Proactively Identify and Address Valve Issues with Flowserve RedRaven

RedRaven advanced IoT condition monitoring assists plants in monitoring valve performance and proactively identifying and addressing problems before they become failures. 

Used in conjunction with existing digital positioners or additional sensors, RedRaven notifies you when a valve deviates from normal operating conditions. With real-time performance data and analytics, you can immediately prevent valve problems from escalating into catastrophic failures.

Flowserve valve conditioning monitoring programs make it simple to avoid valve failures, increase uptime, reduce maintenance costs, and improve safety across all of your locations. 

Unlike other IoT offerings, RedRaven offers a comprehensive approach. RedRaven is a complete solution that includes sensors, software, communication technology, analytics, and expertise. It is a complete solution that will assist you throughout your IoT journey.

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Important Covid-19 Early Warning Wastewater-based Epidemiology Webinar January 12, 2022

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Extensive research has shown that people begin shedding the SARS-CoV-2 virus in their stools almost immediately after becoming infected. The virus's genetic material makes its way into the vast wastewater collection network, where it can be detected and quantified up to a week before individuals test positive in clinics, using modern sampling and analysis techniques. Public health administrators can use this early warning characteristic to control the spread better and prevent further damage by analyzing virus concentrations in specific facilities such as nursing homes and college dorms and selected neighborhoods or entire communities. This tested wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) approach depends on installing properly designed sewage surveillance systems in the study areas. In this webinar, Teledyne ISCO's Business Development Manager, Kaushal Trivedi, and Aquasight's CEO, Mahesh Lunani, discuss how to quickly develop and deploy a community-based underground sewage surveillance program for COVID-19 outbreak detection, including best practices for wastewater sampling, lab analysis, and the immediate delivery of actionable information to local public health officials and administrators. 

Covid-19 Early Warning Wastewater-based Epidemiology Webinar Topics

• Wastewater sampling site selection
• Sampling instruments - selection and installation
• Sample optimization and SCADA control
• Sample preservation and transport
• Lab testing and minimum detection levels
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Predictive analytics and advanced decision support tools including rapid identification of hot spots and high-risk areas

From this 45-minute presentation plus interactive Q&A session, attendees will gain valuable insight into community-based sewage surveillance, how to rapidly set up and operate an effective monitoring and detection system, and ensure it is well integrated for optimum public health actionability.

For more information about Teledyne ISCO product in Florida, contact Instrument Specialities, Inc. Call 407-324-7800 or visit https://isisales.com.

AUMA Electric Actuators for Critical Flow Control, Safety, and Security in the Water Industry

Potable water production, distribution, sewage treatment, and disposal are core tasks of modern water management. Drinking water abstraction, distribution, sewage disposal, and purification are fundamental prerequisites for infrastructure development. Security of supply is crucial for the modern water industry, and valves and actuators play a critical role in water management.

From individual actuators for municipal sewage treatment plants to major projects combining several hundreds of units, from the small butterfly valves and ball valves to weirs several meters high, valve actuators provide critical flow control, environmental protection, and safety.

Electric actuators are the well-established standard in the water industry.  Piping of different lengths and nominal diameters with many valve types must be automated. Electric actuators are also widely used in steel construction operating weirs and sluice gates for water systems.  Decades of developments in multi-turn, part-turn, linear actuators, valve communications, corrosion protection, and service life implanted electric actuators as the water industry standard.

AUMA, a leader in the long-term development of actuators for the water industry, earned themselves an excellent reputation by meeting the unique challenges and finding the perfect water management and treatment solutions. The AUMA brand is a synonym for long service life and ruggedness. AUMA provides solutions for all customer demands. Their modular products, control technology, and integration into established PLC control concepts or the latest Fieldbus technology are easy to retrofit in an existing installation when upgrading with modern actuation.

For more information about AUMA Actuators for the water industry in Florida, contact Instrument Specialties. Call them at 407-324-7800 or visit https://isisales.com.

Automatic Samplers Assist in Detection of Pathogens, Viruses & CECs via Wastewater-based Epidemiology

WBE (or wastewater-based epidemiology or sewage chemical information mining) is a technique for identifying a population's consumption or exposure to chemicals or diseases. A sewage treatment facility measures chemical or biological entities (biomarkers) in municipal wastewater to do so. In addition to illicit drug usage, wastewater-based epidemiology can quantify alcohol, caffeine, medicines, and other chemicals. Wastewater-based epidemiology can also detect diseases like SARS-CoV-2 in a population. Wastewater-based epidemiology is a multidisciplinary effort including wastewater treatment plant operators, chemists, and epidemiologists.

Professionals in water quality use the term contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) to describe pollutants found in water bodies that may harm the environment or human health but are not currently regulated. Agriculture, urban runoff, ordinary household products (like soaps and disinfectants) and pharmaceuticals are all sources of these pollutants. 

Natural and synthetic hormones are emerging contaminants, as is 1,4-dioxane. CECs can enter the water cycle after being discharged as waste via runoff into rivers, effluent discharge, or seepage and infiltration into the water table, eventually entering the public water supply system. Some emerging contaminants are known carcinogens and cause endocrine disruption and other toxic mechanisms.

The full line of Teledyne ISCO samplers can assist local governments, private industry, colleges and universities, and many others in detecting the COVID-19 virus, pharmaceuticals and CECs in wastewater and providing the information needed to create a plan of action.

For more information about Teledyne ISCO product in Florida, contact Instrument Specialities, Inc. Call 407-324-7800 or visit https://isisales.com.

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The Ideal Air Release Valve for Chemical, Desalinization, Sewage, and Other Severe Applications

The Crispin X Series elevates valve maintenance into the twenty-first century. All of the valve parts are made of stainless steel, making them rustproof. Instead of a bolted, flanged connection, the X series uses a stainless circular clamp to secure the valve head to the body for the tightest seal in the industry. 

The X Series, available in Air & Vacuum, Pressure Air Release, and Combination assemblies, features Crispin's exclusive Head Exchange System, which includes head-fixed stainless steel valve internals. Simply loosen the head assembly, held in place by a sanitary stainless clamp fitting, to clean. Remove the original head, which weighs less than 10 pounds, and replace it with a spare. Then, at your leisure, clean the original internals. Backflushing inline is no longer possible. No more annoyances. ANSI/AWWA C512 compliant. 

The internals of all valves are attached to the head, which is available in three color-coded configurations: red for the Air & Vacuum valve, green for the Pressure Air Release valve, and blue for the Universal Combination valve. Each product's packaging is also color-coded for easy storage. 

When backflushing an inline X Series valve, the spare head replaces the original valve head immediately, allowing proper cleaning to take place off-site in a safer and more sanitary environment. 

All that stands between you and a clean valve with the X Series is a wrench, two bolts, and a clamp. 

All of the valve heads fit the same virtually indestructible 316 stainless steel body. It is one-third the weight of a standard cast iron body and has a polished interior that prevents buildup because debris has nothing to cling to. Crispin valves are all tested under the most recent ANSI/AWWA C512 standards.

For more information about Crispin Valves for the municipal water industry in Florida, contact Instrument Specialties. Call them at (407) 324-7800 or visit their website at https://isisales.com.