Valve and Actuator Technologies
Schedule & Fees
Start Date:
20 Oct 2025
End Date:
24 Oct 2025
Venue:
Geneva
Fees:
6800€
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Valve and Actuator Technologies Course
Introduction:
Course Objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
· Differentiating between the different types of valves available, and focusing on their advantages and disadvantages
· Developing a system, using the specific actuators that will provide the greatest benefit, based on their individual advantages and disadvantages
· Selecting the appropriate additional equipment (and, combinations of equipment, where necessary)
· Learning to take any installation from the specification and selection process, right through to installation and maintenance phases
· Sizing valves correctly, whilst identifying and gaining familiarity with ANSI / DIN pipe sizes and pressure ratings
Who Should Attend?
This course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Instrumentation technicians and engineers
- Process engineers
- Maintenance personnel (specifically, from those fields closely associated with the equipment)
- Supervisory personnel
- Mechanical engineers
- Design staff
- Representatives from the health and safety departments
- Engineers in other disciplines
- People from a financial background, who have an interest in cost containment, by using the most effective devices available
- Management and senior management staff
Course Outlines:
Valve Basics - What happens inside the Valve from a Process Point of View, Valve Types and Associated Hardware
- Valve purposes, principles, flow conditions and operation
- Signals, pressure drops, flow profiles and Reynolds numbers
- Cv, choked flow and flashing and cavitation
- The requirements, classification and selected associated hardware for valves and actuators
- The operation, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of an assortment of different types of valves, including cage, split-body, globe, needle, angled, y-styled, 3-way, pinch, gate (including slab gate and expending gate), choke, check (including rubber duck-bill, tilting disc & swing), single-vs double-seated, and balanced valves
A Continuation of Valve Types, Associated Equipment and Characteristics
- The operation, as advantages and disadvantages of an assortment of different types of valves not covered on Day 1 (including butterfly, ball, rotary plug, diaphragm, ARV / ARC, Bellow sealed (both forged and welded), breathe / vacuum release, orbit, pressure seal, fixed cone and annular valves
- Miscellaneous equipment, closely associated with valves and actuators
- P&ID diagrams (using valves) and valve seat leakage rates
- Characteristics associated with valves
- Inherent versus installed characteristics
Manual and Software Valve Sizing, Actuators, and Positioners, Trims and Maintenance
- Manually sizing a valve
- Sizing a valve, using software from manufacturers
- Actuators, bench setting, and valve positioners
- Cavitation and noise trims and valve material selection
- Valve maintenance, fault finding, dead band and stiction
Pressure Relief, SIS, Valve Action, Combinations, Terminology, Codes, and Standards
- Pressure relief devices and the limitation of safety relief valves
- Valves associated with safety instrumented systems
- Valve action (fail-safe), ANSI / DN pipe sizes and applicable pressure ratings
- Optimizing valve-actuator combinations for various applications, terminology used, and valve and actuator maintenance aspects and issues
- Codes and standards as well as piping & installation guidelines
Using Control Valves in an Assortment of Control Strategies
- PID and loop tuning strategies
- Feedback, feedforward, cascade and ratio control
- Dealing with long-dead times
- Non-linear control valve applications
Valve control, using a specialized controller such as a PLC