Ball Valves
What is a Ball valve?
Ball valves are a type of quarter-turn valves that consist of a perforated metal or plastic ball which functions as a valve flow orifice mounted within the valve body and moved by a handle that turns 90 degrees from fully open to fully closed.
Ball valves are reliable and are mainly used in closing or isolating flow in various industries such as chemical plants, nuclear power plant, control of water in plumbing and heating systems, oil and gas refineries.
Mostly used metallic valve body materials are bronze, brass, and stainless steel while plastic ball valves find their applications in chemical and industrial facilities where the material contained in the pipe is reactive or caustic.
Ball valves Features & quality
Flowtech Valves and equipment are ball valve suppliers which supply ball valves of various sizes and configurations. We provide standard 2-way (2 piece or 3 pieces) full port brass ball valves and 3-way (multi-turn with L-port or T-port configurations) brass ball valves. Connection ends include socket weld, threaded (NPT) and butt weld. Flowtech’s full port ball valves offer lower pressure drops and more laminar flow as compared to conventional ball valves. We have made a reputation for excellent quality and low maintenance valves in numerous durable materials such as globe, ball, gate, butterfly and check valves. Our low-emission valves offer an optimum solution to lessen the fugitive emissions from the plant facilities and increase the production efficiency. We are a renowned manufacturer of on/off shutdown valve products who believe in service with quality. We also provide customized solutions with the best manufacturing and sourcing capabilities.
BALL VALVES APPLICATIONS
These ball valves are suitable for water, gas, air, oil and steam applications. The brass ball valves are usually lead-free. Ball valves are also appropriate for vacuum, beverage, chemical, mixing, water, cryogenic, air, gas, refrigeration, selecting, processing and sampling applications. We offer the ball valves to customers worldwide for applications such as chemical, refining, gas, petrochemical, oil and many more process applications. Our excellent quality valves are trusted for services such as drilling, transmission, subsea deepwater, gas processing, production, storage, and low emission & high frequency on/off applications in the refinery.
There Are Various Industrial Advantages Of Ball Valves Such As
- Quick to open and close.
- Lighter in weight than a gate valve.
- Can be used in clean and slurry applications.
- Provides bubble-tight service.
- The force required to actuate the valve is smaller than that required for a gate or a globe valve.
- Smaller size than a gate valve.
- High-quality ball valves provide reliable service in high-pressure and high-temperature applications.
- Multi-port design offers versatility not available with gate or globe valves. It reduces the number of valves required.
- Several designs of ball valves offer the flexibility of selection.