Piping Valves

Valves

Valves are major component in Piping Engineering. Variety of valves are used depending on main function, fluid type and other operating parameters.

American Petroleum Institute defines standards for oil and natural gas industry. There is standards for …Read More..
Valve selection is a important activity of a material engineer or process engineer. Key to …Read More..
Frequently used types of valves are Gate Valve, Globe Valve, Ball Valve, Check Valve, Butterfly …Read More..
Gate valve has a flat disc called gate that travels perpendicular to the flow stream. …Read More..
Globe valves contain a horizontal circular disc and seat ring.  They are primarily used for …Read More..
Ball valves have a ball as a disc with a hole of either same diameter …Read More..
Check Valves are used to stop reversal of a flow in a piping system, e.g. …Read More..
Butterfly valve consists of a circular disc in fluid path which swings 90 degrees or …Read More..
Needle valve is a small valve used for flow control and for dosing liquids and …Read More..
Plug valves are also known as cocks. They have cylindrical as well as tapered discs. They …Read More..
There are different kinds of special valves used in EPC Industry along with regular ones …Read More..