ME8694

HYDRAULICS AND PNEUMATICS

UNIT-2

HYDRAULIC CONTROL COMPONENTS

 Hydraulic Valves
• Valves are used to control the direction,
pressure, and flow rate of a fluid flowing
through the circuit.
1. Directional control valves
2. Pressure control valves
3. Flow control valves
 Directional control valves
Directional control valves allow fluids (or) gases to flow into
different paths from valve ports, which provide a passageway for
flow to (or) from other components/sources.
Directional control valves
 Flow Control Valve
A flow control valve regulates the flow or pressure of a fluid
 Pressure control valves
• Different types of pressure control valves
include relief, reducing, sequence,
counterbalance, safety, and unloading.
• All of them are typically closed valves, except
for reducing valves, which are usually open.
 Types Pressure control valves
• Relief Valves
• Sequence Valves
• Counterbalance Valves
• Unloading Relief Valves
• Pressure Reducing Valves/Pressure Reducing and
Check Valves
• Brake Valves
• Balancing Valves (Pressure Reducing and Relieving
Valves)
• Pressure Switches
Sequence Valve
Counterbalance Valve
Unloading Relief Valve
Pressure Reducing/ check valve
Brake Valve
Balancing Valve
Pressure switch
Servo valves
 Proportional valve
• A proportional valve provides a change in output
pressure or flow in the same ratio as the change in
the input, for example if the input doubles then the
output will also double.
 Hydraulic Accessories
• Reservoirs
• Filter
• Valves
• Accumulators
• Actuators
• Pressure Switches
Fluid Power ANSI Symbols