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Design

How the EPA's Emissions Rule May Impact Actuator Choices

The move toward net zero emissions by 2050 was just released as part of the COP28 meeting in Dubai.

Design

High Performance Butterfly Valve Completes Million-Cycle Test

Flowserve’s Valtek Valdisk is licensor-approved for pressure swing adsorption applications that require tight shutoff during high cycles and bi-directional flows.

Manufacturing

Editor's Product Picks

New Digital Operations Solutions from Baker Hughes Baker Hughes announced multiple new digital solutions and investments to advance more intelligent and energy-efficient operations.

Manufacturing

Erosive Pulp & Paper Systems Require Proper Valve Selection

As new recycled paper plants are being built for the first time in decades, not only do paper companies have opportunities to grow revenue but so do service suppliers such as valve companies.

Design

Flowserve Introduces Reduced Port Flanged Ball Valves

The Worcester 51/52 have been re-engineered for global availability by standardizing design, materials, construction and product certifications.

Technical

Bray Launches New Cx Line Products at ValveWorld Expo

Bray is showing its newest line of butterfly valves at this year’s ValveWorld Expo in Dusseldorf.

Cryogenic Valve from Flowserve Designed to Help Control Fugitive Emissions

New valve provides high reliability and uptime while ensuring global compliance with fire-safe and environmental standards.

Design

Understanding Torque for Quarter-Turn Valves

Valve manufacturers publish torques for their products so that actuation and mounting hardware can be properly selected.

Neles Q-Disc Helps Improve Process Performance in Control Valve Applications

Valmet expands its versatile butterfly valve product range. The Neles Q-Disc joins Valmet’s lineup of the modular Neles Neldisc and the Jamesbury Wafer-Sphere butterfly valve platform.

Education

An Overview of Butterfly Valves

A key advantage of selecting a butterfly valve is the reduction of space and weight to a system compared with other options such as ball, check, globe or gate valves.

Education

Ball Valve Basics

Welcome to the first in a series of Valve Basics articles, each focused on a major product type and written especially for newcomers to the industries that use and make valves and related products.

Manufacturing

The Biggest Valves: Sizes Growing in Step with Greater Demand

Valve manufacturers that have the expertise, skills, equipment and facilities to produce large valves are rare.

Design

Creating a Standard for Severe Service Valves

Severe service valves are offered in several standard designs, including non-return, isolation and control types.

MRO

Unico Mechanical Awarded Contract for US Army Corps of Engineers

Company will overhaul two 216-in. butterfly valves at Fort Peck Dam in Montana.

Education

Triple Offset Butterfly Valves

From time to time VALVEmagazine.com will open up the archives and re-publish some of our most popular articles from years past.

Applications

The Basics of Eccentric Plug Valves

Wastewater systems present many challenges to pumps and valves because the flow can contain grit, solids and debris, depending where in the process the equipment is located.

Technical

Conval: Camseal Metal-Seated Ball Valves Feature New Stem Position Indicator Disc

Conval recently announced that its popular Camseal© metal-seated, forged ball valves feature a new Stem Position Indicator Disc for easy, precise on-site identification and inspection of the open-close status of the valve.

Technical

Evolution of Butterfly Valves on Aircraft Carriers

Butterfly valves are an integral part of keeping an aircraft carrier’s firemain system operating smoothly.

Technical

Unique Operating Dynamics of Trunnion-Mounted Ball Valves

For a very long time, the idea has existed that a trunnion-mounted ball valve can be opened under full differential pressure if the piping system can withstand the rapid increase in pressure and the forces induced by it.

Education

Ball Valve Repair 101

From time to time, we are re-posting well-received or particularly valuable articles that have previously run on VALVEMagazine.com so that those who might have missed them will be able to catch up on the best of the best.

Design

The Evolution of the All-Encompassing Ball Valve

The compact design, simplicity of use, ease of repair and wide performance capability have helped to make the ball valve a dominant design in modern industrial applications.

Education

Triple Offset Butterfly Valves

Since their introduction to the market more than 50 years ago, triple offset valves (TOVs), which are also known as triple eccentric valves, have continued to evolve, while uses for this type of valve have expanded across multiple industries.

MRO

Tightening Bolts Can Help Tighten Budgets

In highly-corrosive chemical and refining applications where in-line and atmospheric sealing is critical, sleeved plug valves provide essential defense against leaks and fugitive emissions.

Technical

AUMA: New Solutions for Oil and Gas Applications

AUMA has developed new actuation solutions for a range of specialized oil and gas applications, including an innovative approach for lift plug valves.

Technical

New API Standard for Globe Valves

While the American Petroleum Institute (API) and other organizations published a variety of valve standards covering gate, ball, check, butterfly and plug valves for decades, the first for globe valves came out in 2013.

Design

Forensic Engineering Tracks Valve Failures

Due in part to the condominium boom, there have been a large number of suite HVAC unit isolation brass ball valve failures reported in fan coil or heat pump based heating/cooling systems high rise buildings.

Technical

Cameron Announces Joint Venture with CNPC

Cameron has announced an agreement with CNPC to establish a joint venture for the manufacture of pipeline ball valves mainly for use by CNPC to support its plans to build pipeline across China in the coming decade.

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