What is a Control Valve?
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A control valve is a power-operated device used to regulate or manipulate the flow of fluids, such as gas, oil, water, and steam.
It is a critical part of a control loop and is an example of a final control element. The Control Valve is by far the most common final control element used in industry today.
A control valve has two separate components: the Valve and the Actuator.
Valve bodies are of different types or styles depending on service conditions, piping layout, and desired application. The two classes of control valves are Linear Motion and Rotary Motion.
On a linear motion valve, the stem and valve movement is up and down. A common type of sliding control valves is the Gate Valve.
A rotary motion valve in almost all cases rotates 90° from open to the closed position. A commonly used rotary valve is the Butterfly Valve.
The actuator is the device connected to the valve through the valve stem that provides the force required to move the valve.
The actuator can be controlled electrically, pneumatically, or hydraulically. The most common and the most reliable is the “Pneumatic Actuator”.
The control valve receives a signal from a controller such as a PLC or a DCS in order to operate. The controller compares the actual flow rate to the desired flow value called the setpoint.
The controller will produce an output to move the valve to bring the flow rate to the setpoint value.
Because the PLC signal is electrical, the control valve may require a device to convert that electrical signal so that it can operate.
Because of how pneumatic actuators are built, a control valve will fail to a specific position when a loss of the control signal occurs.
As the supply air pressure is increased, the rubber diaphragm pushes against the spring and moves the valve stem down into the valve body.
As the supply air pressure is reduced, the spring will move the valve stem out of the body.
The position to which the control valve is moved if a loss of signal occurs is referred to as the fail-safe mode.
The type of fail-safe mode depends on the application for which the control valve is used.
The actuator causes the valve to close in a Fail-Closed Control Valve.
The actuator causes the valve to open in a Fail-Open Control Valve.
In normal operation, the force of the spring must be overcome by the electrical or pneumatic actuator.
In the event of a power failure to the actuator, the electrical or pneumatic force is no longer present and the spring pressure forces the valve to open.
You might wonder how much the valve opens or closes when the flow rate changes. Well, that depends on a number of things such as the percentage of the flow rate change and the diameter of the pipe.
Regardless, the Controller must be tuned so that it produces the correct response to any change in flow rate. This is most commonly achieved by using PID control within the PLC or Controller.
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Great video. But is recommended to install the electromagnetic flowmeter before the control valve, it can prevent empty pipe that produces wrong measuring of the flow.
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Is there any video explains how to size a control valve? Valve calculation as well.
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@@obafemijimoh918 I use the software provided by the valve manufacturers. A lot of them will run the calculations and then give you a list of models they make that will work with those parameters.
@@Ryarios Are you on LinkedIn? If you are please connect with me. Valve sizing is out of my instrumentation scope but I'd love to know how I can independently size one and and prepare it's calculation and specification.
dear sir, what are the advantages of pneumatic control valve compared to motorized and what brand of PLC is the controller?
The main advantage is that a pneumatic control valve has a fail position that the valve returns to when the air signal is lost power loss or failure of the instrument air system. A motorized valve will simply stay in the last position on power loss, which may be in a position that allows fluids or gas to continue to pass. This can be dangerous if that fluid is natural gas or a dangerous chemical. I am not sure which PLC you are referring to. The video is a "digital twin" simulation of a process installation, and the controller shown looks like it could be a Siemens S7-1500 PLC.
There is an error here, typically the flow meter is upstream of the control valve to minimize flow disturbances
What is the voltage that is supplied to the control valve which causes it to change its position?
Hi @Eshan Patil. Thanks for your question. Most control valves are pneumatic and operate in a full stroke range of 3 to 15 psi or 20 to 100 kPa. But, there is usually a converting device called a Voltage to pressure (E/P) or a Current to pressure (I/P) to convert the signal from the controller into a pneumatic signal to stroke the valve. The valve will begin to move at 1v if an E/P is connected or 4 ma if an I/P is connected. I hope that answers your question.
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I think practically control valves are place after flow meters , first flow is measured then everything comes thereafter...
This video is an amazing start. I wish I could have helped offer a few additional points before it was made. Or saw this when I was learning in the job. there are issues / limitations of each technical choice. My experience is that hydraulic actuators are more robust, respond quicker, more reliable, able to work better on larger valves with a smaller footprint. There can be issues but that is more a maintenance issue. Pneumatic valves also require good maintenance and quality instrument air. They work great for on off valves. They have less control because air within the actuator compresses. If you choose a butterfly valve instead of a globe valve you have less control. The valves have a leakage class and shutoff time requirement. They valves can have lvdt, position sensors or limit switches to communicate if it is behaving properly. Often valves are calibrated with a factory supplied cv curve that is custom to that exact valve. This information needs to be updated to account for variations from the standard values. There opening profiles like pop and glide.
With liquid, there may be no issues but with gas, due to compressibility, this can be an issue due to restrictions.
On another note, this may not be to scale, the distance from the valve to the flow meter may be large enough not to bother.
Regards.
For liquids it does not matter, but mostly I have seen control valve at upstream of flowmeter (whether it is gas or liquid).
Thanks.
The flowrate before and after the control valve is the same?
Yes, the flow rate is the same at the inlet and at the outlet. Unless there is a serious leak around the stem of the valve, a control valve is a flow-through device
@@realpars what I don't understand how the control valve changes the flow rate.
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How is flow rate regulated if it is constant (or the same) before and after the valve?
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Flow meter location?
Typically the flow meter is upstream of the control valve
But in video graphics downstream show
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