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T
he Turbomachinery and Pump
Symposia (TPS; www.tps.
tamu.edu) is taking place
Dec. 11-14 at the George R.
Brown Convention Center in Houston.
This event, organized by the
Turbomachinery Laboratory, part of
the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment
Station (College Station, Tex.;
www.tees.tamu.edu), consists of a
technical conference program and
an exhibition hall, both featuring experts
from around the globe who
specialize in rotating equipment.
For the first time, TPS is co-located
with Insulation Expo USA (IEX), an
event dedicated to commercial and
industrial insulation. This year, TPS
has over 300 exhibiting companies
who will showcase a wide variety of
products and services aimed at users
of pumps, compressors and other
types of rotating machinery. The following
is a small selection of the TPS
exhibitors' offerings.
Gear pumps with flexibility
for custom configurations
The 4900 Series of gear pumps
(photo) are hydraulically balanced
and
well-suited
for demanding
chemical-processing applications.
The pump's performance characteristics
include flowrates up to
300 gal/min, viscosities from 0.5
to 1,500,0000 cP, discharge pressures
up to 2,000 psi and temperatures
as high as 850°F. The
pumps' unique design contains no
castings, but rather all machined
components allow adaptability for
custom configurations and material
selections. Additionally, the pumps
are available in either a horizontal
or a vertical configuration. Booth
1116 - Northern Pump, a division
of McNally Industries, LLC,
Grantsburg, Wis.
www.northern-pump.com
Comprehensive maintenance for
all types of rotating equipment
This company's maintenance services
for rotating equipment incorporate
both large-scale projects and
the manufacture of specific components,
as well as the provision
of fully integrated services ranging
from the design stage through final
onsite installation. These services
are aimed at turbines, compressors,
pumps, generators and large
motors - with full refurbishments
of rotor blades and coils available,
supported by in-house manufacturing
capabilities. Also available
among the maintenance offerings
are anti-fouling air-spray coatings
that provide protection against corrosion
for compressor rotors and
other similar components. The
company also provides 3-D printing
capabilities to create high-performance
components, such as turbine
blades. 3-D printing presents
expedited production compared to
traditional casting, offering reduced
lead times. Booth 2023 - Sulzer
Ltd., Winterthur, Switzerland
www.sulzer.com
These flowmeters are equipped
with intrinsically safe sensors
The Coriolis RCT1000 line of mass
flowmeters (photo) was recently
enhanced with the addition of an
explosion-proof transmitter with
intrinsically safe sensors. The hazardous-location
certification opens
up an array
of new applications
for RCT1000 flowmeters, including
chemical and petrochemical processing,
oil exploration and refining,
and a wide variety of industrial
processing applications in potentially
hazardous environments. The
RCT1000 mass flowmeter identifies
flowrate by directly measuring fluid
mass over a wide range of temperatures
with a high degree of accuracy.
For fluids consisting of two
liquids or a liquid with suspended
solids, this system can derive the
concentration and mass of each
fluid based on the density measurement.
The unobstructed, open-flow
design makes it suitable for a variety
of fluids, such as slurries and
other viscous, nonconductive fluids.
Booth 1203 - Badger Meter, Inc.,
Milwaukee, Wis.
www.badgermeter.com
An integral-gear design boosts
these air compressors' efficiency
AeroBlock (photo) is a standardized
air compressor that is designed
with integral-gear (IG) compression
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