Category: Flavor/Fragrance
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Automated Valves for the Flavor and Fragrance Industry: Improving Precision, Compliance, and Efficiency
Automated valves for the flavor and fragrance industry play a critical role in meeting the sector’s high demands for cleanliness, precision, and batch consistency. Whether it’s flavor formulations for food and beverages or aroma compounds for personal care and household products, manufacturers must balance strict regulatory compliance with scalable, efficient operations. In this environment, even…
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Selecting Fire Safety Shut-down Valves
Thermal shutoffs prevent overheating, trigger fire suppression, and comply with safety regulations makes them an essential component of industrial fire prevention strategies.
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Safeguarding Operations with FM Fire-Safe Valves for Flammable Liquids
Flammable liquids are integral to many industrial processes, including chemical manufacturing, petroleum refining, pharmaceuticals, and flavor and fragrance manufacturing. However, the very properties that make these liquids useful also make them hazardous. The risk of fires or explosions when handling flammable liquids cannot be overstated, which is why robust safety measures are crucial. The Importance…
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Flavor and Fragrance Company Upgrades To Automated System Utilizing Clustered Angle Valves
Problem: A flavor and fragrance (F &F) company was looking to upgrade its plant from manual pours to an automated system. They utilized almost 100 different liquids and minimizing the footprint of all these automated valves was a concern. The customer wanted a fast-cycling valve to ensure they hit their setpoints of each product pour…
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Magnetic Flow Meter Basics
A magnetic flow meter, also referred to as mag flow meter or magmeter, is a volumetric flow meter that measures liquids or liquid slurries that have a minimum conductivity of 5 µS/cm. Magnetic flow meters will typically not work with hydrocarbons, distilled water, non-aqueous solutions and non-conductive solutions. Magnetic flow meters utilize Faraday’s Law of Electromagnetic…
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Sanitary Valves for Fragrance Encapsulation Skid
Project Showcase: Fragrance Manufacturer requires sanitary ball valves and flanged ball valves for fragrance production application Customer Type Fragrance Manufacturer Application Fragrance Oil-liquid process and steam for heating reactor jackets Valve Series 30D , BFY, 36 , F150 Series Actuator Series F Series Rack & Pinion Pneumatic Valve Actuator Valve Size 1/2″-4″ # of Valves…
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FM Fire-Safe Emergency Shutdown Protection for Fuel, Oil, Gas
Factory Mutual’s rigorous testing of the FM Fire-Safe ensures the quality and reliability of the shutdown system. Factory Mutual certifies that the FM Fire-Safe emergency shutdown valves * have been tested and will protect properties from loss according to their internationally recognized FM 7440 standard for liquid and gas safety shutoff. To meet this standard,…
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3 Types of Emergency Shutdown and Emergency Isolation Valves
The two most common methods used to trigger a thermal shutoff, eliciting a failure position in pneumatically operated Emergency Shut Down and Emergency Isolation Valves are: (1) Fusible Plugs, and (2) Plastic Tubing. Both of these techniques have been used in emergency shutdown systems for years in refining, chemical, petrochemical, pulp and paper, flavors and…
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5 Way Multiport Valve with Electric Actuator
A major Flavor and Fragrance company was looking for a cost effective way to divert flow to multiple holding tanks. Assured Automation offered a custom 5 way multiport valve with 4 position electric actuator. Flow enters from the valve bottom and can be diverted out of one of the 4 side ports. 3-Way diverter valves…
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Assured Automation’s FM Fire-Safe Fusible Link Valves
FM Fire-Safe Fusible Link Valve Protects Refineries and Chemical Processors from Fire Hazards The FM Fire-Safe Shutoff fusible link valve assemblies from Assured Automation are API 607 and Factory Mutual approved for flammable liquids, and are commonly used to: To shut down hazardous lines when fire occurs, and Activate sprinkler systems to control fire These…
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Flavor and Fragrance Companies Improve Inventory Control, Compliance and Increase Capacity with BatchMetrics Software
Building good working relationships is vital to succeeding in today’s increasingly competitive valve industry. One of the reasons Assured Automation has such a positive industry reputation is that they strive to forge mutually beneficial relationships by being knowledgeable of their customers’ industry and processes, allowing them to anticipate and suggest valving solutions as needs arise.…
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Emergency Block Valves with Fusible Links & Electro-thermal Shutoffs Increase Safety Factor
The FM Fire-Safe Electro-Thermal Link ball valve is activated by either heat or signal from smoke detector to dump flammable fluids to another source. The fire safe thermal shutoff closes to prevent fueling of a fire in petroleum and chemical processing plants. In his presentation on Emergency Block Valves (EBV) to the AIChE sponsored Global…