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CONTROL VALVE SIZING SHEET NELPROF 6.0

Item Revision Tag no

4 in Segment Control
Customer
Valve
Metso Ref. Metso Contact Cust. Ref.
Project Ingersoll Rand Davidson Created by dmcfarlain Date 24/04/12

PROCESS DATA
Pipe size inlet / outlet in 4/4 Wall thickness Schedule 40
Valve duty Control Fluid nature Gas
Description Nitrogen /
Critical pressure
Molecular weight 28.02 Ratio of specific heats 1.4
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3 Case 4
Flow rate lb/h 110340 55170 33102 1654
Upstream temperature degF 96 96 96 96
Upstream pressure psiG 450 450 450 450
Differential pressure psi 379 379 379 379
Downstream pressure psiG 71 71 71 71
Compressibility 0.984 0.984 0.984 0.984

CALCULATED PERFORMANCE
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3 Case 4
Capacity FpCv 96.79 45.26 26.87 1.35
Percent of full travel % 68.4 44.8 32.2 2.4 *
Opening in degrees deg 63.7 44.2 33.7 9
Sound pressure level dBA [VDMA] 108 * 102 * 95 * 73
Flow velocity (outlet) Mach 0.72 * 0.37 0.23 0.01
Pressure drop ratio (Xt) 0.71 0.81 0.83 0.82

VALVE SELECTION
Nominal size in 4 Maximum capacity FpCv 250 Cv 250
Valve type SEGMENT ANSI 300 ROTARY CONTROL VALVE, METAL SEATED, SEGMENT/V-PORT, WITH Q-TRIM
Valve serie Q-RE FOR NOISE AND CAVITATION ABATEMENT

ACTUATOR SIZING DATA

Supply pressure psiG 60 Valve seat std_Metal
Max shut off dp psi 450 Gland packing PTFE/TFE
Special service req. Bearings PTFE

ACTUATOR SIZING RESULTS

Selected actuator QP4C SPRING TO CLOSE DIAPHRAGM ACTUATOR
Required open ftlb 42 Required close ftlb 42
Opening load factor % 12 Closing load factor % 18

Case 1 Case 2 Case 3 Case 4

Req control to open ftlb 176 106 73 41
Ctrl open load factor % 52 25 17 10
Req control to close ftlb -103 -33 -0 32
Ctrl close load factor % ok ok ok 11

Notes

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