Featured Story – Working with steam turbines An interview with Jillian Toussaint of BP
In an informal interview, Principle Machinery Engineer at BP in the Netherlands Jillian Toussaint discusses her work with steam turbines, explains why digitalization will be increasingly important and – almost in passing– reveals exactly why engineering really should be every schoolleaver’s first choice of profession.
Featured Story – Corrosion resistance of heat exchangers in seawater desalination plants
This paper examines the corrosion of high-alloy stainless steels used in heat exchangers which are working in service in seawater desalination plants where chlorination of the seawater is used to limit microbial activity and can therefore provide a quite aggressive environment.
Featured Story – Best practices for welding duplex stainless steels
This article first explains why duplexes are increasingly the material of choice in process industries’ applications, before going on to explain the intricacies of welding duplex to dissimilar metals so that potential problems can be avoided. Aspects like the importance of the materials’ coefficients of thermal expansion, heat dissipation, thermal conductivity, and the fusion grain structure all need to be considered when joining duplex alloys to carbon steel and low-alloy steel.
Featured Story – Compact, high-efficiency heat exchangers: Understanding fouling
Within the class of compact heat exchanger, the sub-class of high efficiency CHEs is generally characterized by high film coefficients and low fouling factors that both contribute to higher overall U values. While these attributes alone tend to make the CHEs smaller in size than conventional shell-and-tube and other ‘longitudinal’ heat exchangers, the use of close channel spacings also allows this sub-class to get more heat transfer area into a given footprint and a given volume.
Featured Story – Heavy Metal & Tubes (India) Pvt. Ltd. A fully self-reliant company...
Heavy Metal & Tubes (India) Pvt. Ltd. has a strikingly young and dynamic management, which is resolved to taking the company to new heights through its clear vision, state-of-the-art technology, highly talented and qualified staff, and its determination to produce the highest quality products to ensure customer satisfaction.