Ball valves are quarter-turn, straight-through valves that have a round closure element with matching rounded seats that permit uniform sealing stress. The valve gets its name from the ball that ...

[Derek] sent in this electric ball valve he built for his bio-diesel reactor. If you haven’t checked, the commercial versions are pretty expensive. His solution was to mate a salvaged saturn ...

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I've been slowly upgrading the plumbing in my older home. As part of that, I'm replacing the old gate valves at each fixture with quarter-turn valves, otherwise known as ball valves. Putting a ball ...

A second challenge related to the ultrahigh capacities of these valves is that they may exceed the flow capacity of the test lab. Attempting to represent the flow capacity of an FBBV in terms of ...