disc and seat material for globe valve
Every body can tell me if globe valve disc and seat are 13% chrome steel. It can be stellite or it doesn't need stellite .the service of valve for sweet gas.
Various issues being thrown about here, some needlessly so. There are generally four primary reasons to use a stellited trim.
1) Fluid stream solids
2) Gallable materials
3) Process fluid
4) Excessive pressure drops across the trim
Fluid
stream solids are an easy one, particulate matter in the fluid stream
can damage trim surfaces, but thay also damage body surfaces too. Both
should be a concern even though the trim would be primary.
Gallable
materials like 316 stainless steel can gall under high seat loads,
stelliting one or both surfaces can make this go away or at least reduce
it significantly.
Fluid stream material is a significant
issue. It was suggest that the process fluid has little impact,
totally untrue. All other things being equal, a valve controlling
nitrogen has a significanly better chance of survival that one
contolling 300 deg F water. Some materials are just naturally more
abrasive.
And finally yes large pressure drops can create several
different forms of cavitation type damage. This is a very real issue
and in some cases if the pressure drop is high enough using an abrasive
fluid, stellite will not survive either.
After all of these
issues are considered and with full application data, you can typically
make a decent decision on the trim material. I could help further if
you need me too, I'd need more app data to provide a suggestion though.
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