Compressed air purification

Having identified the different types of contamination found within a compressed air system, the purification technologies available for its removal can now be explained.

Introduction to the European ATEX directive Explosive atmospheres

Directive 9/9/EC defines an explosive atmosphere as a mixture of:

a) Flammable substances – gases, vapours, mists or dusts

b) With air

c) Under specific atmospheric conditions

d) In which, after ignition has occurred, combustion spreads to the entire flammable mixture

(NB: with regard to dust, it may be that not all dust is combusted after ignition has occurred)

Connector seals set tough tooling challenge

DP Seals is currently supplying Hypertac with the interfacial seals needed for the latter’s latest high-density PCB connector range. But achieving the accuracy and precision demanded by the manufacture of these fluorosilicone seals proved quite a challenge and set Hypertac’s supplier - DP Seals - one of its toughest tooling tests to date.

An Antarctic adventure for Cat Pumps

An ambitious scientific mission to collect water and sediment samples from Lake Ellsworth, some 3km beneath solid ice in Antarctica, is using positive displacement triplex pump technology to provide high pressure hot water for an innovative borehole drilling system.

Paving the way to a successful partnership

Every year, thousands of kilometres of streets and roads are added to the landscape and paving machines have a pivotal role to play in all this activity. Transferring up to 1,100 tons of asphalt per hour is a huge deal and one of the reasons why Dynapac paid so much attention to the hydraulic control systems at the heart of its latest generation of pavers.