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| Before project. |
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| Project begins. |
An Upper Midwest water treatment plant was experiencing high failure rates, long maintenance periods, and too many repair issues with their existing pneumatic scotch-yoke cylinder valve operators.
Upon investigation, the problem boiled down to how the scotch-yoke cylinder's linear movement is converted to rotational movement. To do so requires gearing, yokes and linkage which are wear points. In medium to high cycle rate applications these wear points soon become failure points.
Kinetrol rotary vane actuators utilize a single moving part - the one-piece vane and shaft. There are no gears, yokes, or linkages and 100% of the movement is transferred to the actuator shaft. The one piece vane and shaft eliminates these wear points, and therefore eliminates the resulting failure points.
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| Out with the old. |
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| In with the new. |
After a planning review meeting, this particular water treatment plant clearly saw the advantages of the Kinetrol design. The argument was so strong and the case so clear, they decided to replace all (60) scotch-yoke cylinder actuated valves with Kinetrol vane actuators in one fell swoop.
The new actuators have been operating for 6 months now without problem, cycling approximately 15 times per day.
Click on the images above to see a larger view. For more information, contact Kinetrol USA by visiting https://kinetrolusa.com or by calling 972-447-9443
