Control Valve Articles

This section contains control valve articles that I have published.

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Valve Sizing, Chemical Processing, Fluid Flow Annual, 1999
Valve Sizing.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 4.2 MB
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Valve Wars, Plant Services, January,1999
Valve Wars.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 373.3 KB
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In the Flow with Control Valves, Chemical Processing March 2000
In the Flow with Control Valves.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 865.9 KB
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Valve Sizing 101, Valve Magazine, August 2012
Valve Sizing 101.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 210.5 KB
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Control Valve Q and A, Flow Control, November, 2012
Control Valve Q and A.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 648.3 KB
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Understanding the Impact of Flow Characteristics and Sizing, Flow Control, February 2015
Flow Charcteristics.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 835.1 KB
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An Insiders Guide to Control Valves and Process Variability, Flow Control, March 2015
Process Variability.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 1.3 MB
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Installed Gain as a Valve Sizing Criterion, Flow Control, May 2015
Installed Gain.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 1.7 MB
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Keys to Effective Valve Sizing & Selection, Flow Control, July 2015
Valve Sizing and Selection.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 1.4 MB
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Modern Tools for Sizing Control Valves and Actuators, Processing, January 2018
Modern Tools.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 4.1 MB
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Predicting Cavitation Damage, Flow Control, May 2018
Predicting Cavitation Damage.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 3.6 MB
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Why Equal Percentage Valves Act Linear, Control, September 2018
Why Ewual Percentge Valves Act Linear.pd
Adobe Acrobat Document 496.2 KB
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Liquid Flashing in a Control Valve Without Choked Flow, Chemical Engineering, December 2018
Luquid Flashing Without Choked Flow.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 437.9 KB
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Stop Cavitation from Destroying Your Control Valve Trims, Valve World, December 2019
Stop Cavitation from Destroying Control
Adobe Acrobat Document 598.4 KB
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Graphing the Installed Flow and Gain of a Control Valve, Process Instrumentation, March 2021
Graphing Installed Flow and Gain.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 1.9 MB
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Using Installed Gain Calculations, Intech December 2021
Using Installed Gain Calcs.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 1.4 MB
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Worksheet Predicts control valve Hydrodynamic Noise
Valve World, July 2022
An enhanced version of the worksheet described in this article can be downloaded from the "Worksheets" page
Worksheet Predicts Hydrodynamic Noise.pd
Adobe Acrobat Document 285.4 KB
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Worksheet predicts control valve aerodynamic noise
Valve World, October 2022
An enhanced version of the worksheet described in this article can be downloaded from the "Worksheets" page
Worksheet Predicts Aerodynamic Noise.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 142.8 KB
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Worksheet calculates gas compressibility factor for control valve sizing
InTech Focus September 2022
The worksheet described in this article can be downloaded from the "Worksheets" page
Gas Compressibility InTech Focus .pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 2.2 MB