
Special Valves

Ball Check Valve
Ball check valves are often preferred for use in pumping stations that are rarely attended, since they demand only limited maintenance, typically if the ball valves make noise caused by insufficient pump capacity or water hammer. Ball check valves provide backflow checking inside a piping system.

Jacketed Valves
While specifying jacketed valves, users should specify the thermal requirements of the process along with the flange sizes and valve types to be used. Heating jackets are required where the process temperature must be maintained through the valve in order to keep the process media fluid.
In particular, where there is potential for media to be trapped within a closed valve the heating jacket can be vital in maintaining the process temperature and preventing the trapped product from solidifying. Typical industries which use jacketed valves are Sulphur recover, pharmaceutical, fertilizer products and chocolate production.