This style of ball valve is typically referred to as a 3-piece ball valve (Figure 1). 1. The valve shown here is a 2-inch stainless steel electric-actuated 3-piece ball valve. Courtesy ...

3. Convert back to the flow coefficient. Calculate the revised coefficient based on the total loss: Published C v values for two different ball valve designs are shown in table 2. Even though the two ...

[Derek] sent in this electric ball valve he built for his bio-diesel reactor. If you haven’t checked, the commercial versions are pretty expensive. His solution was to mate a salvaged saturn ...