Knowledge Centre



Information about testing industrial valves, pressure safety valves and control valves;


Leaflet about Control Valve testing

leaflet about Safety valve testing

leaflet about shut-off valve testing

leaflet about Safety valves protetecting life and property

PreVenTest






Links to other sources of information relevant to the process-related industries.
[Ventil Test Equipment provides these links as a courtesy, without any endorsement or warranty of the associated sites' content or performance]
     

Technology news & reference

News.com
Yahoo's industry news

Control newsgroup
Chemical engineering newsgroup
Automation mailing list
 
Casti Engineering and Scientific Portal
ChemFinder
ChemSpy
Control virtual library
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library

Energy Events calendar
Engineeringtalk.com
MeasurementDevices.com
Processingingtalk.com
Recent Advances in Manufacturing
Temperature sensors information repository
Theorem.net (list of links)

 

Organizations

ACS - American Chemical Society
AGA - American Gas Association
AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers
API - American Petroleum Institute
ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASBC - American Society of Brewing Chemists
CGA - Compressed Gas Association
CPACT - Centre for Process Analytics and Control Technology
CRA - Corn Refiners Association
Emerson Exchange - Emerson Global Users Exchange
FRI - Fractionation Research, Inc.
IChemE - Institution of Chemical Engineers
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IGT - Institute of Gas Technology
IMEKO - International Measurement Confederation
ISA - Connecting people and ideas in automation + control
MBAA - Master Brewers Association of the Americas
NPRA - National Petrochemical & Refiners Assn.
NWFPA - Northwest Food Processors Assn.
SMRP - Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals
TAPPI - Technical Assn. of the Pulp & Paper Industry
VMA - Valve Manufacturers Association
WBF - World Batch Forum
WRA - World Refining Association

Standards

Fieldbus
-   Fieldbus Foundation
-   Read-Out's fieldbus page
-   Control Engineering Fieldbus Facts
-   The Fieldbus Reference List
HART
-   HART Foundation
-   The HART Book
OPC (OLE for Process Control)
-   OPC Foundation
BSi - BSI Group (British Standards)
CENELEC - European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
ISO - International Organization for Standardization
ISO 9000 in plain English - Praxiom Research Group
IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission
ANSI- American National Standards Institute
CSA - Canadian Standards Association
DIN - Deutsches Institut fur Normung
ISA standards information
NSSN national standards resource
SAE standards information
MIMOSA - Operations & Maintenance Open Systems Alliance

 

Regulatory compliance

EPA - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FDA - U.S. Food & Drug Administration
OSHA - U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration
Environmental resources from the Chemical Industry Home Page
Vermont SIRI MSDS collection

 

 

Industry malls and communities

Automation.com
Chemical Online
Downtime Central
eCalibration.com
ElectricNet
The FCC Network (Fluid Catalytic Cracking)
FlowBiz
Flow Control Network
Food Online
Hydrocarbon Online
ICEweb (Australia)
Manufacturing Marketplace
Oil Survey
Paperloop.Com
PetroChemLink
PetroPages.com
Pharmaceutical-Industry.info
Plant Automation.Com

Pollution Online
Power Online
Pharmaceutical Online
Pulp and Paper.Net
Semiconductor Online
Tank Farm Vendor
TechExpo
TechSavvy.com
Thomas Register 
Valve World
Water Online  
WaterWorld

Magazines

Asia-Pacific Chemicals
Automation World
Chemical Engineering 
Chemical Engineering Progress
Chemical Processing
ChemWeek
Control
Control Engineering
Flow Control
Hydrocarbon Processing
Food Processing
Industria (New Zealand)
Industrial Maintenance & Plant Operation
InTech
Maintenance Technology
Modern Plastics
Performance Chemicals
Petroleum News
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Pharmaceutical Technology
Pipe Line and Gas Industry
Plant Engineering
Plant Services
Plastics News
Pulp & Paper
Sensors
Software Strategies
Tappi Journal
World Oil
plus
TechExpo directory of magazines

Consultants / market research

AMR - AMR Research
ARC - Automation Research Corporation
Flow Research
Frost & Sullivan
Gartner Group