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TRIPLE OFFSET BUTTERFLY VALVES

May 2003 www.velan.com Volume No.3

TORQSEAL Valves Available With a Variety of Seals; TORQSEAL for Jet Fuel;
Velan is developing a variety of laminated seals with Velan TORQSEAL valves
suppliers for various applications including high are being used on jet
temperature. Velan is developing a high temperature fuel service. Velan
bonding that will replace the phenolic resin bonding of supplied 35 - 8” 150
the standard seal. These laminated seals will be avail- class TORQSEAL valves
able in various materials including Inconel, Nitronic 50,
to the Air Force for jet
Monel, Hastalloy and many other materials.
fuel isolation. The
governing legislation
Preferred Direction vs. requires that jet fuel
Non-Preferred Direction; have zero leakage,
therefore TORQSEAL
The TORQSEAL valve has a preferred Photo;
Electrically automated valves were
and non-preferred direction as stan-
dard. The preferred direction would
TORQSEAL valve destined specified.
to a power station in
be shaft side high pressure as the the U.S.
pressure in the flow would assist the
disc in sealing. Non-preferred would
try to push the disc away from the Velan Working on the 600 Class
seat while it is in the closed posi- TORQSEAL Valves;
tion. Therefore there is an HP
stamped on the preferred direc- We are working on the 600 class butterfly
tion of the valve that stands for valves and are expecting to have up to
HIGH PRESSURE. Note: The rea- 12" by the fall of 2003. We will expand the
son why a flow arrow was not size range to 24" after the release of the 4"
used was for applications such as to 12" sizes. Please note that we will not be
pump isolation whereas preferred quoting any 600 class valves until after the
sealing direction and the high pres- final approval and release of the 600 class
sure side are not necessarily the same. to market.

Velan Developing Aluminum Bronze Butterfly
Valves for Sea Water Applications;
Velan is now quoting aluminum bronze butterfly
valves for sea water applications.
For further information on the above,
please contact the Quarter-Turn
Metal Seated Quotations Department.
Velan France Developing Cryogenic TORQSEAL;
The engineers in our Lyon operations are starting
work on developing the TORQSEAL valve for cryogenic
applications. They already have their existing
cryogenic butterfly valve but feel with the higher
pressure class the TORQSEAL valve will expand the
offering quite nicely. A new catalogue with the
cryogenic TORQSEAL valve will be printed this spring.

Velan TORQSEAL will be on display at the Achema 2003 Show in Frankfurt, Germany.
Please visit us at Hall 8.0, Booth Number F25-F27.
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Photo to right:
Velan was awarded a
project for automated
TORQSEAL valves going
to a petrochemical
plant in Vietnam.

Photo below:
Pressure testing the
automated TORQSEAL
valve to the API 598
resillient seat standard.

TOP TEN TORQSEAL DISTRIBUTORS

1) Matheson Valves & Fittings

2) Ferguson Enterprises
3) Sunbelt
4) Control Equipment
5) McJunkin
6) National Oilwell
7) Mid State Supply
8) KS Tech
9) Rencor
10) Carotek
Congratulations to the above mentioned distributors
for their hard work and dedication to the product line.
As our internal inventory builds up and that of our
stocking distributors we are seeing many more day to
day orders. As a result of that as well as excellent
sales efforts by our distribution sales reps and the
Velan Regional Managers, we are being added to
many end user approval/acceptance lists.
As mentioned in previous updates continuous feed-
back is essential for the long term development of this
product line. Any reports on successes with the prod-
uct line will be included in future TORQSEAL updates.

Quarter Turn Metal-Seated Valve Department - Contact Information

General Information - Tel.: (514) 748-7743 Fax: (514) 908-0213
Craig Bekins - Marketing Manager (ext 5275)
John Leduc - Product Sales Manager for Torqseal
cbekins@velanvalve.com
Butterfly Valves (ext 5556)
Mike Mogianesi - Quotations Administrator (ext 5240) jleduc@velanvalve.com
mmogiane@velanvalve.com
Saverio Aloe - Applications Engineer (ext 5286)
Karen Brebner - Administrative Assistant (ext 5284)
saloe@velanvalve.com
kbrebner@velanvalve.com