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What Magazines do You Read?

Posted January 18, 2009 8:08 AM

Valve engineers and users are having a tough time finding news, technical articles and product coverage of valves and actuators in print magazines these days. What magazines do you read to keep up on valves? And why?

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01/18/2009 3:11 PM

I actually agree on the availability of information, early on my career, the company I work for were misusing/misapplying valves. Mostly due to price. Such as Modulating valves, they were using basically a tapered plug modulating valve to modulated not only flow but pressure.

The PID control did nothing but chase itself. until I used a Freq Drive on the supply pumps. This helped considerable. And at least to be able to control on the process. If this didn't help I would have used a CPM (Constant Pressure Modulating)valve. The prices between the two valves is about 5 time more expensive, but makes control easier.

But at that time there was not such thing as the internet, Though I did belong to the McGraw-Hill Engineering Book Club. which they discontinued back in the late 90's. probably due to the internet.....

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