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Our partners, company Flowserve, takes part in the 25th Caspian Oil & Gas Conference in Baku, Azerbajdjan. the forum gathers each year specialists from different organizations, experts, developers of know-how and managers of the highest level to discuss the hottest issues of oil and gas projects in the region, as well as providing security of energy supply.

Flowserve is going to present at their booth #2035 the latest products for oil and gas.You will be able to take a closer look at products as well as communicate with Flowserve experts, learn more about safety, durability and performance of Flowserve equipment. You can speak with Flowserve’s Europe, Middle East and Africa-based specialists in pumps, wet seals, dry gas seals and valves who have extensive knowledge of original equipment and aftermarket oil and gas applications. Find answers to your questions and smart solutions for your enterprises.

Learn more about specialized products such as ebulated PR pumps, delayed coking units and high-temperature process slurry pumps for catalytic cracking. Flowserve announces demonstration of solutions like new electric rotating compressor seal gas booster, Ampliflow G-Boost and the latest Logix 3800 positioner that features powerful diagnostics that identify field problems and expedite corrective actions to ensure reduced return-to-operation times.

Visit Flowserve booth at Caspian Oil & Gas 2018, learn more about the latest solutions for industry and we assist you to choose and integrate ones that are the most suitable for your needs!

Natural sunlight makes us feel better and even more concentrated. However, what to do if there is not that much neither light, nor windows? BASF specialists propose a smart solution! It opens a lot of opportunities for augmentation of comfort. Whether your room doesn’t have windows at all, or you work in the metal-and-glass office, BASF system allows to distribute light in a smart way.

A façade element made with a special foil is used to capture and transmit sunlight. This façade element can be integrated invisibly into the façade, giving the architect complete creative freedom for design. As soon as the sunlight has been captured and concentrated, it is transported through the light tunnels to the interior of the building. The range depends on the height of the tunnels installed. Finally, inside the building, the lighting fixtures distribute the light in the rooms. The lighting fixtures are combined with LED components to intelligently modulate the light. 1:10 scaled model of the system has already been presented within Light+Building 2018 exhibition in Frankfurt.

BASF daylight system can be widely used to enhance characteristics of such places as schools, hospitals, trade centers and office buildings. Humans feel better in the beams of natural light and moreover the amount of  illnesses decreases. On the other hand, utilisation of natural light allows to reduce usage of electric lights.

The idea of daylight management is not that new. Italian company CoeLux manufactures “daylight windows” since 2009. They fill rooms even on the rainy day with natural sunlight. 2015, BASF started researches. They achieved a great scope, since the system allows not only to imitate sunlight, but to capture sunlight directly from façade and to manage it. The first prototype of the system is aready installed in the headquater of Bartenbach GmbH in Austria.

Some weeks ago we wrote about unexpected applications of Flowserve equipment. It’s broadly used for snow producing at ski resorts and even at the Olympics in Pyongyang. This week we come back to the surprising investments of corporations.

BASF. The giant of chemical industry does its best to stay in avant-garde. BASF 3D Printing Solutions GmbH keeps growing and creating successful collaborations with talented startups and big 3D-printing companies.

2012-2013, a new division engaged in materials and additives production for 3d-printing was formed in corporation. It became truly serious and large-scaled by mid-2017. Now it has a well-developed material production, has a range of customers. The company has already been even a general sponsor of annual conference AMUG. Among the industries targeted are aerospace, automotive, and consumer goods production.

In November, BASF 3D Printing Solutions GmbH, a subsidiary of BASF New Business GmbH dedicated to additive manufacturing, announced that it was entering into a strategic alliance with German technology startup BigRep for developing industrial 3D printing solutions, including 3D printers and materials. This can be the way for brand-new BASF materials, such as plastic and metal filaments, photopolymers, to meet printers, that are big enough to reach the new production level. The most recent inventions let manufacturers produce the most complicated details with individual designs, that speeds up prototyping, development and final production. Meanwhile, the costs don’t grow a lot.

It doesn’t matter, if you produce oil, baby furniture or even aerospace ships, BASF products let you stay ahead and get more effectiveness day by day!

We love sunlight. A great amount of energy streams from the sky, we try to catch it and convert into something. However, we are to recognize that at the current moment it’s not that much cost-effective to use solar power. Our company doesn’t deal with solar plants mainly for the reason that we still don’t know, how to make it cost-effective and profitable for our customers. Meanwhile, german scientists at the Aerospace centre announced success of Contisol testing. The one is a solar reactor that takes advantage of concentrated solar power in order to run day and night.

Concentrated solar power involves the use of mirrors or lenses to redirect and concentrate a large area of sunlight, and by extension solar thermal energy, onto a small area. Rather than converting solar power directly into electricity, however, Contisol directs concentrated solar power into a reactor with multiple channels.

Meanwhile into reactor half of these channels are used to catalyze reaction of hydrogen production using solar power, while the other half use solar energy to heat air to temperatures greater than 1,000oC, the products of which are stored as thermal energy. During the night, when solar energy is no longer available, the stored energy from the heated channels is redirected to the other channels, where the production of hydrogen can continue.

Therefore Contisol builds two reactors together, one where sunlight is directly doing chemical processing. The other side for storing energy. This lets the plant to solve simultaneously two important issues. 1) The production doesn’t ceases, when the sun sets. 2) nuclear reaction operates effectively in stable and safe environment.

Although it’s clear that such experiments are still only scientists deal and they are far from commercial use and significant figures of several MW power production, it’s such a pleasure to realize that we are getting closer to conquesting one of the most clean and reliable energy sources.

The customers used to recognize Flowserve as an important manufacturer of high-quality equipment for oil and gas, power and chemical industries. Meanwhile, the company integrates its products into snow-making systems worldwide since early 1980-s.
Flowserve vertical turbine double casing pumps (VPC) and vertical turbine wet-pit pumps (VTP) along with seal systems and digital technologies are widely used in snow-making systems at ski resorts and winter sports venues around the world. These pumps provide a possibility to design a flow control station that keeps constant discharge pressure, without fluctuation, for optimum snow-making results. At the same time, Flowserve vertical turbine pumps are the preferred choice in a business where performance on-demand is critical to success.
The snow-making system at PyeongChang includes more than 20 Flowserve vertical turbine high-pressure pumps, which pull the large amounts of water into the system that is needed to make snow. The company is proud of taking part into such a great event that makes the world better.
We congratulate our partners and as official distributors we are glad to implement projects of any difficulty, based on the high-quality reliable Flowserve equipment.

Nothing will stand out in 2018 as more important for the long-term success of renewables than the advancement of a digital grid architecture.

Visibility at the grid edge; integration of sensors and data analytics for distributed generation; smart contracts for energy management; flexible demand; intelligent control systems — these are the buzzy technologies of today that will become standard operations for utilities, system operators, and power producers to maximize the global renewable energy fleet. Simultaneously, we get clearer understanding, how the two-way system operation can be implemetnted for providing the success.

For example, we saw smart inverters made requisite in certain regions. Unlike their predecessors, smart inverters for solar or storage can ride out frequency or voltage events on the grid, giving utilities a hand in keeping the grid stable. Next year, watch for more policy makers to pave the way for utilities to use smart inverters for grid stability, and regulators to work with entities that can create new communications standards to talk to the grid.

Smart grids that allow to control in real time energy producing by all the sources get more widespread. The create a single huge network by connecting big plants between each other and with local generation spots (solar or wind, for instance). Such a network provides real-time data on renewables productivity, allows to estimate efficiency and to control distribution.

And in Scotland, a recent trial showed the success of what’s called “active network management” — an integrated system of demand-side management, large-scale energy storage and monitoring and control through software. Watch for the results of that demonstration project to be extrapolated for use on the greater U.K. grid.

Smart inverters, smart controls, smart networks — it’s all about digital smarts, and expect more to come next year. It’s crucial to understand that for fulfillment of customers’ needs not only amount of produced energy, but also its smart distribution matters. Smart technologies keep continuously proving it. And that’s what lets us hope that approach to estimation of renewables efficiency will be revised.

Happy New Year!