds two hoppers with half the product going to each hopper.

FLO-CS-0002 Singer Rolling Diaphragm Valve

The greater Brisbane Council region has a large network of pressure reducing valves. All of these are telemetry directed and flow modulated. Put simply they turn the system’s pressure down when demand is low and turn it up when demand is high.

FLO-CS-0001 QUU Control Valve

QUU utilise a flow/pressure modulation system management model whereby domestic and commercial water supply reticulation system pressure is increased with a respective increase in system flow demand and conversely pressure is decreased with a decrease in flow demand. This effectively negates pipe friction effects and delivers a relatively constant system pressure independent of flow demand.

INS-CS-0042 Quick Gas Condensate in Water Analysis

Often there is a need for quick field measurement of gas condensate concentration in produced water, such as when performing process optimization, water treatment verification, as well as routine process monitoring. Rigorous laboratory analysis methods such as gravimetric oil & grease measurements or gas chromatographic methods are not sufficiently sensitive to process changes and/or do not provide the required quick turnaround.

INS-CS-0041 Transportation

Oil is used extensively in all types of transportation. Oil leaks can occur during fueling and maintenance, and also during regular operation.

INS-CS-0040 Hydrocarbon Pipelines

Pipeline companies install oil collection containments in sensitive locations along the pipeline (e.g. near rivers and/or groundwater drinking wells) for oil leakage monitoring. When an ID-223 Oil Sheen Detector installed in such a containment detects oil or oil on water, it sets off an alarm in a remote location.

INS-CS-0039 Power Distribution

Utilities have hundreds of transformer substations. In each substation, there are usually several transformers. Each transformer contains a high volume of cooling oil.

INS-CS-0038 Power Generation Plants

Fuel fired power generation plants have several oil storage tanks for feeding fuel to the power units. Coal or gas fired power generation plants also have oil storage tanks to be used for start-up or as a back-up energy source.

INS-CS-0037 Hydro-Electric Power Plants

Water may carry oil leaked from turbine bearings and lubricating/cooling systems into deep sumps built under the turbines. In most plants, pumps installed at the bottom of the sump discharge the water directly to the river.

INS-CS-0036 Oil Storage Tanks with a Floating Roof

Storm water accumulated on a concave floating roof of an oil storage tank may affect its floatation, making it necessary to immediately drain the water. This is usually done through a flexible pipe, running from the floating roof down the tank, with an outlet above the ground near the bottom of the tank.