COMPETITOR COMPARISON

HIGH PERFORMANCE BUTTERFLY VALVES

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Independent evaluations
highlight Bray McCannalok
advantages.

PROVEN SEAT DESIGNS OF BRAY

McCANNALOK SERIES 40/41 & 42/43 VALVES

Resilient Seat Firesafe Seat Metal Seat

NON-ENERGIZED SEAT DESIGN OF COMPETITOR

Resilient Seat Firesafe Seat Metal Seat

1 Third-party testing and evaluation conducted at Bray’s request.

BRAY ADVANTAGES LOWER TIER COMPETITOR DISADVANTAGES

Energized seat design provides reliable sealing performance Low-pressure sealing performance is not reliable, due to
at low and high pressures. non-energized seat design.

Excellent high-pressure performance in both directions, due Inferior sealing performance, as seat is pushed away from
to pressure assisted sealing technology. disc when high pressures are applied from stem side.

Resilient energizer ensures “zero-leakage” performance Sealing performance is compromised after a few thousand
through several hundred thousand cycles. cycles, due to material loss.

Seat design prevents suspended particles/solids on the Seat design allows suspended particles to be trapped
fluid stream from getting trapped between seat and the around the seat cavity, causing damage to the seat, thereby
sealing cavity. drastically reducing sealing performance and seat life.

Firesafe seats and metal seats are made with robust Firesafe seats are made with stainless steel, which has only
Inconel 718 material, which provides excellent strength 20% yield strength of Inconel 718. Metal seats are made with
and resiliency. Inconel 625, which has only 40% yield strength of Inconel 718.

Robust disc/seat design allows minimal deflection of the Poorly engineered discs cause significant deflection at high
disc, maintaining sealing performance at high pressures. pressures, leading to leakage — even during standard API
598 testing.

Body design incorporates additional material, allowing “Compromised-for-cost” design does not provide additional
retainer screws to be outside sealing area of gasket, thereby material, requiring the retaining screws to pass through
providing an uninterrupted sealing surface. the gasket — causing gasket damage during installation,
resulting in potential leakage.

Inbuilt metal-to-metal gasket compression limiter prevents Retainer sits directly on gasket — which can cause uneven
over-compression of gasket. compression, and potential gasket blowout.

Valves designed up to ASME Class 600. Limited range in size and pressure classes.

Demonstrated field experience in size range up to 66 inches

on ASME Class 150.

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