Split Wedge Type Gate Valve

Split wedge gate valves are self adjusting and self aligning gate valves.

Split wedge type gate valve.

The valve trim consists of the stem the gate the disc or wedge and the seat rings. Nuclear conventional steam geothermal combined cycle. Split wedge gate valve. These are the socket and ball design valves.

Zeco wedge gate valve is one of the gate valve types. The disk is free to adjust itself to the seating surface. You can see the same in images. In general the two wedge gate valve sealing surface and the angle of the vertical center line of 2 52 3 30 5 8 and so on.

Split wedge or flexible wedge type gate valves are expected to perform better than solid wedge gate valves when thermal binding is a concern. Pressure binding sometimes in high temperature applications the flow medium such as water or steam is trapped in the valve bonnet area when the valve is closed for system shutdown. Wedge gate valves are named because the two sealing surfaces resemble wedges in the body. Description of wedge gate valve.

These are self adjusting and self aligning to both seating surfaces. The most common were. Split wedge gate valves have a compact design with body guided two piece gates that provide reliable operation and sealing. Cast steel wedged gate valve for oil and gas industry disks of a gate valve.

Split wedge gate valves as shown in below figure are of the ball and socket design. The split disk can be in a wedge shape or a parallel disk type. Gate valves are available with different disks or wedges. The disc is free to adjust itself to the seating surface if one half of the disc is slightly out of alignment due to some foreign matter lodged between the disc and the seat ring.

Split wedge or parallel disks gate valve. The disk is free to adjust itself to the seating surface if one half of the disk is slightly out of alignment because of foreign matter lodged between the disk half and the seat ring.