The valves must be understood within the context of an installation of pipes, tanks, reactors, impulse pumps, etc.
On their own, they would be By themselves they would not be useful at all, they are one more element within a facility that will serve us to close, open, divert, retain and regulate the fluids, manual or automatic.
In a manual way we will see all the types of valves that are on the market and in the automatic the types of drives to act them. To try to make it simple for the valves to serve, I will initially divide them into only 4 concepts:
1. STOP VALVES
- Gate
- Knife
- Globe
- Globe with bellow
- Slanted seat
- Needle
- Piston
- Plug
- Butterfly
- Diaphragm
- Pinch
- Float
- Ball or Sphere
2. CHECK VALVES
- Clapper
- Seat
- Ball
- Tilting Disc
- Nozzle
- Double clapper
- Diaphragm
- Disc
- Foot
3. REGULATION
- Manuals
- Automatics
- Self-powered
4. AUTOMATIC
- Electrics
- Tyres
- Hydraulics
