Ingolstadt. – Vulcanising, sterilising, baking and drying – many industrial processes require highly precise control of liquid, gaseous or vaporous media. The valve specialist, Schubert & Salzer Control Systems, has now developed a particularly compact, lightweight, and energy-efficient solution for all areas of the process industry with its new type 8028 sliding gate valve. In addition, with a pneumatic 80-millimetre diaphragm actuator and digital positioner, the control valve is very fast, almost wear and maintenance-free as well as low-noise operation.
Thanks to its small size and a space-saving intermediate flange design, type 8028 scores highly, especially when used in confined spaces. At a nominal size of DN100, for instance, the total dimension of the GS1 version is only 487 millimetres. The compact design also lowers energy consumption during operations and conserves resources in the manufacturing and logistics sectors.
The sliding gate technology used in type 8028 controls the flow in milliseconds, whereby two slotted discs arranged vertically in the direction of flow slide over each other in a linear movement. The actuator must therefore only overcome the sliding friction between both discs. The required actuating force is 90% lower than for globe valves with the same nominal size at the same differential pressure.
Short actuator travels of just 6 to 9 millimetres also reduce the wear from the packing and drive of the control valve. Even when difficult media get stuck to the piston rod, the tightness remains permanently unimpaired because the piston rod barely moves into the packing. For the actuator diaphragm too, the short stroke and low control pressures mean much lower stress and hence a long service life with many million switch cycles.
