KSB-Amri ANTI-FLUTTERING device

Pump discharge valve and valve installation.

Discharge pump, mitered elbow generates a perturbed fluid flow with large-scale fluid eddies
which could induce an uncontrolled valve trim movement.
The length of full re-establishment of a regular flow is roughly 8 times the diameter of the pipe
(AS per given by ASME Fluid journal and engineering good practice).
Reducing of this length conducts to accept a disorganized flow upstream the valve.
Greater the reducing of the length is, more the disturbance level of flow will be.

Due to economic consideration, the distance of 8 DN between hydraulic components is often

unavailable and more particularly in pumping station.
More and more, distance between pump discharge flange and butterfly valve is decreasing.
More and more quality of flow at discharge side of helico-centrifugal pump is decreasing pump
discharge bend is sharper, stabilizers of flow in discharge bend are suppressed.

In order to take into account these two opposite technical points, KSB-AMRI advises a
minimum distance between discharge pump and a butterfly valve to 3 DN because

 Average level of fluctuation of flow has been half reduced,

 This length is generally acceptable and available on main industrial site.

But, engineering practice recognizes that flow perturbation intensity at pump discharge can not
be predictable (calculated) at design stage.

KSB has experienced situations in which :

Valves located to 3 DN equivalent length of straight pipe from pump discharge were not
subject to valve trim movement called disc fluttering for butterfly valve,
On other seldom cases, valves installed in the same configurations (working conditions
and pipe installation) were subject to disc fluttering.

If such unpredictable phenomena occur at site, KSB-AMRI has developed an anti-fluttering

device.

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ANTIFLUTTERING SERIE 280

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ANTIFLUTTERING SERIE 280