Stainless Steel Check Valves A 3000 psi stainless steel check valve can pass every hydrostatic test in the shop and still fail inside its first year of service, because the pressure figure on the nam...

Valve Material Selection When to Use Stainless Steel Valves Four situations justify the upgrade, and a handful of operating conditions make stainless steel the most expensive wrong answer on the lin...

Inside the Manufacturing Process for Stainless Steel Valves From melt chemistry and solution annealing to seat lapping and API 598 testing: the decisions that determine whether a stainless valve stil...

Industrial Valve Engineering The Performance of Stainless Steel Ball Valves, Measured Where It Counts Seat leakage after thermal cycling, breakaway torque at temperature and stem-seal emissions decid...

Valve engineering brief Two-Piece Stainless Steel Ball Valves: The Workhorse Your Plant Already Relies On From chemical dosing skids to cooling water lines, the two-piece stainless steel ball valve i...

Valve Engineering · Service-Life Report A stainless steel ball valve can last twenty years. Most never get the chance. Service life is decided before installation — by media, seat material, pressure...

Valve Automation Field Notes Controlling a Quarter-Turn Ball Valve with a Stepper Motor: Torque, Resolution, and Honest Limits A hybrid stepper and a 90-degree ball valve are one of the most practica...

High-Temperature Quarter-Turn Ball Valves: Where the Real Limits Are Set Ask which part of a ball valve gives up first at 400°C and most buyers guess the ball or the body. It is neither. The seat de...

Materials & Valve Selection Monel Valves vs Stainless Steel: Where the Nickel-Copper Alloy Earns Its Premium A field guide for engineers and buyers: where Monel 400 earns its premium over 316 sta...

The maintenance engineer once specified standard carbon steel ball valves for a chloride-laden process water line because the fluid was described as only mildly aggressive. Within one year, pitting a...