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Application and Characteristics of Cast Steel Gate Valve - 2013-06-21 14:48:24
The soft seated butterfly valve is an indispensable metal part for the development of industry. The on and off part of the cast steel gate valve is a gate plate, and therefore, the cast steel gate valve is only used for connecting or cutting off the flow of the fluids. The cast steel gate valve has the optimal working temperature of -29℃ to 500℃, and it is suitable for water, vapor, oils, nitric acid, acetic acid, oxidizing medium, etc. The cast steel gate valve has the main advantages of small fluid resistance, large applicable pressure and temperature range, no limit for the direction of medium flow, and good sealing performance. The cast steel valve adopts cast steel as the main manufacturing material because the cast steel has better mechanical properties than cast iron. The cast steel gate valves are widely used in various fields for different applications mainly because the Single Eccentric Butterfly Valve have many advantages. Firstly, the cast steel gate valve is light in weight because it is made from cast steel, it is lighter than the traditional gate valve by 20% to 30%, and therefore, it is convenient to install and maintain. Secondly, the cast steel gate valve adopts flatbed gate seat so as to fully avoid the water leakage caused by poor closing effect due to the interference from the impurities. On the contrary, the traditional gate valve has the problem that foreign matters such as stones, wood pieces, cement, iron filings and other debris accumulate in the groove of the valve bottom after water flows through the tube. Thirdly, the elastic seat seals the Double Eccentric Butterfly Valve bottom of the cast steel gate valve through the flatbed design which is the same as the plumbing machine so that debris can not accumulate easily and fluid can flow freely. Fourthly, the gate plate is sealed internally and externally by adopting rubber, the European leading rubber vulcanization technology allows the gate plate after vulcanization to have ensured precise geometric size, and the rubber is in reliable connection with the cast steel gate plate. The last but not the least, the valve is made through precise casting, the precise geometric size allows the inner part of the valve to be free from any precise process, and the sealing performance of the valve can be ensured. The structural characteristics of cast steel valves decide its wide application. The Aluminum Butterfly Valve are widely used for connecting and cutting off the flow of all kinds of media in the tubes in chemical industry, petrochemical industry, metallurgy, medicine, food and other industries.