Valve Delevepoment Trend:Versatile Hydraulic control valve, Intelligent electric control valve, energy-saving valve

Valve Delevepoment Trend: Versatile Hydraulic control valve(high performance, butterfly valve), Intelligent electric control valve(remote control, gate valve), energy-saving valve(standardardization, seris valve)

With the development of science and technology, the competition for valves is more and more fierce and at the same time the future development of the valve has been the hot focus in the market. Hydraulic control valve, electric control valve, energy-saving valve are the three main valves in the market, what will be their development in the future.

1. Hydraulic control valve(like the butterfly valve)– whose development trend is versatile. To be high performance is necessary for this kind of valve, like large emission, resistance to corrosion, high sensitivity, abrasion, leakiness and so on. Besides for the high performance, the valve is also required to adopt the integrated technology, computer technology and monitoring technology. In a word, the product with the features of reliability, safety and comfort is the aim for the manufactories.

2. Intelligent electric control valve (like the motor operated gate valve) should aim at having the function of remote control. Nowadays although the control valve is widely used in all kinds of industries, it still can not keep up with the development of industries and can not meet the need for different environment. The great projects need the large-sized control valve with high performance. To develop small-sized ones can satisfy the requirements of narrow jobs such as digging the canal, burying cable. What’s more, in order to monitor, control and improve the working condition for operators, it is a trend to develop intelligent electric valve operated through remote control. If the company can first develop this product, it is very potential for him to control the market.

3. The energy-saving valve used for engineer projects should be manufactured in series. In order to satisfy the need of the market, it is urgent to develop series of the valves including large-sized one, small-sized one or new type one. Besides, it is necessary to develop the variable-speed valves, such as swamp type, desert type, the type for high temperature and high pressure, heavy or light type and so on. All in all, if the company wants to conquer the market share, it is a better way to develop high effective energy-saving valve with multi-function. Among so many energy-saving valves, the relatively promising products are large-sized ones, caterpillar gate valves with large power and small-sized butterfly valves.

Besides the above, it is important for a company to make the valves to follow the trend of seriation, universalization and standardization. Meanwhile, high level, good safety and excellent performance advanced valves are needed in the market.

API ANSI VALVE RELATED SPECIFICATIONS, CODES AND STANDARDS

API ANSI VALVE RELATED SPECIFICATIONS, CODES AND STANDARDS
The following list of codes and standards are usually referenced within this Specification, refer to “Project Codes and Standards” for the complete project list, as minimum.
API 594
Check Valves: Wafer, Wafer-Lug, and Double Flanged Type
API 598
Valve Inspection and Testing
API 5L
Line Pipe Specification
API 600
Bolted Bonnet Steel Gate Valves for Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries
API 602
Compact Steel Gate Valves – Flanged, Threaded and Weld End
API 603
Corrosion Resistant, Bolted Bonnet Gate Valves – Flanged and Buttweld

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Local Wenzhou Pump Valve and Pipeline Exhibition-2012

The 9th Wenzhou Pump,Valve& Pipeline Explosion                                                          and  the 4th Yongjia pump & valve Exhibiton of china was held

Date: Oct 26~28, 2012                                                                                                   Place: international exhibition and convention center of wenzhou,china

Marathon Petroleum to Purchase BP’s Texas City Refinery – Valves

Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase BP’s 451,000 barrel per calendar day (475,000 barrel per stream day) Texas City refinery, three intrastate NGL pipelines originating at the refinery, an allocation of BP’s Colonial Pipeline Company shipper history, four terminals, retail marketing contract assignments for approximately 1,200 branded sites and a 1,040 megawatt cogeneration (cogen) facility. The base purchase price is $598 million, plus inventories estimated at $1.2 billion. The agreement also contains an earnout provision under which MPC could pay up to an additional $700 million over six years, subject to certain conditions. The transaction is expected to be accretive to earnings in the first year of operation. Continue reading “Marathon Petroleum to Purchase BP’s Texas City Refinery – Valves”