Knife gate valve is also called knife gate valve, knife gate valve, slurry valve and mud valve. Its opening and closing parts are gate plates. The movement direction of the gate plate is perpendicular to the direction of the fluid. The medium is cut off by a knife edge gate which can cut fiber materials. The gate plate has two sealing surfaces. The two sealing surfaces of the most commonly used mode gate valve form wedges, and the wedge angle varies with the valve parameters, usually 5 °. The gate plate of the wedge knife gate valve can be made into a whole, It is called rigid ram; It can also be made into a ram that can produce slight deformation to improve its processability and compensate for the deviation of sealing surface angle during processing. This ram is called elastic ram. In fact, there is no chamber in the valve body. The gate rises and falls in the side guide groove, and is pressed on the valve seat by the lug at the bottom. If higher medium sealing is required, O-ring seal valve seat can be selected to achieve two-way sealing. The knife gate valve has small installation space, low working pressure, is not easy to accumulate debris, and the price is low.
When the knife gate valve is closed, the sealing surface can be sealed only by the medium pressure, that is, the sealing surface of the gate plate is pressed to the valve seat on the other side by the medium pressure to ensure the sealing of the sealing surface. This is self sealing. Most gate valves use forced sealing, that is, when the valve is closed, the gate plate must be forced to the valve seat by external force to ensure the sealing of the sealing surface. This type of valve shall be installed vertically in the pipeline.
Drive mode of knife gate valve: manual, sprocket, electric, pneumatic, hydraulic, bevel gear, electric hydraulic and pneumatic. Knife gate valve shape: rising stem and non rising stem. Knife gate valve material: cast iron, cast steel, carbon steel, stainless steel, fluorine lining, etc.
Knife gate valve seal: hard seal, soft seal, single-sided seal, double-sided seal, etc.
The ultra-thin knife gate valve, with its advantages of small volume, small flow resistance, light weight, easy installation and disassembly, completely solves the difficult problems of large flow resistance, large weight, difficult installation and large floor area of ordinary gate valve, flat gate valve, ball valve, globe valve, regulating valve, butterfly valve and other valves. After the appearance of knife gate valve, a large number of universal shut-off valves and regulating valves have been replaced. The largest use of knife gate valves in the world is in the United States and Japan.
