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Evonik is a global market leader in specialty chemicals. The company’s Oxeno site in Antwerp, Belgium is an onshore refinery that processes different C4 fractions.

These raw materials are brought in either through pipelines or ships and processed into a final product. The site works with hydrocarbons – organic compounds made up of only hydrogen and carbon. Chemicals are split and combined in reactors. In distillation columns, the difference in chemicals’ boiling points are used to separate them. These chemicals are fed through pipelines into the distillation columns and heated.

Hart Door Systems, the Newcastle-based specialist engineering company, has won multi-door orders for export to Russia, Hong Kong and Kuwait.

The contracts, which cover a range of Hart Doors’ commercial doors, are welcomed by the company’s managing director as “very welcome and a boost for the hard-working team”.

“There is uncertainty in the air due to Corvid19 but despite that we have worked hard on all management aspects of the business to be inclusive and proactive,” says Hart’s managing director, Nick Hart. “The team spirit is tremendous. We are determined to take every opportunity available to us.”

Organisations that use high pressure water jetting within their production or maintenance process can now ensure their operatives demonstrate competence.

The Water Jetting Association (WJA) has launched a new Competent Water Jetting Diploma that gives employers and clients greater assurance that services are being delivered safely and effectively.

The WJA, celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2020, is the UK’s trade association for the water jetting industry and the country’s largest provider of water jetting training.

Why are so many isolating switching amplifiers and pneumatic valve terminals still installed in large control cabinets to send intrinsically safe signals and pneumatic drives from Ex zoned areas?

There are numerous concepts for planning of potentially explosive systems, such as the optimization of the zoning, the reduction in size of zoned areas or the wish to run everything out of hazardous areas into a central cabinet via cable routes.

Hawke International, a division of the Hubbell Harsh & Hazardous Group, and the manufacturer of cable glands and connection solutions, is hosting a live, interactive, online Q&A on cold flow and cable gland installation.

The 45-minute session, to be held at 10.30am (BST) on Tuesday 14^th July, will be led by a panel of experts from Hawke International, who will answer questions submitted by attendees.

In the report we cover the materials, industries and equipment involved in the 205 fires, 75 explosions, 118 injuries and 8 fatalities recorded in the combustible dust incident database in 2019.

By Nancy Westcott, President of GoatThroat Pumps

Every day industrial workers transfer potentially hazardous chemicals, such as solvents, acetones, lubricants, cleansers, and acids, from large drums into smaller containers, or into machinery.  Traditionally, such potentially flammable or combustible liquids have been tipped and poured.  Today such spill-prone, VOC emitting methods are no longer considered acceptable, safe, or compliant – not when a fire or explosion can result. 

Evonik is a global market leader in specialty chemicals. The company’s Oxeno site in Antwerp, Belgium is an onshore refinery that processes different C4 fractions. These raw materials are brought in either through pipelines or ships and processed into a final product. The site works with hydrocarbons – organic compounds made up of only hydrogen and carbon. Chemicals are split and combined in reactors. In distillation columns, the difference in chemicals’ boiling points are used to separate them. These chemicals are fed through pipelines into the distillation columns and heated.

Valmet will supply automation to a gas clean-up system at Viridor’s Dunbar Landfill site in East Lothian, Scotland, UK. The first-of-its-kind system allows the successful capture of CO₂ and transforms landfill gas into transport fuels. The clean-up system will be supplied by the Dutch company CarbonOrO.

The order was included in Valmet’s orders received of the first quarter 2020. The automation delivery will take place in July 2020, and the clean-up system will be commissioned in fall 2020.

Businesses with operations in potentially explosive atmospheres may be overlooking service requirements that are essential for keeping people safe, warns Pyroban.

“At the moment, many companies with a need for explosion protected lift trucks are choosing to extend the contracts for their ATEX forklifts or rent short-term hire units,” says Justine Wren, Sales and Marketing Director for Pyroban. “They may not realise this comes with safety implications.”