Assured Automation's Actuated Valve eBook

June 28, 2012
Assured Automation is providing an eBook titled Automated Valves: Optimization of Process Control and Profits to mechanical engineers

Assured Automation is providing an eBook titled Automated Valves: Optimization of Process Control and Profits to mechanical engineers. The eBook is a compilation of educational articles written by the world renowned process engineering expert, Günter Öxler. The ebook provides useful guidance for engineers who are designing for efficiency and cost-containment. It supplies engineers with valve automation, including electric, mechanical and pneumatic actuation, analog and digital positioners, switches and controllers, as described in Öxler's educational materials.

Topics covered in the eBook include:

  • How to prepare butterfly valves with pneumatic part turn actuator for shipment and storage
  • Horizontally vs. vertically applied butterfly valves
  • Double eccentric butterfly valves
  • Process control valve operation under power shut-down / black-out conditions
  • Scotch yoke or rack-and-pinion pneumatic part-turn actuator?
  • How to design process valves with adjustable speed control for the opening and closing sequence
  • How to operate valves absolutely fail-safe without a power supply or control system
  • Manual operation and manual override
  • Saving costs: pneumatic actuation in water and wastewater technology
  • Simplify Your Process Control Solution in a batching system

The Automated Valves: Optimization of Process Control and Profits eBook can be downloaded from the Assured Automation website.