The PremierTec magnetic mixer’s patented design features a strong magnetic coupling between the impeller and the driving magnets. This causes the impeller to levitate and thus have no direct contact with the bearing surfaces. This configuration allows for continued mixing until a tank is empty. As a result, the customer saves product, time, and money due to reduced operating costs. The mixer is suitable for processes in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and food industries. All products have 3.1 traceability with USP Class VI-compliant mixing components.

PlantTriage’s latest enhancement, Root Cause Finder, employs advanced mathematical techniques to automatically identify the root causes of process upsets, without requiring any process models or other prior knowledge of the process. Upsets that start in one part of a plant are reflected in the data patterns observed in other parts of the plant. By evaluating the correlations among instrument readings throughout the entire manufacturing facility, and the time-shift from one correlation to the other, PlantTriage is able to determine the most likely sources of process variation.

The WellLink 3D visualization product converts wellbore data into real-time imagery to support reservoir characterization and navigation, directional drilling, well planning, and reservoir optimization. By allowing real-time well data — such as Earth models, well trajectory, logs, and reservoir models — to be viewed and analyzed within their geologic context, the software provides useful decision-support capabilities.

This company has just released Version 2.0 of its PVT software, which is used by the VISCOlab PVT system for high-pressure and high-temperature viscosity analysis. The viscometer is used to measure viscosity in a variety of applications, including oil exploration, research, and recovery; gas and gas condensates; core analysis; phase behavior; supercritical fluids; and other complex applications. The new version of the software includes several key enhancements designed to make viscosity testing of oil, gas, and supercritical fluids easier and more efficient.

The Pilot Maintain module is now part of the Felton Pilot MES platform. Pilot Maintain supports operator efforts to plan preventive maintenance programs for all devices, systems, and machines, and to carry out such a plan in a targeted way. Maintenance intervals can be set by time, production volume, or machine runtime. The ability to improve system reliability through more strategic planning and execution of upcoming and recurring maintenance and repair work can help to reduce lost production and economic losses related to unplanned downtime.

The gCrystal software suite’s easy-to-use, drag-and-drop graphical environment permits model-based innovation, engineering, and optimization of solution-crystallization processes, including precipitation. The program enables the creation of detailed models containing first-principles representations of the complex physics and chemistry of crystallization.

This program calculates the potential energy savings that may be realized using variable frequency drives (VFDs) to power pumps and fans. It allows users to compare the costs of conventional methods, such as valves for pump control and dampers for fan control, to those of VFDs. Energy use can be calculated based on built-in sample data, or by entering the minimum pump or flow percentages, annual operating hours, cost per kilowatt, and other site-specific information. The tool is available as an online calculator or a mobile application for an iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, or Android system.

TraceCalc Pro Version 2.5 provides a step-by-step process to design an effective and efficient heat-tracing system for pipes and vessels. Users input system design parameters, such as pipe size and material, insulation type and thickness, service voltage, maximum exposure temperature, pipe length, and the number and sizes of valves.

Improvements to the FieldView 13 family of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) post-processing and visualization programs aim to help practitioners carry out high-fidelity CFD. The recently released FieldView 13.1 provides a new direct reader that allows FieldView to be used seamlessly with the OpenFOAM CFD solver. OpenFOAM users can rely on FieldView to create transient animations with a single click, perform simultaneous post-processing tasks while generating new solutions, numerically compare solutions with those from other solvers or experimental data, and more.

The Pressure-Reducing Valve (PRV) Sizing Software Module, Phase 1, is designed to help process engineers specify and size PRVs. It includes a variety of useful features based on user feedback. For instance, its visual product range selection option allows full product descriptions and code numbers to be viewed, which makes sizing charts unnecessary. Additional features include velocity and noise predictions, automatic pipe sizing, and more.