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    The valve has performed well in regulating high pressure steam, controlling the process to within 10 pounds over many months of operation. The chief electrician is very satisfied with the valve's performance and ease of maintenance. He found the valve easy to disassemble and inspect, with no discernible wear after over a year of operation. The valve manufacturer also provided helpful technical support.

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    The valve has performed well in regulating high pressure steam, controlling the process to within 10 pounds over many months of operation. The chief electrician is very satisfied with the valve's performance and ease of maintenance. He found the valve easy to disassemble and inspect, with no discernible wear after over a year of operation. The valve manufacturer also provided helpful technical support.

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    Control Valve Solutions for

    Critical Power Applications

    Chief Electrician, Kentucky Utilities

    May 2014

    I have had the Trimteck-Optimux OpGL Globe Control Valve installed


    for about 16 months. Mine is a severe duty socket-weld valve to reduce
    1450psi/1000°F steam to 300psi steam to supply the air ejector for
    the turbine condenser. The valve was designed to supply 750#/hour
    with one set of jets in service, and 1500#/hour with two sets of jets in
    service. The original sizing of the orifice was ¼”, however evaluation of
    the flow characteristics showed that the flow with two jets in service
    was reaching >90% of the valve opening. Trimteck resized the orifice
    to 3/8” opening and re-evaluated the characteristics. This was a much
    better fit, with the one jet in service being around 40% open and the
    2 jets in service being around 60%.
    The valve was very simple to disassemble. We pulled the actuator and
    The valve arrived on time, and we brought it to our shop to test and valve as an assembly and took it to our shop for further inspection and
    examine before installation. We hooked up air and stroked the valve. disassembly. We called tech support with one question and they were
    The positioner was on the valve 180° from extremely helpful. The tech on the other end of the phone seemed to
    where we needed to be. I called tech have assembled the valve I had on the bench. Upon inspection of the
    support and they were able to talk me plug, seat, and stem there was no discernable wear whatsoever. Even
    “I am overall very through rotating the actuator 180°. It was where the packing had leaked there was no indication of wear. We
    happy with the really easy. reassembled the valve and returned to service. We have tightened the
    performance of the packing one time after that.
    valve. The ease of The valve was installed and nominal values
    were put into the control circuit in the DCS. I am overall very happy with the performance of the valve. The ease of
    disassembly to me It worked great with these numbers the disassembly to me surpasses any valve that I have worked on (including
    surpasses any valve first time the unit came on after outage. Fisher). I currently have my Fisher valves rebuilt by an outside contractor.
    that I have worked There were a few minor adjustments to I will not hesitate to let my technicians work on this valve, and other than
    on (including the control numbers but within a week myself, at our facility there is very little valve experience.
    the valve was controlling to within 4-5psi.
    Fisher).” On startup the valve would operate from I have 30 years of power plant experience and have worked with many
    full open and close as the inlet pressure types of valves in many different applications from low-pressure (dp) low
    increased. The factory had predicted the temperature (such as water tank level control), to high pressure, high
    valve to run at 40% open with one jet in service it runs at 39%. I was temperature (gland steam control). I am familiar with many brands
    very impressed. (Copes Vulcan, Fisher, Leslie, and DFT). I consider the Trimteck to be as
    good as any you can buy. I however did not buy Trimteck because it was
    After about 10 months I noticed the valve was leaking at the stem the cheapest or the best (I was unfamiliar with the brand). The biggest
    packing. On a brief outage we tried to tighten packing, but we did not contributing factor was their ability to supply me with the valve I needed
    succeed in stopping the leak. Our annual outage was just a few weeks in the time frame I needed. I called a couple of references, both of who
    away so we decided to leave the valve in service and replace both were pleased with their valves. I also went to the trimteck.com and
    upper and lower packing during the outage. I also decided to inspect gathered information. I am very glad I decided to go with Trimteck. The
    trim as the valve had been in a severe service application for 12 months. wear characteristics seem to surpass the others, and the company has
    We had not had an operating control valve in this application in 10 had the best tech support of any valve company I have worked with.
    years, and I did not know what to expect when it was disassembled.
    Installation was straight-
    forward. We spun the actuator
    180-degrees to make the The primary purpose of the valve (in green) is to regulate steam to the air ejector during start-up. As the chart
    positioner more accessible indicates, the process is controlled to within 10 pounds through a wide range of open positions. The OpGL
    and welded the valve in place. holds a steady state to within +/– 2 psi while moving less than 1%. The repeatability is less than 0.5% over
    several months of operation.

    About Trimteck
    Trimteck is a NASA VDB-approved, ISO 9001-2008-certified U.S.
    company (Registration No. 2012-98243) with over thirty years of
    experience engineering, manufacturing, and marketing high-quality,
    cost-effective flow, pressure, and temperature control solutions
    and equipment
    Trimteck for critical
    is a NASA processes,ISO
    VDB-registered, and our products areedcurrently
    9001-2008-certifi U.S. company (Registration No. 2012-98243) with over
    helping customers
    thirty years safely improve
    of experience quality,
    engineering, optimize throughput,
    manufacturing, and high-quality, cost-effective flow, pressure, and
    and marketing
    reduce emissions and energy costs across an array of industries
    temperature control solutions and equipment for critical processes, in and our products are currently helping customers
    more
    safelythan 42 countries.
    improve quality, optimize throughput, and reduce emissions and energy costs across an array of industries in
    moremanufacture
    We than 42 countries.
    a comprehensive line of control valves – and
    variety of actuators, positioners, severe service trims, and other
    We design and
    accessories manufacture
    – that a comprehensive
    our applications linerepresentatives
    engineers and of control valves
    use– and variety of actuators, positioners, severe
    service
    to solvetrims,
    even and other complex
    the most accessories
    flow– control
    that ourproblems
    applications engineers
    quickly and and representatives use to solve even the most Products in compliance with:
    complex flow control problems quickly and economically.
    economically. ASME B16.34
    ANSI/ISA-75.05.01-2000 (R2005)

    TRIMTECK Headquarters For more information, contact:


    USA Manufacturing Operations
    Trimteck LLC
    12461 NW 44th Street
    Coral Springs, FL 33065
    Phone – (954) 753-5545
    Fax – (954) 753-5561
    Web – www.trimteck.com
    Email – info@trimteck.com

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