Chemical

TL-109 – Flexible Liner Pump Cuts Scrubber Maintenance

Nonmetallic wetted parts handle 98% sulfuric acid, 50% caustic, and up to ½” solids with ease Reprinted from CHEMICAL PROCESSING Packed tower recirculating scrubbers made by Gaylord Foundry Equipment use 98% sulfuric acid and 50% caustic solutions as neutralizing agents in cold box processes to capture amine gases and sulfur dioxide. All components of the […]

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TL-112 – Fluoropolymers & Custom Engineering Solve Bromine Pumping Problems

Reprinted from CHEMICAL EQUIPMENT By Edward Margus, VP of Engineering, Vanton Pump & Equipment Corp. In the past 30 years, plastic pumps have come a long way in proving their economic and performance advantages to the CPI. An example of just how far pump designers have come in utilizing the latest advances in plastics can

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TL-115 – Thermoplastic Pumps

Reprinted from CHEMICAL PROCESSING By Brayton O. Paul, Technical Editor Plastics, alloys meet challenges of hydrofluoric acid etching Wheaton Glass doubles production without speedup, reduces rejects to almost zero. The Decora Division of Wheaton Glass Products, a division of Wheaton Industries in Millville, NJ, eliminated downtime, doubled production and reduced its output of rejected product

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TL-119 – Pumping Solder Flux

Reprinted from PUMPS AND SYSTEMS MAGAZINE Unique plastic pump distributes solder flux onto printed circuit boards Pumping solder flux that contains 5% hydrochloric acid is a troublesome service. A unique plastic pump that uniformly distributes the flux onto printed circuit boards (PCBs) is critical to the performance of the horizontal solder leveling system developed by

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TL-120 – Pump Upgrading Improves Scrubber Performance and Reduces Down Time

Reprinted from Pollution Equipment News The management philosophy behind the quality reputation of packed tower recirculatory scrubbers manufactured by Gaylord Foundry Equipment, Inc. of Independence, Missouri combines the Truman “the buck stops here” doctrine with the Gaylord belief that “building it better isn’t an option, it’s the way we do it.” This explains why, despite

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TL-131 – Eliminating Underground Waste Lines

Reprinted from Chemical Processing Les Owens, Facilities Engineer, Nalco Chemical Co., Garyville, LA John McCallion, Senior Technical Editor Non-metallic collection system ends underground waste lines Corrosion rebuffed, environment protected To eliminate any possibility of soil or groundwater contamination, Nalco Chemical Co. moved all waste handling lines aboveground at its Garyville, LA, plant in 1993. A

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TL-159 – Pump Material Selection Guide: Bromine

Reprinted from World Pumps Guide to the selection of materials for pumping the halogen bromine In this second of a series of articles on materials selection for pumping corrosive, abrasive and hazardous chemicals, George Black considers the problems presented by bromine. Dense, toxic and highly aggressive, its handling demands specialized pumping solutions, as illustrated by

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