Global Valve and Controls

Our corporate office is located in Houston, Texas with stocking distribution locations throughout North America. Global Valve and Controls has serviced the industrial market for nearly a decade. Within this decade GVC has worked closely with many leading Oil & Gas, Energy, Petrochemical and Agriculture companies worldwide, providing valve flow control products of the highest performance and superior quality at competitive pricing.

GVC provides high performance industrial ball valves at competitive prices. We maintain a comprehensive in-house inventory of all our products ensuring your order is ready for immediate delivery.

The Overview of Long Pipeline Ball Valve

In the long pipeline system, the required pipeline ball valve must have the following functions such as controlling the medium, changing the direction of the medium flow, preventing reflux, cutting off the medium, blocking the pipe and so on.

In order to realize the above-mentioned functions, the long pipeline ball valve must be provided with the following features. Firstly, reliable sealability. The long-distance pipeline can only be checked at the regular time and sometimes it has to pass through high mountain, desert, grassland, earthquake region and other places. If the sealability is not good, it maybe will result in leakage or even the serious accident. Therefore, for preventing these things, this kind of valve must have the good sealability, especially for the sealiability of urgent grease injection. Secondly, the operation time should be long. Once the long pipeline ball valve is used, it can not stop working in several years or even in more than ten years. The longer it operates, the better it is. For prolong the service time, the valve seat is of great importance. Because to some degree it depends on the using time of the valve. Thirdly, the valve must have the high strength and resistance force. In the transportation process, the pressure of this valve may reach at 10.0MPa and the length may be very long. Therefore, it is easy to suffer the extending, curving or squeezing by the external forces such as earthquake, temperature or equipment vibration. In order to ensure the normal operation of the valve, enough strength is essential. Fourthly, the long pipeline ball valve should be resistant to corrosion. Because the natural gas contains the Hydrogen sulfide, which can erode the valve and eat the mechanical device, it is of great importance to select resistance-proof material. Fifthly, it has the automatic function. As we know, the long pipeline ball valve is controlled by the central control room. So in order to control the valve at the long distance immediately, the valve should be controlled automatically. Last but not least, the valve must be light in weight and tight in structure. With this feature, it is convenient to install and repair the valve.