Frequently Asked Questions About Valves

Why can't the double seal valve be used as a shut-off valve?
The advantage of the double-seat valve core is that it has a force-balanced structure that allows a large pressure difference. However, its outstanding disadvantage is that the two sealing surfaces cannot make good contact at the same time, causing large leakage. If it is used artificially and compulsorily in cutting-off situations, the effect will obviously not be good. Even if many improvements are made for it (such as double sealing sleeve valve), it is not advisable.
Why is the double-seat valve easy to oscillate when working with a small opening?
For a single core, when the medium is flow-open, the valve has good stability; when the medium is flow-closed, the valve has poor stability. The double-seat valve has two valve cores. The lower valve core is closed and the upper valve core is open. In this way, when working at a small opening, the closed-flow valve core will easily cause vibration of the valve. This is a double-seat valve. The reason why it cannot be used for small opening work.
Which straight-stroke control valve has poor anti-clogging performance and which quarter-stroke valve has good anti-clogging performance?
The spool of a straight stroke valve is a vertical throttling device, while the medium flows in and out horizontally. The flow path in the valve cavity must turn and reverse, making the flow path of the valve quite complicated (the shape is like an inverted S-shape). In this way, there are many dead zones, which provide space for the sedimentation of the medium, which in the long run will cause blockage. The throttling direction of the quarter-turn valve is the horizontal direction. The medium flows in horizontally and flows out horizontally, which can easily take away the dirty medium. At the same time, the flow path is simple and there is little space for the medium to settle, so the quarter-turn valve has good anti-blocking performance.
Why do quarter-turn valves have a large cut-off pressure difference?
The cut-off pressure difference of the quarter-turn valve is large because the resultant force generated by the medium on the valve core or valve plate exerts a very small torque on the rotating shaft. Therefore, it can withstand a large pressure difference.
Why is the stem of a straight stroke regulating valve thinner?
It involves a simple mechanical principle: large sliding friction and small rolling friction. The valve stem of a straight stroke valve moves up and down. If the packing is pressed a little tighter, it will wrap the valve stem very tightly, resulting in a large hysteresis. To this end, the valve stem is designed to be very small, and the packing often uses PTFE packing with a small friction coefficient in order to reduce the hysteresis. However, the problem derived from this is that a thin valve stem is easy to bend, and the packing life is also short. To solve this problem, the best way is to use a rotary valve stem, that is, a quarter-stroke regulating valve. Its valve stem is 2 to 3 times thicker than a straight-stroke valve stem, and it uses graphite filler with long life and high valve stem stiffness. Well, the packing life is long, What is a hard seal?
The leakage of the shut-off valve is required to be as low as possible. The leakage of the soft seal valve is the lowest. The shut-off effect is of course good, but it is not wear-resistant and has poor reliability. From the dual standards of small leakage and reliable sealing, soft seal cutting is not as good as hard seal cutting. For example, the full-function ultra-light control valve is sealed and protected by wear-resistant alloy. It has high reliability and a leakage rate of 10 to 7, which can already meet the requirements of a shut-off valve.