Guide Focuses On Ferrule-Less Tube Connectors

Parker Hannifin has published a 40-page guide to its Phastite range of ferrule-less tube connectors for high-pressure fluid applications. The range is said to provide permanent connections for instrumentation tubing systems operating to 20000lb/in2 (1380 bar). Assembled by means of a push-fit operation, Phastite connectors can reduce installation costs by factors up to 90 per cent or more compared with welded or cone-and-thread fittings, Parker Hannifin said.

The guide describes the technology and sealing principle, the assembly process, and the advantages of this connection system compared with other approaches. It then provides detailed specifications and selection information for all the various shapes and sizes of fitting for tube diameters from 1/4 to 1in/6 to 25mm, and information on the associated handheld or bench-top assembly tools.

James Walker Publishes Compression-Packings Guide

James Walker's compression-packings guide provides technical information for OEMs, design engineers, maintenance staff and procurement executives across all industrial sectors. It starts with a quick-reference chart that enables readers to scan swiftly through the complete range and select the most suitable products for specific application before referring to the full descriptions and technical specifications. The section on graphite-based fugitive emission control features packings such as the low-friction Supagraf Premier and Supagraf Control, which are both certified in valves to TA Luft/VDI 2440 standards and qualify as Best Available Technique products in line with the EU IPPC Directive.

Supagraf Premipak is a combination packing set for valves, based on two graphite materials that conform to Shell material specifications MESC SPE 85/203 and 85/204. This packing set is designed to reduce VOC emissions to better than 100ppm and has a working temperature range of -200 to 450C. Also new to the guide are Torrlid packings that hold a vacuum on the lids above crucibles of molten aluminium. These products readily withstand the temperatures and compressive forces involved, even after repeated opening and closing cycles.

Many compression packings in this publication are said to significantly reduce maintenance stockholding costs, as most length-form products can be used on different sizes of valves, centrifugal pumps and other rotary equipment, as well as reciprocating pumps and rams.

Materials range from highly developed Supagraf graphite and chemically inert Fluolion PTFE-based grades to hard-wearing aramid, glass and ramie fibres, and softer natural yarns. Products for static duties include the Tankatite range of sealing products for tank lids and hatches on marine tankers, and static or mobile tank containers. There are also very high-temperature packing grades for furnace doors and kilns. The compression-packings guide can be downloaded in PDF format from James Walker's website and is also available as a 36-page printed brochure.

SICK UK Publishes Food-Processing Sensor Guide

SICK UK's 'Efficient Automation for Food and Beverage Production' guide features sensors that have a positive effect on operating safety, availability and economic efficiency of facilities. The 72-page guide describes the best sensor or scanner for differing applications.

It addresses hygiene design issues and resisting clean-in-place and sterilise-in-place regimes; hygiene legislation and certification; temperature; and environmental and ingress protection. Further sections cover the extensive support services provided by SICK for food and beverage manufacturers and a comprehensive overview of SICK sensor products.

Minitec Launches Profile Systems Reference Guide

Minitec UK has compiled and written a 72-page reference guide on machine framing system design and applications. The pocket-sized hard copy book is entitled 'Profile Systems for Mechanical Engineering' and covers a range of information from materials analysis and structural design considerations to time and cost benefits for extruded aluminium systems versus traditional steel fabrication.

'Profile Systems for Mechanical Engineering' takes a broad view to help machine builders make considered decisions about materials selection, structural design, adaptability of profile systems, application diversity, fastening technologies and design software.

An applications section covers some real examples in different fields of mechanical engineering where Minitec's Profile System has enabled shortened design and assembly times and reduced development costs for fully modular and easily scaled machine designs

Linear Guide Systems Are Easy To Specify

Design is capable of carrying heavy loads at high capacity, velocity and acceleration while still excelling in wear resistance. PBC Linear has a new line of cost-effective easy-to-specify linear guide systems. Integral V Technology systems feature a patent pending process that allows for tighter tolerances without additional cost. The design itself is capable of carrying heavy loads at high capacity, velocity and acceleration while still excelling in wear resistance.

IV-T also has a growing number of configurations and a wide range of uses with custom orders available. This versatile product is yet another in a long line of innovative products in PBC's history. With the 20 different configurations already available - and more being developed each week - the IV technology is truly versatile in its application. Products in IV technology include snap-in, bolt-on, integrated and compact configurations. All of which allow for easy installation, and what really sets this product and company apart from others is that Pacific Bearing is willing to work with companies to integrate the IV-technology into their extrusions.

PBC's engineering team is fully prepared to adapt or modify the customer's base design with the new Integral V technology to ensure a successful product. The hardened steel V-raceway allows for a high load capacity, rigidity and wear resistance. The rail is constructed of lightweight aluminium partnered with hardened steel V raceways that are mechanically inserted to create high contact loads and wear resistance; thereby lowering production and replacement costs.

Guide Helps Users Cut Compressed Air Costs

EnergAir has released a free guide to reducing costs in compressed air systems. Challenge Convention in Compressed Air details several ways to improve the energy efficiency of compressed air systems. Aimed at plant managers, site maintenance managers and energy managers the intention is to help address preconceived ideas about compressed air generation (one of the major energy costs to industry) that are currently the cause of huge amounts of energy waste, the alternatives can add literally tens of thousands on the bottom line.

'The industry needs to challenge convention on compressed air in order to realise the savings that can be made', according to Peter Tomlins of EnergAir UK. EnergAir believes that it can provide vital knowledge regarding the purchasing and integration of variable speed compressors, compressor sizing, balancing system pressure, providing visibility of actual energy consumption, and monitoring saving when changes are made, information that would not normally be available to individual plant and maintenance managers.

The brochure also contains real examples of how savings have been made by leading UK manufacturers such as Britvic and the equipment used to achieve those savings. The guide also aims to dispel some myths about how much difference new equipment can make without being properly integrated and offers advice on how to get the best from an existing compressor installation. The EnergAir guide to reducing the running costs of compressed air systems is available in paper format free from EnergAir and as a high-resolution pdf from the company website.