Regardless of the tank type or its exact purpose, ensuring a reliable water supply is crucial for many residential, industrial, or commercial applications. Yet the means to efficiently regulate levels within water tanks comes from a relatively simple device, the ball float valve. First developed in the late 1700s, ball float valves are widely used… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Float Valve
Stainless Steel Ball Valve Maintenance: A Comprehensive Guide
Regularly scheduled ball valve maintenance can help ensure that industrial process systems function smoothly with limited interruption or significant downtime. Proper maintenance can identify any potential issues with the ball valves before they become major problems and, in doing so, extend their service life as well. Ball valve maintenance can also help prevent equipment failures,… Read more »
The Limitless Uses of Stainless Steel Float Valves
Stainless steel float valves are remarkable yet simple mechanical devices that offer limitless uses for liquid-level control systems applications. Float valves are, in their basic form, liquid-level controllers. They measure, monitor, or activate a particular mechanical level control system to regulate fluid levels in various open and closed storage tanks, vessels, basins, condensate tanks, remote… Read more »
How to Select a Stainless Steel Float Valve for Your Application
Float valves are mechanisms or machines used for filling tanks, reservoirs, or other containers for liquids. Also referred to as a ballcock, as the hollow float is often shaped like a ball, it’s essentially the same mechanism as one would find in flushing toilets, and helps prevent overflow or backflow. Consisting of a valve connected… Read more »
What is a Floating Ball Valve?
As the most common valve type in the piping industry, floating ball valves play an important role in regulating flow through pipelines and other piping systems in the gas, oil, water and other industries. They create a bi-directional seal, and can even be customized for high pressure operations, though normally they are only used in… Read more »
A Deeper Look at Liquid Level Applications
In the past few weeks, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about some of the most common industries we serve. While we take great pride in the unique applications of these industries, it doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of all the ways in which our advanced liquid leveling devices can be used…. Read more »
The Role of the Float Valve in Petrochemical Drilling
Here at Arthur Harris, we truly enjoy the opportunity to share how our custom products benefit some of the largest industries. Today we’re discussing the petrochemical industry, where our stainless steel float valves are used to prevent unwanted flow of fluids up the drill string in natural gas and oil drilling operations. At Arthur Harris,… Read more »