Cryogenic Service Ball Valve

ARITA cryogenic ball valves have been developed to satisfy the rapid increasing of world LNG and other low temperature industry demand. All ARITA cryogenic ball valves are designed and tested as per BS6364 and Shell MESC Spe 77/306. ARITA standard cryogenic ball valves are antistatic,fire-safe and low emission designed. ARITA in-house laboratory use the latest computer aid technologies and is capable of certifying valves upto size 24 and temperature range from 46 ~196

Application
The cryogenic ball valve is applicable to different pipeline of Class150 Class1500. By adopting different materials, the cryogenic ball valve is applicable to different working temperature and medium. The minimum temperature for the ball valve is -196 .The operation of the ball valve can be manual operated, gear operated, pneumatic operated and motor operated. The end connection usually is flanged ends. However, the welded ends are also optional.

Product Range
The cryogenic ball valve has two types: floating ball and trunnion mounted ball. For their range, face to face dimension and flange dimension, please refer to the corresponding data of common floating ball valve and trunnion mounted ball valve. For valves with working temperatrue above-50 ,long neck design is seldom adopted. For valves with working temperature below - 50 , the neck length H1 shall be 250mm, or shall be decided as per our own design and calculation.

Structure Features Of Cryogenic Ball Valve

Cryogenic ball valve is used for low temperature wording condition, especially for some hazard media, such as liquidized natural gas. Our company has been experienced in the design, manufacturing, inspection and test of cryogenic ball valve.

Choose For Material

Common steels are brittle in the cryogenic condition. So, the key point for the design and production of cryogenic ball is to select proper body material according to the minimum working temperature of the ball valve. To ensure the material suitability under the low temperature condition, the material adopted shall be impact tested according to the standard requirement. The packing, gasket, bolt and nut shall also adopt the materials suitable for low temperature condition.

Minimum Working Temperature For Body Material

Forging Minimum temperature
-46 -59 -73 -101 -254 -254 -254 -254

Material
ASTM A352 LCB ASTM A352 LCC ASTM A352 LC1 ASTM A352 LC2 ASTM A352 LC3 ASTM A351 CF8 ASTM A351 CF8M ASTM A351 CF3 ASTM A351 CF3M

Casting Minimum temperature

-46 -46 -59 -73 -101 -254 -254 -254 -254

Control valve

Pressure instrument Needle valve

Adjust valve Autitemperature cap Cooling thread pipe Tested valve Alcohol bottle Liquid nitrogen Flow meter

Helium vase

Model type cryogenic test equipment

Cryogenic Service Ball Valve

Design And Manufacturing Features
Being required by the standard,the long neck design is usually adopted for the ball valve below -50?. The long neck design can keep the heat at the packing position and ensure the reliable sealing performance of the valve packing. The length of the neck complies to the standard, but, can be also changed as per the customers request in the contract. For cryogenic ball valve, if the valve is at closed position, the cryogenic liquid stayed in the cavity of the valve will be gasified and expanded when the temperature gets rising. This will cause the unusual high pressure in the cavity, and maybe break the valve. To avoid such dangerous accident, our ball valve has self-relief function for the cavity pressure. When the pressure in the cavity unusually rises, the medium in the cavity will push the seat to relive the pressure by its own force. Such design will endure the safety of the valve.

Cryogenic Test
All components are cryogenic (-196 ) treatment prior to assembling. Valve is disassembled for degreasinge after hydrostatic and air test per API 598. Valve is re-assembled and was sumked in liquid nitrogen (-196 ) and tested with pure helium gas to detected the seat leakage.
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Gear operator

Dimensions
DN in
1/2 3/4 1 1 1/2 2 2 1/2 3 4 5 6 8 10

Class 150LB Full Port D L W mm mm mm

12.7 19 25.4 38 51 64 76 102 125 152 203 254 108 117 127 165 178 191 203 229 356 394 457 533 130 130 160 230 230 400 400 700 1100 * * *

H1 mm
200 200 200 250 250 300 300 300 350 350 350 400

H mm
259 263 276 347 357 442 452 478 602 622 692 820

Weight Kg
3.1 3.9 5.8 8.4 11.2 17 21.5 36 62 98 168 310

DN in
1/2 3/4 1 1 1/2 2 2 1/2 3 4 5 6 8 10

Class 300LB Full Port D L W mm mm mm

12.7 19 25.4 38 51 64 76 102 125 152 203 254 140 152 165 190 216 241 283 305 381 403 502 568 130 130 160 230 230 400 400 700 1100 * * *

H1 mm
200 200 200 250 250 300 300 300 350 350 350 400

H mm
259 263 276 347 357 442 452 478 602 622 692 820

Weight Kg
3.5 4.8 7.0 12 18 30 39 60 100 122 242 400