SHOWCASE
New modular PAPR system
with innovation and quality at the heart of everything it does, Scott Safety’s latest Modular Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR) product range allows workers to tailor their respiratory solution to their requirements, ensuring maximum user acceptance and protection. Designed as a ‘Pick and Play’ solution, the Modular PAPR system allows users to select from interchangeable blowers, headtops and hoses to ensure they can access the most appropriate respiratory protection solution for their needs. As respiratory experts, Scott Safety helps customers to make the right choice of respiratory protection with a comprehensive range of powered air respirators to protect workers from a wide range of respiratory hazards. The Spirit and Spirit SX powered air respirators, offer an advanced level of electronic controllability that is fully programmable to meet the precise needs of the user and their application. Each has an adjustable flow with particle filters from 170l/min to 220l/min with automatic diagnostic check at
I start-up, a large colour display
of operating status and a suite of alert, warning and alarm notifications.
Scott Safety Tel: 01695 727171 Web:
www.scottsafety.com
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ndustrial workers around the world rely on Scott Safety’s respiratory protection to keep them safe and
upgraded performance particularly for use in high-temperature environments, such as glass, cement and petrochemical works, in metal refining and smelting, and electrical power production. The new Fluke 572-2 has a 60:1 distance to spot ratio for accurate measurements well away from inaccessible or potentially dangerous locations. The rugged, easy-to- use Fluke 572-2 IR Thermometer can stand up to tough industrial, electrical and mechanical environments, offering temperature measurement from -30degC to +900degC with dual laser siting for fast, accurate targeting. It also offers contact temperature measurement with a thermocouple bead probe. The three soft-key buttons allow quick navigation, via the graphical display, of advanced features to adjust emissivity (using a built-in material table), to start data logging for up to 99 points of data, or to turn alarms on and off. USB connectivity enables captured data to be downloaded to FlukeView® Forms Documenting software, provided with the 572-2, for graphing, analysis and reporting.
New high-end IR Thermometer F
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New medium voltage drives improve life cycle costs at Pumping Station
Wastewater Treatment Works in Sheffield. Six ACS 2000 drives from ABB have replaced a DC drive system used to control a set of pumps,
The first UK installation of a new type of medium voltage AC drive
with motors rated at 2 x 645 kW, 2 x 505 kW and 2 x 300 kW. The multi-pump arrangement is used to transfer wastewater 25 metres below ground to the head of the treatment works. Medium voltage drives were selected instead of low voltage drives due to the long cable lengths and overall project costs including the electrical distribution system, variable-speed drives and motors. The existing DC drive system used dry-type cast-resin indoor transformers feeding DC drives controlling the DC motors. While Yorkshire Water Services’ specification for the new system would permit indoor transformers, they would need to be integrated into the new variable-speed drives and would, therefore, not be free- standing. The ACS 2000 was selected as it can be used without an input isolation transformer, thereby allowing a direct connection to the 6.6 kV line supply (direct-to-line). The active front end (AFE) enables the transformerless operation with reduced harmonic loadings.
ABB Ltd Tel: 01925 741 111
Vynagrip makes automotive automation safe
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www.abb.co.uk/energy enter 813 has been commissioned at Yorkshire Water’s Blackburn Meadows
luke, the global leader in portable electronic test and measurement technology, has introduced a new, high-end Infrared (IR) Thermometer with
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espoke Vynagrip anti-slip matting modules are being used to protect workers at the Sugitani Metal Industry Company, a sub-contractor of a major
Japanese car manufacture that specialises in the production of automotive components in Japan. The matting modules, supplied complete with bevelled edges, have been installed in the cutting operations area. Manufactured in the UK by Plastic Extruders Ltd and supplied by Japanese distributor AM Products Inc, Vynagrip provides a safe and effective solution for this dangerous location.
The combination of metal shavings, cutting oil and water used for cleansing pose serious underfoot hazards for the workers and the matting addresses these multiple problems in one tidy answer. The benefits of its deeply etched surface include a combination of durability and high slip resistance while the open grid surface allows the metals shavings to fall through the gaps as well as facilitating drainage. The matting’s PVC flexible composition makes it resistant to oils and other chemicals, is comfortable underfoot and facilitates cutting on site , making Vynagrip the perfect solution.
Samples and information are available from Plastic Extruders Ltd (Tel 01268 571116) or visit
www.vynagrip.com
energy savings compared to conventional steam-to-water heating systems. EasiHeat now features the Spirax Intelligent Monitoring System (SIMS™). SIMS is an innovative control and monitoring display technology that makes it easy to save energy and control critical applications. The new control technology uses a colour touchscreen interface to deliver key performance data to operators, such as steam use, fuel consumption and temperature. This helps operators to monitor energy use more closely and adjust the system to optimise efficiency. The interface is intuitive and can be used by operators with limited control experience. Even without the addition of SIMS, Spirax EasiHeatsystems typically offer between six and ten per cent energy savings compared with traditional systems based on shell-and-tube exchangers. The new system delivers a further ten per cent energy saving on average by ensuring that all the useful energy is extracted from the steam before the resulting condensate is returned to the boiler. EasiHeat is a ready- to-install engineered system that uses steam in a compact, plate-and-frame heat exchanger to provide instant hot water for space heating, domestic hot water (DHW), or process applications.
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pirax EasiHeat™ Engineered Systems for delivering hot water and heating on-demand have been enhanced to deliver up to 20%
Spirax Sarco UK Tel: 01242 521361 Web:
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ABB level transmitter helps Robinson Bros keep the lid on explosive chemical
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magnetostrictive level transmitter from ABB is enabling Robinson Brothers to meet strict safety
standards regarding the storage of highly reactive carbon disulphide (CS2). Robinson Brothers uses CS2 as part of its Midlands-based speciality chemicals manufacturing operation. CS2 is so reactive that it has to be stored under a layer of water to prevent it from igniting, and the level of the interface between the water and CS2 requires constant monitoring. Any associated measurement devices are therefore safety-critical. Level measurement was previously achieved using a very simple magnetic float-based device that provided a local indication of the level but didn’t link in to any wider control system. But an ongoing programme of improvements at the plant called for an updated solution equipped with the latest communications. In simple terms, magnetostrictive systems can be thought of as a “float on a stick”. The “stick” is actually a sensing tube wrapped around a wire that receives regular electrical pulses.
ABB Ltd Tel: 01925 741 111 Web:
www.abb.co.uk
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