Propeller head
Ask any engineer about electric motors and most of us visualise low- or medium-voltage three-phase equipment, either precision synchronous motors, driving machines or, more likely, standard asynchronous induction motors running pumps, fans and sometimes compressors. We see them everywhere, on all manner of industrial and utility plant, as well as heating and ventilating systems.
Pulsar ultrasonics are no slouch to sludge
Wessex Water is reporting success with seven new sludge blanket monitors, from Pulsar Process Measurement, at its Christchurch sewage treatment works.
Instruments for control
Help is at hand for plant engineers facing up to the challenge of handling instrumentation and control. Brian Tinham reports on recent developments
Taking control
Plant engineers wedded to particular instrument and control types might do well to widen the net. Brian Tinham examines recent developments in instrumentation and control
Testing the waters
No one likes being overburdened with regulations, and plant engineers are no exception - fact. However, in a world forced into a rather late, reactionary effort to clean up its act, pollution in the waste water and effluent sector was always going to be fair game, and we have had to adjust to living in a tightly regulated climate where awareness is all.
Manifolds cut time and cost of dp level installation by 85%
A highly integrated manifold concept is offering plant engineers a radically simpler means of installing level measurement instrumentation to process tanks and vessels.
Meeting energy-efficiency expectations
Using a digital twin can help manage energy efficiency across sectors, as Mark Venables reveals.
Hospital robots
The robot revolution is underway and will be happening in a hospital near you very soon. So says Dr Patrick Finlay, director of Prosurgics, the company he founded back in 1995 to build medical robots. And he adds: 'Within the next 20 years, medical students will think it highly amusing that surgeons used to put their hands inside patients to carry out significant procedures.'
Magic bullets
Maintenance of the all-new Hitachi trains for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link - the first consignment of which is now in the UK - is going to be a challenge. It's not that this fleet, which is based on the iconic Japanese Shinkansen bullet trains, is likely to be problematic. With such a high-profile project, everyone will want to be certain that this service sticks like glue to its scheduled 37 minutes from Ashford to St Pancras.
SED Preview - The great outdoors
If you want to see construction plant and machinery demonstrated in as near as possible realistic working conditions, as opposed to simply static displays, Site Equipment Demonstration (SED) is the show for you. It has the largest assembly of plant, tools, equipment and accessories available in one place in the UK - making it the premier event for the industry.