General Service Vs. High-Performance Butterfly Valves: What's the Difference? There’s a lot that goes into choosing the right butterfly valve for your application. Different butterfly valves are built to withstand different temperatures and pressure levels, so it’s important you know the ins and outs of your...
Butterfly valves are used for large-scale processing applications that require quick, leak-proof opening and closing. A triple offset butterfly valve is a type of butterfly valve specially engineered to fix the shortcomings of other butterfly valve types. By design, it is the highest level of...
Whether it’s for commercial or personal use, choosing the right valve to regulate fluid flow is important. Butterfly valves are one of the best types of valves to use for this purpose, due to their simple but effective design, relatively low cost, and low-maintenance qualities. Butterfly valves...
High-performance butterfly valves are an essential component for any company that needs to control the flow of gases or liquids. Although butterfly valves have been used since the early 1930s, their use as an effective, low maintenance mechanism to regulate fluid flow has only recently...
In short, a butterfly valve is a quarter turn rotational motion valve. Just like any other valve, they are used to either start, stop, and regulate flow. This type of valve has been around since the early 1930s and has a wide range of applications...
What Does “Value Valve” Mean? Let's face it, looking for butterfly valves can be confusing. And most companies give their butterfly valves a name that don't mean anything! That's why we call ours Value Valve “a Value in Valving” so you'll know the valve you're getting...
It's important to select the right tool for your flow system. Controlling liquid flow is a critical task that can be accomplished by a great high-performance or triple offset butterfly valve. However, what actually makes a good offset valve? Each offset valve has its own...
SIL 101: How Safe Do I Need to Be? The global importance of SIL (Safety Integrity Levels) has grown substantially in the oil/gas, petrochemical and other process industries over the last 20 years. However, for many end users, systems integrators, and product vendors, SIL is still...
The Butterfly Valve In simple words, a butterfly valve is a type of quarter turn valve used to regulate or stop the flow of liquids through a pipe. A quarter turn valve means that whenever the Operator is turned 90 degrees, the valve is either fully...
Choosing the right valve is essential for a successful operation of any flow system that needs to control liquid flow. How do butterfly valves work and what differentiates them from each other you may be wondering? Each offset valve has functionality and benefits of their...
