Pumps & Valves Resources

  1. Vital Fire Suppression Line Remains Live While AVT EZ Valve® Is Installed 4/9/2026

    Critical safety systems must remain operational during repairs. Advanced insertion technology enables the installation of permanent valves on pressurized lines without service interruptions, preventing costly facility shutdowns while ensuring constant fire suppression readiness.

  2. Return Activated Sludge Pumps 3/27/2026

    Return activated sludge pumps are critical to wastewater treatment, maintaining biological balance, ensuring efficiency, and supporting resilient infrastructure amid aging systems and emerging contaminants.

  3. Maintaining And Improving Jersey City Water Infrastructure 3/18/2026

    Jersey City in New Jersey is undergoing a period of development and growth which has seen its population increase by more than 50,000 people in the last 13 years. To cater for this growth, the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority is tasked with maintaining its aging water infrastructure and improving its critical water supply to ensure it can meet the needs of its customers both now and into the future.

  4. Solving Cavitation Challenges: Understanding Low NPSH Pump Design In Modern Systems 3/2/2026
    Understanding how low Net Positive Suction Head (NPSH) pump designs work, and why they matter, requires stepping back from component-level thinking to look at how pumps interact with the supply systems.
  5. 7 Common Pump Failures In Manufacturing Plants, And How To Prevent Them 1/22/2026
    Water pumps are the quiet workhorses of manufacturing plants, as they support everything from cooling and boiler feed systems to handling wastewater and chemical processing. When water pumps run reliably, operations stay on schedule. However, when they fail, disruptions can quickly spread across an entire facility.
  6. How To Bring Quiet To Pump And Pipeline Systems 12/10/2025
    For modern pipelines and pumps, noise and vibration behavior must be considered in system design. Learn how a wastewater pumping station in Greifswald, Germany reduced pump-induced pressure fluctuations by 90%, accompanied by lower vibration levels in the discharge line, with an innovative AI-enhanced damping system.
  7. Impact Of Improved Actuation On Filter Performance 12/4/2025

    A water filtration treatment plant was built in 1950, and pneumatic actuators were installed on all of the filter control valves. The pneumatic actuators were not always reliable. Air compressor problems limited the availability of the pneumatics to control the filter valves.

  8. Actuators On Aeration Blower Valves Improve Dissolved Oxygen And Increase Overall Process Stability 12/4/2025

    Discover how installing Beck electric actuators on the aeration blower control valves has improved process stability and plant operations for a South Florida treatment plant.

  9. Valve Upgrades Reduce The Number Of Corrective Work Orders By 99% 12/4/2025

    A water treatment plant was using conventional electric actuators on valves across the facility, including the modulating Filter Effluent applications. A history of actuator problems prompted plant personnel to consider replacements.

  10. Sludge Valve Upgrades Reduce The Number Of Corrective Work Orders 12/4/2025

    Read about one of the largest wastewater treatment plants in the world that recently finished a project for upgrading its sludge valve actuators.