CONTENTS
8 Cover Story MRC Global’ s approach to low-RE requirements: The chemistry and standards behind HF alkylation valves
MRC Global’ s November cover story covers how API RP 751 and MSS SP-160 define Low-RE requirements, and what that means for HF alkylation valve specifications and purchase orders.
12 Project Report The Tijuana River Project
The US Environmental Protection Agency( EPA) and Mexico’ s Secretariate of Environment and Natural Resources are working together to clean up the chronic pollution of the 120-mile Tijuana River.
14 End User Interview Design Validation Test – Closing the gap: API 6D Annex F vs. ISO 23632
As end users raise the bar for integrity assurance, DVT has become a key gatekeeper separating a valve design that merely meets paper requirements from one whose performance under design conditions has actually been proven.
20 Nuclear Energy Nuclear Energy: A current industry outlook
Powering just over 9 % of the world’ s electricity and operating across 31 countries, nuclear energy is slowly but surely marking its territory in the world’ s energy supply. Here you can read new developments within the nuclear sector across the globe.
22 Water / Desalination Jordan’ s ambitious water lifeline
The Aqaba-Amman Water Desalination and Conveyance Project isn’ t simply another large desalination plant. It combines one of the world’ s largest SWRO facilities, more than 400 km of water transmission infrastructure, major highhead pumping and almost 300 MW of renewable generation.
30 Valve Design First-time factors in EPC projects: Hidden risks behind familiar technologies
This article explores the“ First-Time Factor” and how early risk recognition, collaboration and knowledge sharing can help prevent costly project delays, rework and operational issues.
34 Industry Outlook Maintenance campaigns depend on leak detection reliability
Maintenance programmes succeed or fail based on repeatability, and leak detection plays a larger role in that outcome than many teams realise. Across downstream oil and gas and chemical facilities, leaks are rarely a single event, and when detection methods are inconsistent, leaks persist longer than expected, increasing both risk and cost.
36 Control Valves Big 5 parameters for sizing control valves
Here, Mark Nord from Emerson talks about the Big 5 parameters you need to size a control valve and explains where to find that information. He also shows how to choose the correct process data to generate an acceptable control valve solution for a given application.
40 Design Bridging mechanical design and industrial AI
How valve manufacturers can prepare ball valves for evidencebased maintenance, digital twins and future industrial-AI workflows.
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