Gas Valve Sizing
Sizing a control valve for gas or vapor service is more complicated than for liquid service, due to the compressibility of gases and vapors. As a gas or vapor compresses…
Process Safety and Instrumentation
Here we discuss about instrumentation related to industrial process safety. Instrumentation safety may be broadly divided into two categories: how instruments themselves may pose a safety hazard (electrical signals possibly…
Classified Areas and Electrical Safety Measures
Any physical location in an industrial facility harboring the potential of explosion due to the presence of flammable process matter suspended in the air is called a hazardous or classified…
Inherent vs Installed Control Valve Flow Characteristics
What is inherent characteristic of a valve ? The inherent characteristic of a valve is the characteristic published by the manufacturer, based on tests performed in a system where great care…
Control Valve Performance with Varying Pressure
Now let us consider a scenario where the pressure drop across the valve changes as the rate of flow through the valve changes. We may modify the previous example of…
Control Valve Performance with Constant Pressure
First, let us imagine a control valve installed at the base of a dam, releasing water from the reservoir. Given a constant height of water in the reservoir, the upstream…
What is a Thermal Flow Meter?
Industrial thermal flow meter usually consists of flow tube with two temperature sensors inside, one that is heated and other is unheated.
Electronic Valve positioners
The purpose of a valve positioner is to ensure the mechanical valve’s position matches the command signal at all times. Thus, a valve positioner is actually a closed-loop control system…
Automated Calibration
Maintaining the calibration of instruments at a large industrial facility is a daunting task. Aside from the actual labor of checking and adjusting calibration, records must be kept not only…
Importance of Proper Control Valve Sizing
The flow coefficient of a control valve (Cv) is a numerical value expressing the number of gallons per minute flow of water the valve will pass with a constant pressure…
