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integral flange

Industrial valves; Control valves

A valve body whose flange connection is an integral or cast part of the body. Valves with integral flanges were traditionally known to have the ANSI short face-to-face dimension ...

cage guided valve

Industrial valves; Control valves

A type of globe style valve trim where the valve plugs with the seat.

spring rate

Industrial valves; Control valves

A term usually applied to self-contained regulators describing the range of set point adjustment available for a particular range spring.

soft seated

Industrial valves; Control valves

A term used to describe valve trim with an elastomeric or plastic material used either in the valve plug or seat ring to provide tight shutoff with a minimal amount of actuator ...

turndown

Industrial valves; Control valves

A term used to describe the ratio between the minimum and maximum flow conditions seen in a particular system. Example: If the minimum flow were 10 G. P. M. And the maximum flow ...

leakage classification

Industrial valves; Control valves

A term used to describe certain standardized testing procedures for control valves with a flow coefficient greater then 0. 1 (C v ). These procedures are outlined in ANSI Standard ...

fail-safe

Industrial valves; Control valves

A term used to describe the desired failure position of a control valve. It could fail-closed, fail-open, or fail-in-place. For a spring-return operator to fail-in-place usually ...

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