- Loop or Line Powered
- Wetted Parts: 316SS 3/4" NPT Mounting, 3/16" FEP insulated flexible and adjustable cable, non-sparking brass sensor.
- Automatic and local or remote manual test functions ensure proper system operation.
- One system fits most floating roof tank applications, reducing field spans
- Adjustable insertion lengths up to 15' (4,6m)
- Excellent trip point accuracy over a wide range of medias and tank roof
Piping Specialties Inc. (PSI) is one of the northeast's largest suppliers of valves; process controls/instrumentation, and engineered mechanical specialties. Industries served: Power Generation, Pulp/Paper, HVAC, Water/Wastewater, Food/Beverage, Life Sciences, Chemical/ Process, Semiconductor. For more information visit PSI-Team.com or call 800-223-1468.
SIL Level Switch Is Specifically Designed for Floating Roof Tanks
High-performance and Resilient Seated Butterfly Valves for Commercial and Industrial Applications
A butterfly valve has a disc that is in the fluid flow path. In the most common style of butterfly valve, the disc revolves around a central axis, the stem, via a 90-degree arc from parallel to the flow direction (open) to perpendicular to the flow direction (closed). Butterfly valves have a straightforward design with few moving components, making them simple to repair and maintain. The valve has four main parts: the body, the stem, the disk, and the seat.
The butterfly disk is always in the flow path, but its thin profile has little effect on flow. Butterfly valves are popular because they provide tight shut-off, are available in various materials and sizes, and may be easily automated using a variety of quarter-turn electric and pneumatic actuators.
You'll find butterfly valves in a wide range of industrial applications, from managing the flow of water to handling far more hazardous industrial fluids. Many industries use butterfly valves, including water treatment, chemical processing, pulp, paper manufacturing, food processing, power generation, etc.
There are two primary classifications of butterfly valves:
- High-performance butterfly valves (HPBV)
- Resilient seated butterfly valves
High-performance butterfly valves include carbon or stainless steel bodies with Teflon seats and can withstand more significant pressures and temperatures. Resilient seated valves usually feature ductile iron or aluminum bodies and operate at lower pressures and temperatures.
Butterfly valve bodies are available in two mounting styles: lug and wafer. Lug bodies include cast-in lugs with bolt hole designs that match pipe flanges. A wafer body valve does not have a mounting hole pattern, and mounting is facilitated by sandwiching the valve between two pipe flanges, with mounting bolts around the valve body. Wafer-style bodies are less costly. An advantage to lug body valves is their use as a dead-end valve, whereas wafer valves are unsuitable for this service.
The stem is a one or two-piece shaft that keeps the disk in place and provides the rotational torque that allows the disk to open and shut. The stem of resilient seated valves has protection from the process media by packing rings, allowing for a more cost-effective solution to regulate the valve's application to various potentially corrosive media. High-performance butterfly valve stems come into touch with process media and must be media suitable.
The disk is the valve component that comes into direct contact with the process medium and regulates flow. Disks are available in various materials and optionally come with corrosion-resistant polymer coatings. Some butterfly valves include contoured disks that are carefully aligned with the stem to increase flow control, modify torque needs, or give the valve a longer life.
A resilient seated valve closes via an "interference fit," which means the disk forces itself into the seat. The seat is the soft substance (polymer elastomer) including Buna-N and Nitrile, and should be specified depending on the process medium involved.
High-performance butterfly valves use an interference fit as well, but with significantly tighter tolerances, but also ensure tight seating with assistance from upstream pressure. PTFE or RTFE are the most often used materials for HPBV seats. Metal seats on HPBVs accommodate more significant pressure and temperature applications.
Like other valves, butterfly valves have applications in which they outperform. To apply the optimum solution to your flow control applications, combine your process knowledge with your product knowledge with the application skills of a proven valve engineering professional. Contact Piping Specialties, Inc. for more information about industrial valves. Visit https://psi-team.com or call 800-223-1468.
Industrial Thermowell Process Connection Types
Water Cut Meters from Drexelbrook
Water cut meters measure the water cut (or BS&W) of oil flowing from a well, a separator, crude oil transfer in pipelines, and tanker loading.
Piping Specialties is Your Preferred Ball Valve Automation Specialist in New England
Contact Piping Specialties / PSI Controls with your next automated ball valve requirement.
Extremely Durable 4.5 Inch Process Gauges
Series PT45P Features
- Safety Pattern Design
- Solid Front/Blowout Back Safety Case
- All Stainless Steel Internal Parts
- Internal Overload and Underload Stops
- Field Fillable Case
- Micro-Adjustable Pointer with Floating Zero
- ASME B40.100 Design
- NACE MR-0175 and MR-0103 Compliant
HABONIM 50 Series Top Entry Cryogenic Ball Valves
Due to its unique one-piece body structure, the HABONIM Series 50 Top Entry Valve is the ultimate answer for pipeline integrity on the one hand and inline serviceability on the other.
The 50 Series of HABONIM bidirectional top entry cryogenic ball valves are a modern adaption of a trunnion ball valve with top entry construction and patent-pending new design elements.
The main challenge for an assembly or maintenance team with a standard top entry valve is usually the complexity of assembly and disassembly of the valve inner parts, the time-consuming operation, and the requirement for special equipment and jigs.
All of these problems are addressed and solved by HABONIM's Series 50 top entry valve design.
Upon removing the valve bonnet screws, the crew has immediate access to the valve's interior parts, allowing for thorough maintenance and replacement of all inner components and sealing. This one-of-a-kind design provides for complete valve renovation inline without the need to remove any insulation pieces.
One Double Piston Effect (DPE) dynamic seat is used in the patent-pending design, allowing bidirectional sealing under the full differential and a relatively simple design with few parts and no closed cavities. These qualities provide all of the advantages of a ball valve's high flow (Cv) with no restriction on flow direction or sealing, as well as a safer cryogenic construction.
When installed, a patent-pending supplementary optional body extender raises the valve's bonnet above piping insulation, allowing the valve to be maintained without removing the insulation or without special valve insulation boxes.
The valve's revolutionary design allows for quick inline serviceability with minimal effort and inexpensive equipment for valve dismantling, replacement, and reassembly.
For more information in New England, contact Piping Specialties. Call 800-223-1468 or visit https://psi-team.com.
Food Industry Batch Level Control
- 3A designed sanitary sensing elements
- No moving parts
- 3 control points on one vertical sensing element
- Cote-Shield circuitry eliminates false alarms due to coatings
- Designed to endure Clean In Place (CIP) demands
All Stainless Steel Ball Valve and Actuator Systems
Stainless steel pneumatic actuators are available in spring return, double acting, fail open, and fail close configurations. A corrosion resistance surface - resistance to most corrosive materials - is one of the advantages of using a stainless steel actuator. The stainless steel pneumatic actuator is excellent for heavy-duty automation, especially in corrosive environments. Stainless steel actuators with a durable stainless steel body manufactured to NAMUR standards continue to perform in the harshest environments.
Piping Specialties' stainless steel actuated ball valves provide exceptional accuracy and dependability in flow control and open/close operations, critical in manufacturing, chemical, oil & gas, wastewater, processing, and other applications.
Piping Specialties is committed to providing the most suitable valve for your application. For more information about stainless steel valves, call 800-223-1468 or visit https://psi-team.com.
The REOTEMP Model W Explosion Proof, Field Mounted, HART Temperature Transmitter
Submersible Level Transmitters
“V” Port Ball Valves for Control and Simplicity
A-T Controls / Triac "V" Series Ball Valves are ideal for achieving more precise control while maintaining simplicity and sealing features. A-T Controls offers 1/2" – 4" 3-piece and 1/2" – 6" flanged sizes. Standard "V" notch angles are 30°, 60°, and 90°. While manual valves are available, A-T Controls specializes in automating them to meet your specific control needs.
V-port valves provide more accurate and consistent control than traditional round ported ball valves.
A-T Controls manufactures "V" port valves with the control port cast and machined into the ball rather than the seat, resulting in significantly improved flow characteristics and the elimination of the need to replace seats. The 30° option provides finer tapered control throughout the valve rotation, while the 60° and 90° options offer a higher Cv as well as controlled flow.
The V7 valves come standard with a PTFE seat, while the V8, V9, and FVD9 V-port valves come standard with a 50/50 STFE seat. The 50/50 SST powder/PTFE blend provides both strength and superior sealing properties.
For more information, contact Piping Specialties, Inc / PSI Controls. Call them at 800-223-1468 of visit their website at https://psi-team.com.
The Drexelbrook DR3500 80 GHz FMCW Radar for Liquids With Hygienic Requirements
Key DR3500 Features
- Process conditions up to +300⁰F (150⁰C) and 362 psig (25 barg)
- Extensive choice of hygienic process connections
- Small dead zone and beam angle for small and narrow tanks
- Flush-mounted PEEK Lens antenna: CIP/SIP suitable
- 3 Year Warranty
NON-CONTACT LEVEL MEASUREMENT
- Pharmaceutical
- Biotech
- Biopharma
- Food & Beverage
The Reotemp TDS Pressure Transmitter and Switch With Display
The Reotemp TDS pressure transmitter and switch with display features include 0.25% accuracy, display, and electrical connections are independently rotatable 335°/343°, analog outputs switchable between 4-20ma or voltage, rugged construction, with protection from shock, over-range, and over-voltage. Additionally, the TSDS calibration range is adjustable and provides excellent long-term stability.
For more information on Reotemp products in New England, contact PSI Controls / Piping Specialties. Call 800-223-1468 or visit https://psi-team.com.
The COMPACT Quarter-turn Rack and Pinion Pneumatic Actuator
The Habonim COMPACT actuator is a quarter-turn rack and pinion pneumatic actuator that doubles the torque of conventional pneumatic actuators. Habonim's patented four piston design, which generates torque around a centrally located piston, is responsible for superior performance, translating to double the power for the same size actuator or half the size for the same power.
The COMPACT has four small cylinders, one on each of the cube's four sides. The smaller pinion and minimized travel distance of the pistons in the COMPACT require less air pressure to produce the same torque output as a larger double piston actuator. As a result, there's a reduction in emergency shutdown response, air consumption during operation, and maintenance. Habonim's unique quarter-turn COMPACT actuators have the superior performance of twice the torque per size, much longer cycling before any care, high opening and closing speed, and exceptional durability in the most demanding industrial environments.
STANDARD ACTUATOR FEATURES
NAMUR & ISO interface
A wide range of accessories such as solenoids, positioners, and limit switches are available for direct mounting to the COMPACT actuator, and any accessory with ISO 5211 and VDI/VDE 3845 (NAMUR) will mount to the actuator.
NAMUR VDI/VDE 3845
This standard specifies various accessories with VDI/VDE interfaces, such as limit switches, pucks, indicators, and positioners, with simple mounting onto the actuator top face.
NAMUR solenoid mounting
One of the four actuator covers available includes a pad for solenoid mounting per the NAMUR international standard. Any solenoid that conforms to the NAMUR interface can be directly mounted to the actuators, simplifying solenoid installation and eliminating the need for additional piping. Because the pressurized air supply is available at the port entrance, it also allows for quick actuation response.
ISO 5211
The actuator bottom flange conforms to the ISO 5211 international standard and includes a star-shaped female drive to accommodate a wide range of valve output shafts. The valve can be attached to the actuator with a bracket or mounted directly onto the actuator using one of the ISO hole patterns.
COMPACT actuators are part of control packages in various industries and providing superior performance in the cycle times, size, weight, compressed-air consumption, and reliability in high cyclic applications.
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Piping Specialties / PSI Controls
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800-223-1468
Serving New England with Premium Valve Automation Systems
Piping Specialties is your preferred valve automation specialist in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Piping Specialties handles projects of all sizes for manual and automated valves, providing specification development, design, engineering, assembly, and testing of valve packages. Using CAD software, our associates can give complete drawing packages and plans to ensure the automated valve solutions we provide will fit your applications and meet specifications.
Piping Specialties has established itself as one of New England's premier valve automation centers by combining years of experience with the industry's top manufacturers of valves, valve actuators, and controls. PSI's application experience, engineering know-how, and highly trained technicians make them an easy choice to be your preferred valve automation partner for the design, fabrication, assembly, and installation of any valve actuation/automation project.
Choose Piping Specialties for all your valve automation needs. For more information, visit https://psi-team.com or call 800-223-1468.
New Partnership in New England: Habonim Valves and Actuators
Habonim designs and manufactures floating, trunnion, cryogenic, high pressure, and metal seated ball valves. Additionally, they manufacture pneumatic actuators and complex manifold assemblies. Their products excel in the most demanding industries, including oil and gas, chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and mining. Habonim products comply with the strictest industrial and international standards with a constant focus on safety and environmental considerations.
Piping Specialties is pleased to partner with such a well-established and high-quality manufacturer.
Piping Specialties / PSI Controls
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800-223-1468
Replace Inaccurate and High Maintenance Displacer Level Controls With RF Admittance Technology
Cost Effective Alternative to Displacer Level Measurements
THE PROBLEM
- Displacer accuracy is dependent on the specific gravity of a fluid. Varying specific gravities and “off spec” product result in significant measurement errors.
- Coating build-up on the displacer body produces errors.
- “Blowdowns” to clean displacer internals and cages is time consuming and expensive.
- Rebuilds due to component wear add significantly to the total cost of ownership.
- Interface measurements are more sensitive to slight specific gravity variances and result in separator throughput lower than the design specification.
THE SOLUTION
- AMETEK Drexelbrook Radio Frequency (RF) Admittance technology eliminates all of the inherent problems with Displacer technology level measurement.
- RF is immune to changes in specific gravity, density, temperature, and pressure.
- Accuracies to 1⁄4 inch of level in short span installations.
- No moving parts to wear, No periodic maintenance.
- Replacement cost differentials covered by eliminating one rebuild.
Piping Specialties / PSI Controls
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800-223-1468
NS Series NSF/ANSI 61 & 372 Certified Ball and Butterfly Valves
The NS Series floating ball valves and NS Series butterfly valves from A-T Controls are NSF 61 (Drinking Water System Components- Health Effects) and NSF 372 certified (Drinking Water System Components- Lead Content). NSF 61 means that NS Series valves are certified in water treatment, water purification, potable water, and water distribution systems (Underwriters Laboratories) and meet North American lead content criteria for “lead-free” plumbing.
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The Azbil AX24R Reduced Bore Vortex Flowmeter
EXTENDED MEASURING RANGE FOR LOWER FLOW RATES
Much of the measuring range of a standard vortex flowmeter is at higher fluid velocities. Because of this, measurements at low flow conditions may be missed due to the low flow cutoff. To remedy this issue, users often install pipe reducers and a smaller than line size vortex meter to increase fluid velocities through the meter. The Azbil AX24R reduced bore vortex flowmeter has integrated reducing flanges, eliminating the need for separate pipe reducers and spool pieces. This integrated reduction extends the measuring range to capture lower flow rates.
CAPTURES STEAM FLOW IN BOTH HIGH AND LOW DEMAND SEASONS
Steam usage in heating systems can vary widely based on seasonal demands. These systems are commonly sized with the high demand season (colder weather) in mind, and little thought is given to the low demand season (warmer weather). This leads to a situation where steam flowmeters are oversized and may miss flow measurements at low flow conditions. AX24R reduced bore vortex flowmeters have an extended low flow measuring range, capturing both high and low demand seasons.
REDUCED INSTALLATION COSTS
Like most flowmeters, vortex flowmeters have requirements for unobstructed upstream and downstream piping lengths to ensure a proper flow profile through the meter. Adding pipe reducers adds cost and complexity to the piping design since those unobstructed piping lengths are required before and after the pipe reducers.
The AX24R reduced bore vortex flowmeter has integrated reducing flanges, eliminating the need for separate pipe reducers and spool pieces. Drastically reducing both the complexity and cost of the meter installation.
SAME FACE-TO-FACE DIMENSION AS A STANDARD VORTEX METER
AX24R reduced bore vortex flowmeters have the same face-to-face dimension as a standard AX24 flowmeter for pressure classes up to ANSI 600. So if process conditions change, the meter body size can be changed without any costly piping modifications. This is especially useful in project planning, as it allows for flexibility into the future.
For more information on the Azbil AX24R in New England, contact Piping Specialties / PSI Controls. Call 800-223-1468 or visit https://psi-team.com.