Southwest Valve

CAVITATION

Minimize Valve Cavitation by Proper System Design

Provided By Onyx Valve Company

Textbooks address cavitation in ideal fluids. Real world process fluids are seldom ideal and valves do not always conform to textbook characteristics.  This article was written to address cavitation issues related to pinch valve applications. Transposing these concepts to other valve types may be valid but might require considerable modification.

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