Zahroof Valves, Inc. (ZVI) announced that the company’s Reed Valve Module and Valve Assembly have been granted U.S. Patent No. 9,989,161. Altogether, ZVI now has 43 patents granted and several pending on nine different technologies in thirty-one different countries.
Since the release of its modular reed valve technology encapsulated in their flagship StraightFlo™ Valve, thirty-two related patents have been granted around the world in countries as diverse as Australia, Great Britain, China, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, and Turkey.
The StraightFlo™ Valve is a reed check valve with valve assembly comprising of replaceable reed valve modules. These modules are designed so that the gas flows essentially in a straight line through a valve, with very little deviation resulting in very low losses in the valve.
All the wear components are in the module. Therefore, servicing a valve consists of simply replacing a bad module within the valve with a new one. The technology eliminates the need to machine any parts during service. Replacement of a module within a valve is done by hand and does not require special tools.
The design of the reed valve modules makes it more tolerant to liquids and solid particles in the gas stream, resulting in lifetimes as much as 5 to 10 times that of conventional valves in difficult application such as in gas production.
