Butterfly valves offer a compact, cost-effective solution for quickly shutting off the flow of fluids or gases through your piping system.
The Right Valves for Reliable Shut-Off
The butterfly plays a vital role in the ecosystem. Likewise, the butterfly valve—named for its design, which resembles the wings of a butterfly—plays a vital role in your piping system, giving you the control to rapidly and easily halt the flow of a diverse range of media through your piping systems with minimal loss of pressure.
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How Do Butterfly Valves Work?
A butterfly valve blocks the flow of fluids through your pipes by using a disk mounted on a stem. When open, the disk sits parallel to the flow of fluid through your pipe. With a simple quarter-turn of the stem by way of a manual handle or automated actuator, though, the disk turns perpendicular to the flow and blocks the flow completely. With the right seating materials, butterfly valves can form just the right seal your flow control system needs to ensure efficient, leak-free operation.
Low Pressure Drop
Cost-Effective and Compact
Quick and Easy Operation
Find the Right Type of Butterfly Valve
Butterfly valves are a versatile type of flow control valve that comes in several distinct types, each with their own advantages and use cases. Our valve offerings include:
Resilient Seated Butterfly Valves
For a tight, bi-directional seal, resilient seated butterfly valves use durable elastomer seating, which makes them easier to open and close. While they have limited temperature and chemical resistance, they are often useful for water distribution systems, wastewater treatment plants, irrigation systems, and other applications.
Double Offset Butterfly Valves
These butterfly valves use a double offset to reduce wear on the valve seating, resulting in lower operating torque and a tighter shut-off. Temperature and pressure-resistant, double offset butterfly valves well-suited for oil and gas, petrochemical, water treatment, and HVAC systems where durability, reliability, and efficiency are critical.
Triple Offset Butterfly Valves
With three offsets instead of two, triple offset butterfly valves provide a truly bubble-tight seal for high-temperature and high-pressure applications. While more expensive than the more cost-effective types of ball valves, they are well-suited for critical flow control applications where zero leakage is critical.
High Performance Butterfly Valves
By utilizing durable metal seats instead of flexible elastomers, high performance butterfly valves stand up to the most demanding and severe service conditions and ensure longer operational lifetimes, though it comes at a cost of increased expense and operating torque.
Find the right butterfly valve to suit your unique industrial applications.
Advantages of Using Butterfly Valves for Industrial Flow-Shut-Off
Quick and Easy Operation
With low operating torque, a simple quarter-turn is all it takes to open and close a butterfly valve.
Compact, Lightweight
The design of butterfly valves is very space-efficient and reduces system weight.
Low Pressure Drop
Streamlined and lightweight designs minimize pressure loss and maximize efficiency.
Versatile Applications
From liquids and slurries to powders and gases, butterfly valves can handle very diverse media.
Easy Maintenance
With their simple and straightforward design, butterfly valves are easy to install and take care of.
Cost-Effective Design
Especially in large-scale applications, butterfly valves offer better solutions for the budget-conscious.
Industrial Applications of Butterfly Valves
Choosing the Right Butterfly Valve Materials
Special Alloys
Durable, hygienic, and corrosion-resistant, stainless steel butterfly valves offer reliable performance in high-pressure applications, harsh environments, and industries where cleanliness is paramount for product safety.
Cast Iron
A cost-effective material for high-strength valves, cast iron provides excellent strength for high-temperature and high-pressure applications, making cast iron butterfly valves suitable for a wide range of industrial processes.
Get the Butterfly Valves You Need from American Stainless
Effective flow control and shut-off is critical when it comes to keeping your piping systems running smoothly, your projects on-time and on-budget, and your products and processes safe and effective. At American Stainless, quality in PVF distribution is a way of life, and we’re here to provide you with the absolute best in butterfly valves to suit the unique requirements of your industrial environment.
We partner with the best manufacturers in flow control valves and pride ourselves on unparalleled customer service so you can get the powerful, cost-effective flow control solutions you need, when you need them. Contact us to get started today!