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What does a high pressure ball valve do

Jun 24, 2025Leave a message

The core role of the high-pressure ball valve is to achieve reliable cut-off of high-pressure fluid, flow regulation and safety protection through a rigid rotating sphere, widely used in energy, chemical and other harsh conditions, the main functions are as follows:

 

1. The core cut-off function

High-pressure medium rapid cut-off

90 ° rotation can be achieved pipeline fully open / fully closed, emergency cut-off response time ≤ 1 second (such as oil pipeline overpressure protection).

Zero leakage sealing

Metal hard seal (alloy steel/stainless steel) or enhanced PTFE soft sealing, resistant to 20~50MPa high pressure and 540℃ high temperature working conditions, leakage rate ≤ 10-⁶ mbar-L Leakage rate ≤10-⁶ mbar-L/s.

 

2. Precision Flow and Pressure Control

Opening Proportional Adjustment

Precise control of the ball rotation angle through the positioner to regulate the flow of steam, high pressure gas/liquid (e.g. power station boiler system).

Low flow resistance conveying

Full bore design flow efficiency ≥ 99% to avoid high pressure fluid energy loss (natural gas long distance pipeline).

high pressure stainless steel ball valves

3. Safety Protection Mechanism

Automatic cut-off for overpressure

Equipped with spring reset device, the actuator can be shut down urgently when the system is overpressure (ESD function) to prevent the risk of explosion.

Anti-corrosion and fire protection design

Teflon coated valve body is resistant to strong acid/alkali corrosion (chemical reactor pipeline);

Metal sealing assembly meets API 607 fire protection standard, suitable for flammable and explosive environments.

 

4. Extreme working condition adaptability

Resistant to ultra-low temperature and high temperature

-196℃ LNG storage and transportation (stainless steel deep-cooling treatment valve body);

538℃ high temperature steam system (graphite seal + heat dissipation structure).

Resistant to impurity abrasion

Floating seat scraping design can handle slurry containing particles (slurry transport pipeline).

High Temperature Ball Valves

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