The rugged, one-piece, forged Power ball valve, is built to take the toughest steam isolation applications in your plant – vent, drain, blowoff, intermittent blowdown – with the performance and reliability that you have come to expect from Velan.
In reduced port ball valves, flow through the valve is one pipe size smaller than the valve’s pipe size resulting in flow area becoming lesser than pipe. But the flow discharge remains constant as it is a Multipler factor of Flow discharge(Q) is equal to Area of Flow (A) into Velocity (V). A1V1=A2V2 i.e the Velocity increase with reduced Area of flow and Velocity decreases with increased area of flow. Bibcocks
A V port ball valve has either a ‘v’ shaped ball or a ‘v’ shaped seat. This allows the orifice to be opened and closed in a more controlled manner with a closer to linear flow characteristic. When the valve is in the closed position and opening is commenced the small end of the ‘v’ is opened first allowing stable flow control during this stage. This type of design requires a generally more robust construction due to higher velocities of the fluids, which would quickly damage a standard valve.
A trunnion ball valve has a mechanical means of anchoring the ball at the top and the bottom, this design is usually applied on larger and higher pressure valves (say, 4″ and above 600 psi and above).
