Flowrox, the global supplier of heavy-duty industrial valve manufacturing and services, will exhibit at the Phosphates 2015 International Conference & Exhibition to be held at the Marriott Tampa Waterside Hotel in Tampa, Florida on March 23-25, where it will highlight its “extensive knowledge of the dynamics and challenges of processing slurry such as phosphates, which often produce scaling due to the process of moving powders and coarse substances through pipelines.” Currently in its 8th edition, the Phosphates International Conference presents a global point of convergence for networking and trading in the fertiliser, industrial and feed phosphate industries; all of great interest to Flowrox, given their use of slurry pipelines to process phosphate salts.

Understanding slurry dynamics was instrumental in Flowrox’s development of its Scaling Watch and SKW Heavy Duty Slurry Knife, a pair of products designed to help phosphate processing operators monitor and control the flow of phosphate slurries. The Flowrox Scaling Watch is actively used in the mining industry to proactively detect buildup that can lead to scaling that reduces the flow of materials. Complementing the Scaling Watch is the SKW Heavy Duty Slurry Knife, designed to control the flow of fluids – an industrial need in high demand by the mining industry given the coarse nature of its slurry and the potential for clogging or jamming.

Anthony Clark, Flowrox Vice President of Sales, will be delivering a presentation during the event, focused on the Flowrox Scaling Watch and the use of a tomographic instrumentation to monitor scaling in phosphate production and processing. The aforementioned sensor allows producers to utilise a non-intrusive instrument to accurate display real-time scale growth; thus providing the user with useful data to help them minimise anti-scaling chemicals, validate the effectiveness of anti-scaling chemicals and minimise lost production, equipment failures, and costly maintenance caused by scaling. “Any decrease in fluid movement is often tied to a loss of revenue in an industry that depends on optimal pipeline performance,” said Todd Loudin, President of Flowrox. “Our products have been engineered to keep our customers’ pipelines operational and profitable.”