A Procedure for Performance Experimental Analysis of a Globe Control Valve

EasyChair Preprint no. 276

Abstract

Control valves are known as the final control element in hydraulic closed/open loops of modern process industries around the world. Proper selection of control valve leads to enhanced performance curve of the hydraulic systems and therefore increases the efficiency, reliability, profitability and safety of the system. Flow coefficient (CV) of a control valve describes the relation between the pressure drop across the valve and the flow passing through it. Despite many computational efforts for calculating the exact value and curve of CV, the experimental procedure of the CV test has not been documented well. We used a control valve test-set up designed based on the standards ANSI/ISA-75.02-1996 and IEC 60534-2-3 (2013) to evaluate the performance of a 3 in. control valve. Upon extracting the results in terms of inlet, and outlet pressure and flow, the characteristic parameters such as CV and opening percentage were derived and compared with an ideal curve. Error analysis was performed to account for the tolerance of the measured parameters by the measuring devices. The results show acceptable agreement within the criteria of a reference standard approving the validity of the design method.

Keyphrases: Control Valve, flow coefficient, Ideal curve, Performance, Test set-up

@Booklet{EasyChair:276,
  author = {Hesam Hoursan and Mohamad Moradi and Mohammad Omid Hadjiazim and Mohammad Taghi Ahmadian and Ahmad Barari},
  title = {A Procedure for Performance Experimental Analysis of a Globe Control Valve},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 276},
  doi = {10.29007/wxkg},
  year = {EasyChair, 2018}}