Butterfly valve is a kind of valve, is installed on a pipe, used to control the circulation of medium in a pipe. Butterfly valve is characterized by a simple structure, light weight, the components of the transmission device, valve body, valve plate, valve stem, valve seat and so on. And it includes Wafer Butterfly Valve, Lug Butterfly Valve and Double Flange Butterfly Valve. Compared with other valve types, the butterfly valve has a small opening and closing moment, fast switching speed, and also the most labor-saving. The most obvious performance is the manual butterfly valve.
The opening and closing part of the butterfly valve is a disk-shaped butterfly plate, which rotates around the valve stem in the valve body. It only rotates 90 to fully open the butterfly valve. When the butterfly valve is fully opened, only the thickness of the butterfly plate is the flow resistance of the medium in the pipeline, and the flow resistance is very small.
Butterfly valve is very versatile, almost in our daily production and life, you can see the figure of the butterfly valve. Generally speaking, butterfly valve is suitable for all kinds of water and some normal temperature and pressure fluid media, such as our domestic water pipe, fire water pipe, circulating water pipe, sewage pipe can use butterfly valve as flow control and regulation; in addition, some powder, oil, mud medium pipeline is also suitable for butterfly valve; butterfly valve can also be used in ventilation pipe.
Compared to other valves, butterfly valves are more suitable for large-diameter valves, because they are smaller, lighter, easier and cheaper in the same size as other types of valves. When the diameter gets bigger and bigger, the advantage of the butterfly valve becomes more and more obvious.
Although the butterfly valve can be used to adjust the flow in the pipeline, but usually in the small diameter pipeline butterfly valve is rarely used to adjust the flow, one is because it is not easy to adjust, the other is because the butterfly valve sealing performance and the same flow adjustment of the globe valve, ball valve, there is a certain gap.
Butterfly valve has a Rubber Seated Butterfly Valve and a hard seal Valve, the two different sealing forms of butterfly valve use is also different. Butterfly Valve also have two types: Concentric butterfly valve and Eccentric butterfly valve.
Soft sealing butterfly valve has good sealing performance, but it is not resistant to high temperature and high pressure environment, so it is generally used for water, air, oil and other weak acid and alkaline media.
Hard sealed butterfly valve can be used in high temperature and high pressure environment, and corrosion resistance, generally used in chemical industry, smelting and other complex working conditions.
The transmission mode of butterfly valve is not the same, and the use is also different. Usually, the butterfly valve installed with electric device or pneumatic device will be used in some certain dangerous conditions, such as high altitude pipe, toxic and harmful medium pipe, the manual butterfly valve is not suitable for manual operation, so the electric butterfly valve or pneumatic butterfly valve is needed.
Post time: Jan-18-2024
