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What is the reason for the poor sealing of the valve

Where there is a pipeline, the valve is inseparable. The valve is installed on the pipeline and controls the flow of the fluid medium in the pipeline. It is an important control component. But the valve is also a wearable part. A common valve loss in our life is that the valve is not tightly sealed, resulting in leakage. So what is the reason for the poor

marine valve seat

marine valve seat

sealing of the valve?
The leakage at the packing of the valve is a part of the valve that is prone to leakage failures. The valve is not tightly sealed, and the reasons are probably as follows.
1. Sealing auxiliary structure
Under the change of temperature or sealing force, the structure of the sealing pair will change. And this change will affect and change the force between the sealing pair, so that the performance of the valve sealing is reduced. Therefore, when choosing a seal, be sure to choose a seal with elastic deformation. At the same time, pay attention to the width of the sealing surface. The reason is that the contact surfaces of the sealing pair cannot be completely matched. When the width of the sealing surface increases, the force required for sealing is increased.
2. Specific pressure of sealing surface
The specific pressure of the sealing surface affects the sealing performance of the valve and the service life of the valve. Therefore, the specific pressure of the sealing surface is also a very important factor. Under the same conditions, too high specific pressure will cause valve damage, but too low specific pressure will cause valve leakage. Therefore, we need to fully consider the appropriateness of the specific pressure when designing
3. Physical properties of the medium
The physical properties of the medium also affect the valve sealing performance. These physical properties include temperature, viscosity, and hydrophilicity of the surface, among others. The temperature change not only affects the slackness of the sealing pair and the change of the size of the parts, but also has an inseparable relationship with the viscosity of the gas. Gas viscosity increases or decreases with increasing or decreasing temperature. Therefore, in order to reduce the influence of temperature on the sealing performance of the valve, when designing the sealing pair, we should design it as a valve with thermal compensation such as an elastic valve seat. Viscosity is related to the permeability of the fluid. When under the same conditions, the higher the viscosity, the lower the permeability of the fluid. The hydrophilicity of the surface means that when there is a film on the metal surface, the film should be removed. Because of this very thin oil film, it will destroy the hydrophilicity of the surface, resulting in blockage of fluid channels.
4. The quality of the sealing pair
The quality of the sealing pair mainly means that we must check the selection, matching and manufacturing accuracy of materials. For example, the valve disc fits well with the valve seat sealing surface, which can improve the sealing performance. The characteristic of many circumferential waviness is that its labyrinth sealing performance is good.

TH Valve is a professional manufacturer of butterfly valvegate valvecheck valveglobe valveknife gate valve, ball valve with API, JIS, DIN standard, used in Oil, Gas, Marine industry, Water supply and drainage, fire fighting, shipbuilding, water treatment and other systems, with Nominal Diameter of DN50 to DN1200, NBR/EPDM/VITON, Certificates & Approvals: DNV-GL, Lloyds, DNV, BV, API, ABS, CCS. Standards: EN 593, API609, API6D

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What to consider when choosing a suitable resilient seated gate valve

The soft-seal /resilient seated gate valve is widely used. It is favored by users because it overcomes the product defects such as poor sealing and rust of ordinary gate valves. The soft sealing gate valve has a unique elastic seat seal to achieve a good sealing effect. The soft sealing gate valve is easy to open and close, reliable in sealing, good elastic

DIN-F4-BB-NRS-soft seated-wedge gate valve-DN100-PN16-copper holding ring-handwheel (3)

DIN-F4-BB-NRS-soft seated-wedge gate valve-DN100-PN16-copper holding ring-handwheel (3)

memory and long service life. It can be widely used as a regulating and intercepting device on the pipelines of tap water, sewage, construction, petroleum, chemical industry, food, medicine, textile, electric power, shipbuilding, metallurgy, energy system, etc.
To choose a resilient seated gate valve, you must first select the corresponding product according to the use environment, that is, the difference in the medium. Followed by some other technical parameters such as specifications, models and pressures. The correct selection can ensure the performance characteristics of the soft seal gate valve to the extreme, as well as the good operation of the pipeline, extend the service life of the pipeline, pump, and valve, and achieve the expected use effect of production. There are many types of rubber, but the best and economical ones are nitrile rubber and natural rubber. As an elastic sealing pair, they have high elasticity, high tensile strength, good abrasion resistance and drought resistance. Operating temperature range: about -60℃~80 ℃ Non-corrosive or general corrosive medium, can be water, gas, etc.
Soft seal gate valve, the inner cavity surface of the valve is not lined or covered with various rubbers, suitable for various working temperatures and fluid pipelines. Relatively speaking, as a resilient seated gate valve, rubber gate valves are not as resistant to high temperature and corrosion as fluorine-lined gate valves, which is a disadvantage of rubber seals. Fluorine-lined gate valve, also known as fluoroplastic-lined corrosion-resistant valve, is to place PTFE resin on the inner wall of steel or iron valve pressure-bearing parts or the outer surface of valve inner parts by moulding or inlaying, and use it in The unique performance of anti-corrosive medium is made into various valves.
When choosing a resilient seated gate valve, you must fully consider the main issues of medium, temperature, pressure, caliber, etc., to ensure that the use of the valve conforms to the working conditions and the characteristics of the product itself, and to maintain the service life.

TH Valve is a professional manufacturer of butterfly valvegate valvecheck valveglobe valveknife gate valve, ball valve with API, JIS, DIN standard, used in Oil, Gas, Marine industry, Water supply and drainage, fire fighting, shipbuilding, water treatment and other systems, with Nominal Diameter of DN50 to DN1200, NBR/EPDM/VITON, Certificates & Approvals: DNV-GL, Lloyds, DNV, BV, API, ABS, CCS. Standards: EN 593, API609, API6D

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factors affecting the sealing performance of resilient butterfly valve seat

Rubber butterfly valve is an important part of regulating flow medium, and tight sealing is the most important quality of the product. The sealing performance of rubber butterfly valves is affected by many factors, and the most important influence is still closely related to the sealing surface. Today we will focus on three factors. Let’s take a

Wafer type butterfly valve with worm gear

Wafer type butterfly valve with worm gear

look at the main factors that affect the sealing performance of rubber butterfly valves:

1. Quality of the sealing surface/valve seat
First of all, we must make it clear that the sealing surface refers to the part where the valve seat and the disc are in contact with each other for medium opening and closing control, and only which part of the valve seat and the disc are in contact instead of the entire sealing pair. The quality of the sealing surface is mainly related to the quality of the sealing material. The quality of the sealing material should be produced by the brand manufacturer and qualified in process. In addition, the choice of sealing material should be in line with the medium. For example, rubber butterfly valves cannot be used for highly corrosive media.

2. Width of sealing surface/valve seat
The width of the sealing surface mainly affects the movement resistance of the fluid. The larger the sealing surface, the lower the resistance, and the narrower the resistance is relatively large. Therefore, the increase in the width of the sealing surface can reduce the erosion and wear of the sealing surface by the fluid. At the same time, because the increase in the width of the sealing surface increases the length of the leakage stroke proportionally, the leakage can be reduced proportionally. However, the width of the sealing surface must not be excessively increased, because an increase in the width of the sealing surface, under the same sealing force, the reduction of the specific pressure of the seal will increase the possibility of leakage.

3. The pressure difference between before and after the valve
The specific pressure on the sealing surface is caused by the pressure difference between the front and rear of the valve and the applied sealing force, which refers to the pressure acting on a unit area of ​​the sealing surface. The specific pressure directly affects the sealing performance, reliability and service life of the rubber butterfly valve. When the specific pressure on the sealing surface is small and the surface roughness is low, the leakage increases rapidly. When the specific pressure on the sealing surface is large, the effect of surface roughness on the leakage is significantly reduced.

In addition, the sealing performance of the rubber butterfly valve is related to the sealing surface material of the butterfly valve and its processing state, the nature of the medium, the existence of the sealing oil film, the rigidity and structural characteristics of the closing part, and so on. For more information, please call Tanghai for inquiries, and we will have professionals to answer your questions about butterfly valves.

TH Valve is a professional manufacturer of butterfly valvegate valvecheck valveglobe valveknife gate valve, ball valve with API, JIS, DIN standard, used in Oil, Gas, Marine industry, Water supply and drainage, fire fighting, shipbuilding, water treatment and other systems, with Nominal Diameter of DN50 to DN1200, NBR/EPDM/VITON, Certificates & Approvals: DNV-GL, Lloyds, DNV, BV, API, ABS, CCS. Standards: EN 593, API609, API6D

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Factors affect the sealing performance of butterfly valves

For the choice of butterfly valve, sealing is the most important attribute, because it directly affects the effect of butterfly valve throttling and is a direct manifestation of the quality of butterfly valve products. However, for most

wafer type butterfly valve, NBR seat (11)

wafer type butterfly valve, NBR seat (11)

working conditions, sealing does not mean that one drop is not allowed to leak. For the sealing performance of the butterfly valve, the accurate judgment standard should be: any sealing is allowed to have a small amount of leakage sometimes, if the leakage is not effective, it can be considered as sealed. The use experience of the valve shows that, in many cases, it is unnecessary to put high requirements on the sealing performance of the valve, because some working conditions completely allow a small amount of leakage of the medium, because this leakage is not enough to affect the use of the valve.
Of course, there are also more demanding working conditions in terms of sealing, usually for high pressure or corrosive media, and pipelines that transport flammable, explosive and toxic media. The leakage of the medium between the valve sealing surfaces may cause personal hazards, economic losses, and even In the event of an accident, etc., the tightness requirements should be reasonably put forward according to the danger level of the medium.
For example, for a hard-sealed butterfly valve, a certain amount of leakage is allowed when the sealing performance test is performed in the closed state in accordance with the technical standards for valve manufacturing. However, in order to ensure the high sealing performance of the hard-sealed butterfly valve, Tanghai Valve still carefully grinds the sealing surface, increasing the specific pressure on the sealing surface within the allowable specific pressure range of the sealing surface material, and improving the rigidity of the structure at the same time. At the same time, Tanghai Valve has stricter requirements on design, manufacturing and processing, such as:
(1) The quality of the valve body and bonnet, especially during forging or casting, should avoid defects and uneven composition such as folding, slag inclusion, pores, organization evacuation, and hidden cracks.
(2) The processing quality of the connecting parts of the valve stem and the valve body is improved, especially the roughness of the valve stem and the stuffing box, the straightness of the valve stem, the verticality of the stuffing box hole of the bonnet, and the processing accuracy are increased.
(3) The structure selection of the valve stuffing box. Since the seal at the valve stem is a dynamic seal, the packing is easy to wear during the rotation or sliding process of the valve stem. It is necessary to select a special low-leakage packing seal and packing seal combination, and strictly control the packing and packing. The gap between the valve stem, the gap between the packing and the stuffing box.
In summary, in addition to meeting the process conditions and standard specifications, the sealing performance of the control butterfly valve should also be fully considered for various operating conditions. In the engineering design, the sealing level of the butterfly valve should be selected to meet the principles of safety, reasonableness and economy.

TH Valve is a professional manufacturer of butterfly valvegate valvecheck valveglobe valveknife gate valve, ball valve with API, JIS, DIN standard, used in Oil, Gas, Marine industry, Water supply and drainage, fire fighting, shipbuilding, water treatment and other systems, with Nominal Diameter of DN50 to DN1200, NBR/EPDM/VITON, Certificates & Approvals: DNV-GL, Lloyds, DNV, BV, API, ABS, CCS. Standards: EN 593, API609, API6D

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