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A Butterfly Valve is a quarter-turn rotational motion valve that is used to stop, regulate, and start the flow. Butterfly valves are easy and fast to open. A 90-degree rotation of the handle provides a complete closure of the opening of the valve. Large Butterfly valves are usually equipped with a so-called gearbox, where the handwheel by gears is connected to the stem. This simplifies the operation of the valve, but at the expense of speed.

Butterfly valves have a short circular body, around the disc, metal-to-metal or soft seats, top and bottom shaft bearings, and a stuffing box. The construction of a Butterfly valve body varies. A commonly used design is the wafer type that fits between two flanges. Another type, the lug wafer design, is held in place between two flanges by bolts that join the two flanges and pass-through holes in the valve’s outer casing.

Butterfly valves possess many advantages over the gate, globe, plug, and ball valves, especially for large valve applications. Savings in weight, space, and cost are the most obvious advantages. The maintenance costs are usually low because there are a minimal number of moving parts and there are no pockets to trap fluids. Butterfly valves are especially well-suited for the handling of large flows of liquids or gases at relatively low pressures and for the handling of slurries or liquids with large amounts of suspended solids. Butterfly valves are built on the principle of a pipe damper. The flow control element is a disk of approximately the same diameter as the inside diameter of the adjoining pipe, which rotates on either a vertical or horizontal axis. When the disk lies parallel to the piping run, the valve is fully opened. When the disk approaches the perpendicular position, the valves are shut. Intermediate positions, for throttling purposes, can be secured in place by handle-locking devices.

Typical applications of Butterfly valves

  • A butterfly valve can be used in many different fluid services and they perform well in slurry applications. The following are some typical applications of Butterfly valves:
    Cooling water, air, gases, fire protection, etc.
  • Slurry and similar services
  • Vacuum service
  • High-pressure and high-temperature water and steam services
  • Advantages of Butterfly valves
  • Compact design requires considerably less space, compared to other valves
  • Light in weight
  • Quick operation requires less time to open or close
  • Available in very large sizes
  • Low-pressure drop and high-pressure recovery
Centric - Butterfly Valves (Lug Or Wafer Style)

Centric - Butterfly Valves (Lug Or Wafer Style)

Double Eccentric - Butterfly Valves

Double Eccentric - Butterfly Valves