In January 2004, a U.S. power plant employee was struck by metal fragments and killed as the result of an electric actuator failure. Before the failure, a wedge gate valve on a boiler feedwater line ...

Originally embedded in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code , today the Operation and Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants standard for inservice testing ...

The most common reference in the industry for valve actuator motors (VAMs) are motor operated valves (MOVs). The reason the term “MOV” wasn’t used in the NEC when they were added to the document ...

(Reuters) - BP reported a release of materials from the coker drum at its 125,700 barrel-per-day joint-venture refinery in Toledo, Ohio, due to a faulty motor-operated valve. In a filing with ...

Fairbanks Morse Defense (FMD) has secured a contract from Birdon to supply key fluid control components for the U.S. Coast Guard’s Waterways Commerce Cutter (WCC) program. The company will deliver ...

Dresser Masoneilan of the USA has been awarded a contract by China Nuclear Power Engineering Co (CNPEC) to supply control valves for the units 1 and 2 of the Taishan nuclear power plant under ...