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.
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