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Rotork has installed over 700 CK modular electric actuators at the Shantou wastewater treatment plant in Guangdong, southern China facilities, where they enable sewage treatment to be carried out in accordance with new environmental regulations. In order to comply with these new regulations, three new sewage treatment plants and 300 sewage intercepting wells will be b...

Rotork has launched the IQT Shutdown Battery to provide further operational flexibility to the IQT3 range of part-turn 1-phase, 3-phase and DC electric actuators with the addition of a new integral battery option that provides fail-to-position functionality in explosionproof applications. This pre-programmed movement of the valve on loss of power or communications means ...

Rotork intelligent electric IQ actuators with motorised IB multi-turn bevel gearboxes have been installed on sluice gates adjacent a large river in order to protect the residents and businesses living in a nearby community, with a population of almost 14,000. Community meetings were held for this development and it was decided to enhance the existing flood protection sys...

The customer required a low power, high pressure and high flow solenoid so Bifold FP02 hydraulic solenoids were installed with low powered coils as part of the construction of new wellheads in this project and play a critical role in this application. Wellhead applications require a solution which can operate on minimal power due to the difficulty involved in providing a...

The new four tiered approach proves optimal for identifying the unique needs of a customer and providing appropriate support. These tiers are Health Checks, Planned Maintenance, Enhanced Warranty and Predictive Maintenance. A Health Check is an assessment of actuator asset condition relative to design specification and operational use. Through this, we can help the cu...

The actuators will be installed on a remote header application at one of the world’s largest exporter of crude oil and condensates. This is one of several new build sites in the country. The actuators will be used to control the flow of crude oil from remote header manifolds to nearby refineries for further processing. Rotork’s IQ3 multi-turn actuator allows for unpar...

CK range actuators powered using solar panels are operating knife gate valves to control the emptying of rainwater storage tanks along the road in the central Polish city of Kalisz. This is the first time the CK has been used with photovoltaics in Poland.

The Anglian region stretches from the Humber estuary, north of Grimsby, to the Thames estuary, and from Buckinghamshire to Lowestoft on the east coast. Over 112,000 kilometres of water and sewer pipes supply and transport water and waste water to and from the 1,257 water and water recycling treatment works.

The customers purchased the quarter-turn CVQ electric actuators which will operate ball and v-ball valves on separator skids to control the water extraction process at an onshore natural gas production site in the Surat Basin.

The plant treats water from two separate sources, one for surface water from the surface of a lake and the other for groundwater from the well fields. It is the only municipal drinking water plant owned and operated by the county and has the capacity to process of 84 million gallons per day (mgd) for over 350,000 residents, with up to 30 mgd treated in the separate groun...

The pipeline, which is currently under construction, will stretch across southern India and transport supplies from a key refinery. Due to the large scale of the project, a large number of actuators are required and Rotork’s CMA, IQ and SI ranges have all been specified. The customer selected the CML-1500 and CML-3000 actuators primarily for fail-safe motor operated v...

The City of Chicago Department of Water Management specified over 300 Rotork intelligent IQ actuators combined with IW quarter-turn worm gearboxes and over 200 IQT part-turn actuators to replace water hydraulic cylinders at the Eugene Sawyer Water Purification Plant.

It is ideal for highly critical applications in chemical/petrochemical processes.

Rotork’s IQ intelligent actuators with MTW multi-turn worm gearboxes play a critical role which enables this lock to operate.

Rotork’s CVL1500 and CVL5000 actuators now control the supply of the spray water that is used as an emergency quench in the condensers should the steam turbine trip. The CVL actuator installation was part of a project to improve equipment reliability and obsolescence of older plant.

Rotork CKc actuators provided the customer with a robust and reliable solution together with a reduced maintenance requirement.

The IQ part-turn actuators provided are used on two fireboats, ‘Firefighter 2’ and ‘Firefighter 343’. The actuators have the important duty of controlling the flow of water to the fire nozzles on deck, meaning that they are vital in the event of an emergency.

A Rotork Skilmatic actuator is being used to operate a critical butterfly valve installed on a pipeline feeding the power plant’s turbine at the Repsol site, which is located high up in the Picos de Europa mountains.

Shenzhen Bao'an Three Garbage placed an order for 400 IQ actuators to be used by Shenzhen Energy Environmental Company Ltd at the site, which will have the capacity to process 3,000,000 tonnes of waste per year when complete – the equivalent of 700,000 tonnes of coal per year.

The programme, designed to optimise storage capacity and increase security, involves the automation of tank inlet and outlet valves and firefighting water network valves.

MIR Valve Sdn Bhd ordered 12 RH rack and pinion actuators to control subsea ball valves on a jacket flooding system as part of the Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd Bokor Phase-3 Redevelopment Project which aims to boost production rates. Jacket flooding systems are used to co-ordinate the opening and closing of flooding and venting ballast chambers using seawater to support and...

The Local Hand Station is suitable for applications such as large penstocks, where it is difficult to access the actuator due to height, in chamber applications where the actuator is located below the ground and space is limited or for control when the actuator/device may be in a hazardous location.

Customer Metroval specified Rotork intelligent IQ3 multi-turn electric actuators, as well as CP and GP pneumatic actuators, to control plug and butterfly valves on an FPSO, which will operate in the LIBRA oil fields in the Atlantic Ocean’s Santos Basin. The FPSO operating at the site is expected to produce 180,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

Nearly 100 actuators will control the flow on the Ergene Basin Deep Marine Discharge Project, which will be one of the longest sea discharge lines in Europe, starting in the city of Tekirdag and serving the Turkish capital Istanbul.

The Mechanical Position Indicator provides local valve position indication. The indicator disc is driven by mechanical gearing directly from the actuator output drive and remains connected during electrical and manual override operation of the actuator.

More than 90 CVL linear electric actuators and 184 ExMax quarter-turn electric actuators are to be installed on US fuel cell technology company Doosan Fuel Cell’s project at a Hanhwa Total Co. Ltd plant in Daesan. The actuators will operate globe and ball valves which control the flow of hydrogen gas in fuel cells at the site. Each fuel cell will include two CVL actua...

Neway Valve (Suzhou) Co Ltd has ordered more than 570 IQ3 multi-turn actuators to be installed on gate and ball valves ranging from 8 to 42 inches at the Pengerang Deepwater Petroleum Terminal. The site is operated by Pengerang Terminals (Two) Sdn Bhd. Phase two of the project involved the construction of storage and distribution facilities needed to transport crude o...

The CK Atronik control module houses a reversing contactor starter with mechanical and electrical interlocking, a proven and reliable Rotork design for electric actuation. Connection to a suitable power supply is all that is required for local operation of the actuator. Digital microprocessor driven functionality delivers reliable motor control for isolating, regulati...

Third generational IQ multi-turn electric actuators have been installed on eight penstock gate valves to control the flow of wastewater entering the STP in Murrumba Downs, a suburb in the country’s state of Queensland. End user Unitywater owns 17 STPs in the Moreton Bay, Sunshine Coast and Noosa regions of Australia. It operates 15 of these sites where sewage is treat...

Rotork IQ3 multi-turn actuators have been commissioned for two Navigator Terminals road fuel and crude storage tanks at its North Tees hub in Middlesbrough. The site, which is split into Inland and Marine terminals, supplies the North East of the UK and has connecting pipelines to a neighbouring Navigator Terminals storage facility, Seal Sands, on the north bank of the ...

Suitable for use in all industries, the Rotork Master Station is capable of operating up to 240 actuators across three separate field networks allowing the optimum network to be used in different plant areas. It now supports Modbus® RTU protocol with third party device integration and Pakscan™ Classic, Rotork’s standard two-wire loop system, which has more than 170,000 ...

Located in the oilfields of West Texas and New Mexico, the intelligent systems allow for the remote operation of single-stage isolation and modulating valves to control the flow of produced water in a high-pressure pipeline network. To assist with the water treatment operation, automated valve technology is needed to control flow in the water gathering pipelines, which c...

Awarded to Rotork Malaysia, the CSP will run for two years initially, with the option to extend to four. It is designed to meet the company’s specific needs, encompassing 157 Rotork electric actuators, a Rotork Master Station and Pakscan control loop testing facility. The Rotork CSP offers a tailor-made service designed to increase reliability and availability of val...

The new optional modular Rotork plug and socket interface provides a fast connect / disconnect option for IQ3 multi-turn and IQT3 part-turn actuators, encompassing 3-phase, 1-phase and DC (IQT3 only) electrical variants and including many actuators with explosionproof EXd enclosures conforming to ATEX, IECEx, CSA and CSAus international standards. The plug and socket ter...

More than 2,500 Rotork IQ3 electric actuators have been installed at a Chinese oil refinery and petrochemical complex. Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical Company Ltd, which refines oil and manufactures chemical products, ordered the actuators for the refinery which is in construction on the island of Zhoushan, near Shanghai. The actuators operate gate valves, ball valve...

Rotork has received major contracts to supply electric and pneumatic valve actuators and valve gearboxes to Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery Co. Ltd. for flow control in its new refinery and petrochemicals complex, one of the largest in China, at Changxing Island in Dalian City. The latest contract involves approximately 2,000 explosionproof electric actuators to ...