How To Install And Maintain Ball Valves? Ball Valve Manufacturers Answer Your Questions!

2 Piece Ball Valve can be divided into three types according to the structure, namely floating ball valve, fixed ball valve and elastic ball valve. It is a round sphere with a hole. Because of the existence of the ball core, it can be rotated 0-90° to open or close. After we buy the ball valve from the ball valve manufacturer, we must also pay attention to the subsequent installation and maintenance.

1. Installation of ball valve

Any section of the ball valve needs to be installed at the upstream end. If it is a handle ball valve, it can be installed at any pipeline position, but if it is configured with an actuator, such as a gear box, this type of ball valve must be installed vertically to ensure subsequent normal operation.

The ball valve manufacturer reminds everyone that a sealing gasket must be installed between the ball valve flange and the pipeline flange. This is a basic installation requirement in pipeline design.

2. Maintenance of ball valve

If you want to disassemble the ball valve, you need to remove the pressure before and after the ball valve so that it can be removed. When disassembling and installing the ball valve, the sealing parts contained therein must be protected, especially those parts that are not made of metal, such as O-rings, which must be disassembled using special tools. When reinstalling the ball valve body, all bolts must be tightened symmetrically and evenly.

Of course, if there is a problem with the ball valve, we don’t know how to repair it ourselves. At this time, we need to find the ball valve manufacturer that originally purchased the ball valve to coordinate and ask them to send professional staff to repair it, so as to ensure that the equipment can continue to work normally and orderly.