Machinery and equipment for testing of valves

Global industrial valve production totals more than $40 billion annually. These valves are used in conven-tional and nuclear power-generating plants, in chemicals and petrochemicals installations, in the sugar and paper industries, at shipyards and in a vast range of other industrial facilities, in all of which valve mainte-nance and valve testing are increasingly gaining in importance. The test systems described in the following article are suitable for testing to national and international standards of safety valves, gate valves, seat valves, butterfly valves, control valves and tank venting valves, for example, and also vessels, housings, pipes and other elements.