Through its participation in the Hy4Heat programme, Riello is helping to assess the potential for, and implications of, using 100% hydrogen in the UK gas network as a carbon-free alternative to natural gas.

Independent testing by Enertek International Ltd. indicates that Riello burners operate as reliably and efficiently with hydrogen as they do with natural gas – requiring only a change to the means of flame failure detection.

In 2015, with business improving but original process equipment reaching end-of-life, Rebellion Beer Company bucked the trend and, with impartial advice from heat transfer specialist Fulton, replaced its ageing steam boiler for a thermal fluid system. Now, six years on, we approached Rebellion’s Mark Gloyens to update us on how brewery life has coped with the switch.

Anyone running a brewery will tell you just how critical the boil phase of the brewing process is; and when Rebellion set out on its journey from steam to thermal, they were warned that they’d never succeed in getting that clean flavour achieved from a steam-driven rolling boil.

A new gas process heating system from Lanemark Combustion Engineering is now fully operational at a leading micro-brewery in London.  Villages Brewery is benefiting from Lanemark technology which plays a key role in a new facility – with particular gains noted in terms of operational efficiency.

“We have installed and commissioned a liquid heating TX 25E burner package on a brewing kettle supplied by Bespoke Brewing Solutions, with whom we liaised closely throughout the project,” says Lanemark’s Process Burner Sales Manager, Adrian Cadman.  “This provides a capacity of 30 hl – or 18 UK barrels – and is now central to Villages Brewery’s production.”

Industrial process heating equipment and solutions specialist Babcock Wanson is pleased to announce the acquisition of Thermigas, the French leader of decentralised liquid-heating applications in industrial processes.

The acquisition of Thermigas will allow Babcock Wanson to strengthen its environmental credentials and to deepen its offer with equipment which enables customers to optimise the energy consumption of their processes, thereby saving energy.

Wastewater Compliance Monitoring

All factories worldwide produce wastewater in some form. Whether it be from the washing of fruit and vegetables, washdown or rinsing of machines, cooling, or commissioning of equipment. It is the responsibility of the owners and staff to follow guidelines set out to protect people and the environment.

Due to increasing water scarcity, the requirements for trade effluent discharge consent and rising cost of trade effluent disposal, plant owners are seeking ways to reduce the cost of wastewater disposal, monitor waste output and how it can be reduced.

ASAP UK is among the first to follow the new process for Grade I Medical Device registration 

Changes in the law post – Brexit regarding the registration of medical devices mean manufacturers, distributors and importers must follow new rules and guidelines. ASAP UK has already created all the necessary product technical files and is working towards meeting the requirements for registration under the new law; the company aims to be among the first to achieve this. 

Condition Based Monitoring is a proactive maintenance health check for all types of electromechanical equipment and is crucial for identifying underlying system performance issues without the need to stop production.  Avonmouth Engineering Services Ltd, who are experts in this field, were happy to provide the service recently to the UK’s leading aerospace company, Leonardo, to investigate a loud noise being generated by a lathe gearbox. 

For more than 20 years RMS have provided a comprehensive range of reliability and condition monitoring products, services, support, and professional training solutions.

Our expertise encompasses: Asset Reliability, Vibration Analysis, Motion Amplification, Ultrasound, Thermography, Oil Analysis, Dynamic Balancing, Laser Alignment and Motor Analysis. 

Our partnership with industry OEM’s highlights the commitment we make to showcasing innovative technologies. One such example is RDI Technologies. Their revolutionary technology, Motion Amplification, is a video-processing product and software package that detects subtle motion and amplifies it to a level visible with the naked eye. RMS is also a UK approved distributor of Emerson/CSI Machinery Health Manager products and solutions. 

The “Model” in Model-Based Voltage and Current (MBVI) systems is a mathematical one

Sophisticated Condition Monitoring systems that can automatically diagnose incipient faults in your machines, are made possible by some clever mathematics that take complex machine signals and translate them into readily understandable information.  In the best systems, such as the MBVI systems from Faraday Predictive, these reduce all the complex data into the form of simple, actionable advice:

Leading up to the Asset Performance 4.0 hybrid Conference and Exhibition, BEMAS, the Belgian Maintenance Association, is organising a hackathon. The purpose of a hackathon is to have an asset owner define a challenge in operations or maintenance. Interested individuals or solution providers then try to formulate a solution using digital tools, such as predictive analytics, AI, IoT…