Hobbs Valve provide the solution yet again

Hobbs Valve can now offer our TVT range of Triple Offset Butterfly Valves suitable for Fire Safe Certified
Applications free of graphite, eliminating the potential for Galvanic Corrosion in Duplex Valves.
Offshore applications have an inherent safety need to be Fire Safe Certified ensuring critical valves are
operable during and or after a fire event. This critical need offers an obstacle in choices of material whilst
attempting to minimise or remove corrosive opportunities. Galvanic Corrosion has proven to be a Global
Problem in Sea Water applications when combined with Duplex Stainless Steel and Graphite.
Hobbs once again has stepped ahead of the class and approved a new innovative material selection that allows
the use of non-graphite material but maintaining fire safe certification. Currently Hobbs is the only Triple Offset
Butterfly Valve Manufacturer Globally capable of delivering such a result. Ashley Ford Product Engineering
Manager states "It is imperative in todays markets that End Users can rely on Manufacturers to deliver
innovative results to solve long standing problems and make all attempts to reduce the cost of exploration in
the offshore industry, it is because of this that Hobbs continually attempt to solve the customers need prior to
being requested"
Historically Graphite in certain service conditions would normally have been replaced with PTFE or RPTFE which
only has a maximum operating temperature of around 260 deg C.
Hobbs Valve can now offer a range of Duplex and Super Duplex Valves that are graphite free and fire safe. The
fire safe capabilities of these valves were confirmed by successfully passing the test requirements for
confirming the pressure-containing capability of a valve during and after a fire in line with the international
standard ISO 10497:2010 as witnessed by Lloyds register.