Types of valve
Valves are mechanical devices that control the flow of fluids such as gas, liquid, fluidised solids, slurries, and so on, by opening, closing or partially obstructing a passage.
Types of valve include:
- Air regulation valve.
- Air admittance valve.
- Air attenuator valve.
- Appliance isolation valve.
- Basin isolation valve.
- Bath isolation valve.
- Ball valve.
- Butterfly valve.
- Check valve.
- Constant flow regulator.
- Differential pressure control valve.
- Differential type dry pipe valve.
- Double regulating valve.
- Dry pipe valve.
- Durgo valve.
- Flap valve.
- Float valve.
- Flow regulating valve.
- Four-port valve.
- Gate valve.
- Mechanical type dry pipe valve.
- Non-return valve.
- Pressure independent control valve.
- Pressure regulating valve.
- Pressure-relief valve.
- Quarter turn ball valve.
- Quick-closing valve.
- Reduced pressure zone valve.
- Shut off valve.
- Stop valve.
- Thermostatic mixing valve.
- Three-port valve.
- Two-port valve.
- Wet alarm valve.
- Zone valve.
See also: Valve.
Featured articles and news
Editor's broadbrush view on forms of electrical heating in context.
The pace of heating change; BSRIA market intelligence
Electric Dreams, Boiler Realities.
New President of ECA announced
Ruth Devine MBE becomes the 112th President of the Electrical Contractors Association.
New CIAT Professional Standards Competency Framework
Supercedes the 2019 Professional Standards Framework from 1 May 2025.
Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds
Free exhibition at the RIBA Architecture Gallery until 31 May.
PPN 021: Payment Spot Checks in Public Sub-Contracts
Published following consultation and influence from ECA.
Designing Buildings reaches 20,000 articles
We take a look back at some of the stranger contributions.
Lessons learned from other industries.
The Buildings of the Malting Industry. Book review.
Conserving places with climate resilience in mind.
Combating burnout.
The 5 elements of seiri, seiton, seiso, seiketsu and shitsuke.
Shading for housing, a design guide
A look back at embedding a new culture of shading.
The Architectural Technology Awards
The AT Awards 2025 are open for entries!
ECA Blueprint for Electrification
The 'mosaic of interconnected challenges' and how to deliver the UK’s Transition to Clean Power.
Grenfell Tower Principal Contractor Award notice
Tower repair and maintenance contractor announced as demolition contractor.