A new guide from steam expert, Spirax Sarco, is designed to emphasise to engineers and purchasing teams the importance of control valve specification and design.
Authored by Darren Silverthorn, the company’s National Controls specialist, Increasing Your Process Productivity and Boosting Process Efficiency highlights the best practice approach to specifying control valves for users’ systems and avoiding challenges such as product quality and spoilage issues, control valve failure, and unplanned downtime. Spirax Sarco says the aim is to support engineers and purchasing teams ‘in providing tools and the know-how to ensure accurate and reliable process control, and mitigate the risk of downtime and product spoilage’.
The company said: “The guide offers a tool to help users find the lowest total cost of ownership by looking beyond the initial cost at different requirements including process characteristics, energy-saving capability, maintenance, and support. The tool enables users to score against a series of key questions they should be asking their supplier about control valve design, and the support they can provide. In turn, this will help indicate towards a valve that can offer the lowest total cost of ownership from those assessed.
“There are three core pillars associated with control valve specification – accuracy, reliability and efficiency.” explained Darren Silverthorn. “If you can fulfil each of these, coupled with a regular maintenance programme, you can ultimately avoid the challenges that incorrect valve specification can bring, leaving you to focus instead on opportunities to optimise process control.”
A new guide from steam expert, Spirax Sarco, is designed to emphasise to engineers and purchasing teams the importance of control valve specification and design.
Authored by Darren Silverthorn, the company’s National Controls specialist, Increasing Your Process Productivity and Boosting Process Efficiency highlights the best practice approach to specifying control valves for users’ systems and avoiding challenges such as product quality and spoilage issues, control valve failure, and unplanned downtime. Spirax Sarco says the aim is to support engineers and purchasing teams ‘in providing tools and the know-how to ensure accurate and reliable process control, and mitigate the risk of downtime and product spoilage’.
The company said: “The guide offers a tool to help users find the lowest total cost of ownership by looking beyond the initial cost at different requirements including process characteristics, energy-saving capability, maintenance, and support. The tool enables users to score against a series of key questions they should be asking their supplier about control valve design, and the support they can provide. In turn, this will help indicate towards a valve that can offer the lowest total cost of ownership from those assessed.
“There are three core pillars associated with control valve specification – accuracy, reliability and efficiency.” explained Darren Silverthorn. “If you can fulfil each of these, coupled with a regular maintenance programme, you can ultimately avoid the challenges that incorrect valve specification can bring, leaving you to focus instead on opportunities to optimise process control.”
