Ball Valve Design: A ball valve, on the other hand, features a spherical ball with a hole in the center that rotates to control the flow. The ball is housed in a valve body, with a stem that connects ...

Attempting to represent the flow capacity of an FBBV in terms of control valve standard ... diameter (or in this case ball valve diameter). This analytical method does not include the effects of ...

Choked flow in control ... As the valve opens further, the flow may become choked, but the valve damage will likely be reduced as the plug moves away from the seat. Figure 4. This graph compares the ...

Imagine you didn't have shutoff valves ... control the flow of water through a pipe. The internal mechanism features a sphere ...