With its Copes-Vulcan brand, Celeros Flow Technology has been providing control valves and desuperheaters for the power, process and nuclear industries since 1903. Copes-Vulcan provides a wide range of valves for the control of pressure, temperature and flow-induced noise in all types of power plants. Products include severe service and general service control valves, variable orifice desuperheaters, Raven™, trim and steamconditioning valves and nuclear control valves, as well as custom designed specialty valves. The Copes-Vulcan brand is recognized worldwide as a leader in valves for severe and critical service applications. Our strength lies in our ability to provide innovative valve solutions for our customers’ application needs.
Celeros FT’s Copes-Vulcan brand has been providing valves to the Power, Pulp & Paper, Oil & Gas, and Petrochemical industries since 1903, and is recognized worldwide as a leader in valves for severe and critical service applications. Our strength truly lies in our ability to provide innovative valve solutions for our customers’ application problems. The RAVEN™ Control Valve incorporates a unique advanced design that is superb at rapidly reducing flow velocities, resulting in valves that provide quiet, non-cavitating and non-erosive service. Ultimately, each RAVEN™ trim is specifically designed to provide the finest severe duty valve service by:
- Reducing and
- Attenuating
- Velocity,
- Erosion and
- Noise
The RAVEN™ Control Valve was developed by highly experienced engineers who took the well-proven labyrinth disc stack type of trim and introduced two main patented innovations: resistance to the effects of blockage and reduction in noise. The innovative designs give this well-established technology for severe service applications even more technical advantages over other currently available trim designs.
RESISTANCE TO THE EFFECTS OF BLOCKAGE
The expanding passage design, combined with multiple entry points to the individual flow passages, make blockage very unlikely. Unlike conventional labyrinth trim designs, RAVEN™ has relief points built into the labyrinth design. Under normal operation, these relief points have virtually no flow through them. In the event of blockage, the relief points are utilized. Extensive testing has shown that if a blockage occurs in RAVEN™ trim, all inlet ports and outlet ports are still utilized, minimizing any reduction in Cv and ensuring that the minimum designed number of pressure reducing stages are still used.
In conventional labyrinth stack designs, a blockage in the stack eliminates the Cv of that path completely and in the case of a partial blockage, can actually generate noise.
PROVEN SUPERIOR TECHNOLOGY
The actual gaseous flow through RAVEN™ trims shows the visible attachment phenomenon wherein the flow stream clings to each obstruction in its path, effectively taking the line of least resistance. Also, despite the multiple relief points in the flow path, it can clearly be seen that the fluid does not recombine within the RAVEN™ trim. The flow streams remain virtually separate from each other, ensuring the best velocity control.
TYPICAL PRODUCT APPLICATIONS
Power/Auxiliary Power Units
Boiler Feed Control
Boiler Feed Pump Minimum
Flow (Bypass)
Inter Stage Attemperator Water
Control
Boiler Drum Level Control
Soot Blower Header Control
Turbine Bypass
Start-Up Steam Vent
Spray Water Control
Deaerator Level Control
Condenser Steam Dump
Sampling Systems
Oil & Gas
Feed Gas Regulator
Overboard Water Dump Valves
Water Injection Systems
Pump Min Flow Valves
Fire Water Pump Discharge Valves
& Min Flow Valves
Methanol Injection
Vapor Recovery Systems
Flue Gas Expander Bypass
First Stage Separator Level Control
Gas Transportation/Storage
Gas Injection/Production
Active/Monitor Valve Systems
Compressor Antisurge
Gas to Flare
Fuel Gas Regulation
Surge Relief
Silencers
LNG
Compressor Antisurge
Acid Gas Separator
Pump Recirculation Valves
Hot Gas Bypass Valves
Joule Thompson Valves
Gas to Flare
Emergency Depressurising Valves
Petrochemical
Compressor Antisurge
Feed Gas Regulation
Expander Bypass
Process Gas Depressurising
Gas to Flare
Amine Pump Let Down and Recircs
Aux Power Unit Valves
Liquid Amminia Let Downs
RAVEN™ Control Valve Functions
- Reductiuon in noise
- Raven provides true velocity control
- Stacked disc technology
- Narrowed wall design allows more stages of drop per second
- Manufatcured to exacting tolerances
- Lon-life reliablity
- High rangeability applications
- Antisurge valves
- Depressuring and vent valves
- Custom designed for each application
For more information you can email our Sales Manager directly at frikkie@kvcontrols.co.za
KV Controls was founded in 2016 situated in Sasolburg, we supply Total Cost of Ownership and optimum valve solutions to major industries such as chemical, refining, mining & minerals, pulp and paper, sugar and power generation industries throughout Southern Africa & Africa
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