Tortuous path control valves for vibration and noise control
- Control Components Inc., Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (United States)
Control valves are needed in many offshore applications involving fluid pressure drop levels that result in excessive system noise and vibration. These situations occur in liquid and gas flow applications. The root cause of the destructive forces that result in noise and vibration is excessive fluid velocities and the kinetic energy associated with these velocities during the pressure letdown. These high uncontrolled velocities can also cause significant erosion of internal parts that would result in a measurable degradation of the valve performance. The use of a multi-path, multi-staged trim design results in fluid velocities that will eliminate the noise and vibration associated with the pressure letdown. Valves of this type are used in chokes, pipeline vents, flow to flare, compressor recycle, pump minimum flow, level control, pressure letdown, fire water control, and bypass flow to mention a few.
- OSTI ID:
- 287885
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960154-; ISBN 0-9648731-8-4; TRN: IM9639%%505
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Energy Week `96: American Society of Mechanical Engineers and American Petroleum Institute energy week conference and exhibition, Houston, TX (United States), 21 Jan - 2 Feb 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Energy week `96: Conference papers. Book 3: Drilling and production economics; PB: 419 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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