Sanitary Ball Valve Applications
Sanitary ball valve with tri-clamp/Thread/Flange ends, which is extensively used in food & beverage processing, brewing, oil refinery, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries to control medium flow. The full port design with zero restriction makes it an optimum choice for viscous and particulate liquids, TKFM’S ball valve operates manually by 180° rotary handle.
Sanitary Ball Valve Specifications
When getting sanitary ball valves for the various sterile processing applications, you have to consider what you need it for and its specifications such as diameter, operating temperature, material temperature, and the working pressure. The diameter measurement should be taken across the cylindrical port.
Measurement can be pipe measure (Nominal Pipe Size) or tubing measure (Outside Diameter, OD). Tubing measure is most common. Almost all sanitary piping measurements are taken in tube OD, which means the outside diameter of the tube should be the one considered.
You can also get sanitary ball valves with more than one inlet and outlet ports. For example, there’re sanitary ball valves with T or L port ball drilling that make them either: 2-way ball or 3-way ball valves. But radiuses have to be within the minimum standard to limit the entrapment of media.
Working pressure, on the other hand, is the level of pressure the valve has meant to function in. The standard pressure ratings are 800 PSI or 1000 PSI. The operating temperature is the ambient range of temperatures in which the valve functions well. Material temperature is the media (fluid) temperature the valve seat can handle.
Sanitary ball valves features:
- The valve limits crevices and cavities which would otherwise trap media and encourage bacterial activity.
- It makes use of but-weld, tri-clamp end, flanges, threads for tight-shut off to prevent contamination from outside sources.
- It makes use of FDA approved Teflon seats and other cavity fillers to limit fluid entrapment.
- It’s Aseptic because it has refined contact surfaces.
- Standard:3A/DIN/JIS/BS/ISO
Design Features
- Free of maintenance
Compact design, small and light
● Small operating torque
● End connections: Tri-clamp or tube weld ends
● Available as manual or actuated (pneumatic/electric valve)
● Three-way ball valve (T type or L type ball core available for choose from).
● With/without purge ports for SIP/CIP
● Certificate: ISO/CE/TUV/FDA/3A.
Operations
- Manual Handle
Actuators
Pneumatic stainless actuator (vertical type)
Pneumatic aluminum actuator (horizontal type)
Electric actuator
● Units for intelligent control and indication:
Proximity Switches (position sensor)
Limit Switch
C-top control
IL-top control (Positioner)
TECHNICAL DATA
Body: SS304/SS316L/CF8/CF8M
Other steel parts:SS304/CF8
Seat Material:PTFE/EPDM/Silica gel
Max. Working Pressure:10/16bar/1000WOG
Working Temperature:Teflon (PTFE): -20 ~ 180°C ( PPL) -20 ~ 220°C
Internal Finish:Ra 16 ~ 32µin (0.4 ~ 0.8µm), Ra 32µin as default
External Finish:Ra 16 ~ 32µin (0.4 ~ 0.8µm), Ra 32µin as default.
End Connections:butt-welded, sanitary tri-clamp, or others upon request.
3 way Flow Plan:T type or L type
