New SKW valve developed by Flowrox

Flowrox is launching a new slurry knife gate product designed to enhance current pipeline equipment and processes using enhanced technology for fluid control.

The new SKW valve – Slurry Knife Wafer – from Flowrox was developed for use in the mining, minerals and metallurgy, oil and gas, power and waste water industries, where abrasive or corrosive slurries, powders or coarse substances are processed.

Based on three decades of experience and a strong understanding of industrial fluid control, Flowrox has engineered its SKW valve at full-bore with no flow restrictions, allowing processes with abrasive or corrosive fluids – such as lime slurry or mineral slurries – to move without compromising performance.

The main benefit to a full-bore design is that the SKW valve itself becomes an integral part of the pipe and allows it to process the same fluids in the harshest of conditions.

In addition to its strength and resistance to aggressive slurries, the new SKW valve is designed as a full port fluid control device that allows a more efficient process, requiring less pumping energy to operate.

The SKW valve incorporates smart manufacturing techniques and incorporates a cast single-piece body, which eliminates any potential leak paths from the body and offers a versatile tower construction that will accept manual, electric, hydraulic or pneumatic forms of actuation.

Flowrox is actively marketing the SKW valve to all major mining and power plants in North America that manage fluid control processes and require precision and performance directly related to revenue generation.

Incorporating SKW valves offers the advantage of reducing the lowest total cost of ownership – a financial measurement that is often a deciding factor in the selection of these industrial products.

“Flowrox’s next-generation SKW valve offers great in-field flexibility since heavy-duty rubber sleeves can be easily be replaced in the field without any special tools and is fully bi-directional,” said Todd Loudin, President/CEO at Flowrox Inc.

The company’s SKW valve offers proprietary and innovative sleeves with load distribution rings incorporated within, along with a very robust valve structure.

An added benefit is that when in the ‘open position’, the SKW valve’s rubber ring sleeves are the only parts in contact with the medium as a way to reduce any potential corrosion or deterioration due to wear-and-tear, even when processing the most abrasive slurries.

Adapted from press release by Louise Fordham

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