The Vortex Quantum Series Orifice Gate valve offers significant advantages over traditional knife gates and butterfly valves. Other gate valves, knife gates, slide gates, and butterfly valves rely on soft rubber seals that erode away or tear when handling dry bulk material. The Vortex Quantum Series Orifice Gate valve eliminates these problems by using “live loaded”, hard polymer seals.
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Hard polymer seals
Other gate valves, knife gates, slide gates, and butterfly valves rely on soft rubber seals that erode away or tear when handling dry bulk material. The Vortex Orifice Gate valve eliminates these problems by using “live loaded”, hard polymer seals.
Material wedging
Knife gates and butterfly valves with round end blades commonly allow wedging of dry material – preventing positive air and material shut off. The blade jams and packs material against the seals, quickly abrading the seals. The patented design of the Orifice Gate valve clears material away from the sealing areas to allow positive gate valve closure and minimal seal wear.
Valve cleanliness
Other knife gates contain retention ledges and areas where materials can become trapped. This creates spoilage of material and blade actuation problems. The Vortex Orifice Gate valve is a full-ported valve, with no ledges.
Material flow
Butterfly valves utilize a disc that reduces the material flow area. Certain material has a tendency to pack and bridge around the disc. The Vortex Orifice Gate valve offers unrestricted material flow for enhanced system performance.
Many choices
Vortex slide gate valves offer customers a choice of sizes, mounting options, actuators, and materials of construction. These choices help create the proper valve for the right application.
Quantum Series Orifice Gate is a Salina Vortex trademarked product.
Industries utilize different equipment terminologies. This type of valve may be used independently or incorporated with other dry material handling equipment within a material handling system.
This type of valve may also be known to those within the dry material handling industry as: bulk solid handling valve, control valve, drag conveyor gate valve, dry blender gate valve, dry material handling valve, dry material valve, dry mixer gate valve, dust collector gate valve, electric actuated valve, feeder gate valve, gate valve, gravity valve, hand slide gate, knife gate, knife gate valve, low profile slide gate, maintenance slide gate, material handling valve, pneumatic conveying valve, pneumatic operated valve, salina valve, scale valve, screw conveyor gate valve, slide gate, slide valve, solid feeder valve, variable position valve, volume metering valve, vortex, vortex valve.
