ACI is a Valtorc Valve Distributor

We’re happy to announce we have just became the official distributors and resellers of  Valtorc Control Valves. Valtorc International valves are USA made and we have a supply stock ready to ship.  We currently stock Valtorc AWWA and Stainless Steel Butterfly Valves and Valtorc International Ball Valve products such as their:  Brass Ball Valves, Stainless Steel Ball Valves and 3-Way Ball Valves.  In addition, we also distributor Valtorc Electric Actuators and Pneumatic Actuators.  Contact our sales team to find out more, or visit Valtorc directly @ Valtorc.com today!

With the development of technologies, there are many styles of Control Valves bodies. Some of them can be applied to meet various requirements. Following are introductions about some ones.

The first one is the single-port valve bodies. It is the most common style and is simple in construction. It is available in various forms, such as globe, angle, bar stock, forged, and split constructions. Generally, single-port valves are specified for applications with stringent shutoff requirements. They use metal-to-metal seating surfaces or soft-seating with PTFE or other composition materials forming the seal. They can handle most service requirements. Because high-pressure fluid is normally loading the entire area of the port, the unbalance force created must be considered in selecting actuators for them.

Balanced-plug cage-style valve body is also a popular type. It is single ported in the sense that only one seat ring is used, provides the advantages of a balanced valve plug often associated only with double-ported ones. Cage-style trim provides valve plug guiding, seat ring retention, and flow characterization. In addition to a sliding piston ring-type seal between the upper portion of the valves plug and the wall of the cage cylinder virtually eliminates leakage of the upstream high pressure fluid into the lower pressure downstream system.

The third one is the high capacity, cage-guided valve bodies. It is mainly designed for noise applications such as high pressure gas reducing stations where sonic gas velocities are often encountered at the outlet of conventional ball valve or Control Valves bodies. The design incorporates oversize end connections with a streamlined flow path and the ease of trim maintenance inherent with cage-style constructions.