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A control valve is a valve that regulates fluid flow through a process. Control valves have characteristics like Cv, flow coefficient, that define their flow properties. Common control valve trim types include linear, equal percentage, and quick opening. Control valve selection involves specifying conditions and sizing the valve body and trim.

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A. Control Valves Question

A control valve is a valve that regulates fluid flow through a process. Control valves have characteristics like Cv, flow coefficient, that define their flow properties. Common control valve trim types include linear, equal percentage, and quick opening. Control valve selection involves specifying conditions and sizing the valve body and trim.

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Q: What is a control valve?

A: A control valve is a valve used to control fluid flow by varying the size of the flow passage as
directed by a signal from the controller.

Q: What is a valve Cv?

A: Valve Cv is the volume of water in USGPM at 60 oF that will flow across a valve with a pressure
drop of 1 psi across the valve.

Q: What is choked flow?

A: Choked flow is a limiting condition where the mass flow doesn’t increase with a further decrease
in the downstream pressure environment for a fixed upstream pressure and temperature.

Q: Why is every control valve a FCV?

A: Control valves are used to maintain process parameters like Temperature, Level and Pressure to a
specified value on the basis of feedback from the controller. Since the controlling is done by
changing the fluid flow area across the control valve and directly controlling the fluid flow across the
control valve hence every control valve is a flow control valve which indirectly controls other process
parameters.

Q: What are control valve flow characteristics?

A: The relationship between control valve capacity and valve stem travel is known as the flow
characteristic of the control valve. The most common flow characteristics are as below:
 Linear - Flow capacity increases linearly with valve travel.
 Equal percentage- Flow capacity increases exponentially with valve trim travel. Equal
increments of valve travel produce equal percentage changes in the existing Cv.
 Quick opening- An inherent flow characteristic in which a maximum flow coefficient is
achieved with minimal valve travel.

Q: What is valve trim?


A: Valve trim includes the stem, plug, disc, seating surface, etc. It’s also the plug and seating
arrangement’s actual shape. The flow properties of the valve are determined by the shape of the
valve plug.
Q: Explain the control valve selection Process?
A: Here are the steps to select the valve:
1. Determine service condition
2. Specify Inlet Pressure, Pressure drop across valve, flow rate, Inlet temperature, fluid
properties etc.
3. Calculate preliminary Cv required using flow chart from ANSI ISA .75.01.01.
4. Select the trim type.
5. Select the valve body and trim size.

When the process engineer does not have access to vendor catalogue for concept or FEED stage
study, then the control valve sizing can be determined from below rule of thumb.
Cv=10 d2
Here d is valve size in inch.

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