A consultant hired by U.S. Steel to investigate an August 11 explosion at the company’s Clairton Coke Works found water pumped into a valve during a scheduled maintenance exceeded the valve’s pressure ...

Ball valves are integral components in many industries, including oil and gas, chemical processing, agriculture, food and beverage equipment, mechanical engineering and automotive manufacturing. These ...

At DuPont’s Fayetteville Works Tedlar plants in Fayetteville, NC, the company produces a polymer used in the manufacturing of solar panels. With just 35 employees operating the two plants at this site ...

Power plants depend on hundreds of valves and many different pumps to carry out operations 24/7. Good maintenance procedures—including routine tasks and predictive maintenance—are critical to keeping ...

Updated: October 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM EDT This story has been corrected to show that maintenance was being performed on a gas isolation valve. The federal board investigating the fatal August explosion ...

A single power plant uses hundreds of valves to control almost every aspect of its operation. Valves, in conjunction with a controlling actuator, are used for pollution control, feed water, cooling ...

MINNEAPOLIS - Medtronic, Inc. today announced it has received Conformité Européenne (CE) Mark for valve-in-valve (VIV) procedures using the CoreValve® and CoreValve® Evolut(TM) transcatheter aortic ...

PARIS, France—Treating a failed bioprosthesis via transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)—the so-called valve-in-valve approach—is feasible and often effective but technically demanding, ...

The two computers installed for the Valve Monitoring App and PDM Maintenance Station are both 24V, DIN rail-mounted computers connected to the plant’s process control network. Source: DuPont. At ...