Analysis and experimental study on flow characteristic and rangeability of plug control valve

Abstract

According to the specific structure of the plug valve, a method for estimating the rated flow coefficient was proposed. Based on a variable diameter flow passage model, flow coefficient tests for four plug control valves with different specifications were carried out, and the experimental data were analyzed and researched. The results show that: (1) The proposed estimation method for calculating the rated flow coefficient of the plug valve, in which the deviation range is -6.58%∼4.10%, meets the requirement of the standard IEC 60534-2-4-2009 as not exceeding ±10%; (2) Due to the manufacturing errors, the actual inherent flow characteristic of the plug control valve is between equal percentage and parabola. The larger the flow capacity is, the more equal the flow characteristic gets; (3) The plug control valve has an outstanding feature of high rangeability, which can be up to R=979 and is obtained based on the flow coefficient test data.