Industrial Valves and Pumps
A valve is a device that regulates the flow of gases, liquids or other fluids by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways. Valves play a vital role in our daily life. You operate a valve to turn on a water faucet, a gas range, use your water heater or others. In addition to our homes, valves are also essential to all manufacturing processes, every industrial plant and system.
Valtorc Valves Are Tested And Proven to Last
There are a large variety of control valves and valve configurations for a wide variety of purposes and conditions, such as different uses, different fluids, different materials and different pressure and temperature conditions.
Characteristics of Valve by Type
| Item | Control Valves |
V-Port Ball Valves |
Ball Valves | Butterfly Valves |
| Disc position when opened completely | Fluid does not remain in flow passage | Fluid remains in flow passage | Fluid does not remain in flow passage | Fluid remains in flow passage |
| Disc actuation | Vertical | Vertical | Rotary | Rotary |
| Manual mode of operation | Round handle | Round handle | Lever handle Round handle | Lever handle Gear operated |
| Automatic mode of operation | Pneumatic / Electric actuator | Pneumatic / Electric actuator | Pneumatic / Electric actuator | Pneumatic / Electric actuator |
| Application | On-Off | On-Off control | Automatic on-off types can be controlled | Automatic on-off types can be controlled |
| Operating temperature range | Wide | Wide | Narrow | Narrowest |
| Operating pressure range | Wide | Wide | Slightly narrow | Narrow |
| Face-to-face dimension | Long | Longest | Long | Short |
| Weight | Heavy | Heavy | Heavy | Light |