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fCI wins awards Company says Control magazine readers chose the winners
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ontrol magazine readers have selected Fluid Components International (FCI) as the Number One supplier of both thermal mass flow meters and flow switches for over a decade. Announcing this, the company said that the results of the 21st Annual Control Readers’ Choice Awards represent the collective opinion of hundreds of process automation professionals. FCI, in the wake of winning the awards, claimed that its products were requested by name in many of the world’s most demanding environments for flow instrumentation and were recognised for their precision measurement accuracy and repeatability in harsh conditions, where their high performance ensured both end-product quality and operational safety.
Gea to participate at trade fair
Will showcase products related to seafood processing
in areas with difficult access such as harbours and bays; AccuJector Injection System, especially developed for fish injection amounts from five to 50%, where the cuts of fish can be immediately packed after injection or transported to the next processing step; and PowerPak Thermoformer for hygienic packaging of fresh and deepfrozen fish.
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EA Food Solutions and GEA Refrigeration Technologies has announced that it will participate and present a number of innovations at the Seafood Processing Europe, to held in Brussels from April 23 to 25 (Hall 4, Booth 4-5839). GEA listed three main products it will showcase at the trade fair: Geneglace containers for mobile ice generation and storage, which are designed for the generation and storage of flake ice, with application
mycon acquires licence to make Jetmaster
Equipment can be used for cleaning fin-type heat exchangers
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ycon has announced acquiring the global licence for the construction and sale of equipment (JetMaster) for cleaning finned heat exchangers, from its sister company, Kipp Umwelttechnik, which will offer the patent-protected process (additional patents are pending) as service work on finned heat exchangers in all sectors within Germany, such as coolers in the engine sector, oil coolers, cold stores and air conditioning systems. According to Mycon, JetMaster has been tested on finned heat exchangers
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up to 650 mm deep and can also be cleaned if they are accessible from both sides. It added that JetMaster employed an environmentally friendly cleaning process that solely worked with the smallest volumes of clean water and compressed air (at most 1 - 6 bar), meaning that the process could also be used in all outdoor areas. Mycon explained the cleaning process saying that the water was pre-treated within the equipment, and when fed in as a compressed
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air stream, the pre-treated water was charged with micro-bubbles and blasted at high speed through a special nozzle onto the finned heat exchanger to be cleaned. The
emerging stream penetrated into the sensitive fins, where it caused a cavitation effect that loosened the dirt adhering to the fins and, ultimately, carried it away. The company claimed that the cleaning effect made finned heat exchangers look almost new even after serious contamination by oil and other organic substances, and had the added advantages of energy savings, elimination of heat-related downtimes and extension of the service life of systems.