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New Products
Linde Gases
A cloud-based service
for cylinder inventory
This company has introduced a new
cloud-based version of its gas cylinder
inventory intelligence service, Accura
(photo). Each time a cylinder is moved,
it is scanned and traced, and realtime
location data is uploaded to the Accura
platform. The service enables live
information on cylinder stock levels,
movement history and usage patterns,
which can be accessed through a mobile
application for smartphones and
tablets, or via a regular web browser.
Tools such as re-ordering assist and
gas-consumption reports help increase
productivity, especially for
customers requiring an uninterrupted
gas supply for process continuity. Additional
benefits of the service include
enhanced visibility of potentially hazardous
products and cylinder expiry
dates. - Linde Gases, a division of
The Linde Group, Munich, Germany
www.linde-gas.com
MilliporeSigma
Blacoh Fluid Control
Enhanced safety is among the
upgrades to these pumps
The newly upgraded mRoy line of
metering pumps includes new features
for improved safety, improved
hydraulic efficiency and easier startup
and maintenance. Specific enhancements
include a liquid-end bleed system,
making it easier to commission a
new or newly maintained pump, and
threaded elements on the housing to
assure there is no easy access to potential
moving parts. The pumps are
designed to accurately control chemical
dosing while meeting API 675, CE
and ATEX standards. The durable,
compact design enables metering
of harsh chemicals with 100-to-1
turndown capabilities and repetitive
steady-state accuracy of ±1%. -
Milton Roy, Houston
www.miltonroy.com
Faster fluid management
for biopharmacuticals
Lynx CDR connectors (photo) allow efficient
fluid management through sterile
connection, disconnection and reconnection,
providing an alternative to the
more time-consuming tube-welding
processes and costly manifold configurations
traditionally used in upstream
and downstream biopharmaceutical
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processing. The connectors provide
six sterile connections, disconnections
and reconnections from one disposable
device. Previous disposable connector
technologies allowed users to
make only a single sterile connection
per device, requiring the use of multiple
devices per unit operation. According
to the manufacturer, the Lynx CDR's
ability to perform connections and disconnections
with a wet, pressurized
flow path allows for more economic
fluid management than with connectors
that require a dry, non-pressurized
flow path. - MilliporeSigma,
Billerica, Mass.
www.emdgroup.com
Interconnect industrial
software systems of all sizes
The recently introduced Matrikon OPC
Unified Architecture (OPC UA) Software
Development Kit (SDK) is a fully
scalable toolkit that allows users to interconnect
industrial software systems,
regardless of the platform, operating
system or size. According to the company,
the Matrikon OPC UA SDK requires
the smallest amount of memory
in the industry, and runs as efficiently as
possible to leave sufficient computing
resources for correct device functionality.
The toolkit is suitable in both small
embedded environments and large
PC-based applications, providing the
scalability to enable multiple product
lines ranging from networked discrete
sensors and actuators to programmable
controllers. - Honeywell Process
Solutions, Houston
www.honeywellprocess.com
New pulsation dampener
design for AODD pumps
This company has launched a new
pulsation dampener designed specifically
for air-operated doublediaphragm
(AODD) pumps. The
AODDampener (photo) is constructed
of 316L stainless steel with
a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
diaphragm, and employs an automatic
air-control mechanism that
utilizes the existing compressed-air
source in an AODD pump system for
charging. Because there is no need
to adjust the dampener's charge
at pump startup or when there is a
change in system pressure, the AODChemiCal
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