June 2025
Valves, Pumps, Turbomachinery and Compression
New alternatives for severe service urea letdown valve applications
This article describes recently introduced control valve designs for urea applications that extend service life while making any required maintenance much easier.
The Authors
Justin Goodwin is a Business Development Leader for Emerson, focused on custom control valve solutions. He has 19 yr of experience with severe service control valve design, engineering management and product management, including 5 yr leading Emerson’s global steam conditioning valve business. Goodwin earned a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Iowa State University, and a BA degree in applied math from Grand View University.
Matthew Wagner is the Chemical Industry Manager for Emerson’s Flow Controls products. In this role, he is responsible for long-term strategy planning for the chemical team, and for managing the daily chemical business of Emerson Flow Controls. Wagner earned BS degrees in chemical engineering and microbiology.
Related Articles
- Best practices to achieve highest integrity isolation for black powder-generated gas processes
- From compliance to safe operations: Why relief systems design documentation matters in LNG facilities
- Improving isolation valve reliability in delayed coker units: Field experience-driven design enhancements
- Process instrumentation and data analytics merge, powering optimization
- Integrate people into process safety: The complete framework for operator actions and interventions in functional safety—Part 1
- Capital efficient ethane cracking: Quantifying the tradeoffs between full recovery and streamlined configurations
Comments