TPi September 2014

products & developments

Trunnion ball valves Val-Matic’s QuadroSphere ® trunnion ball valve is designed to handle the demands of the power industry in areas such as fly ash water/slurry, river water, pump isolation, crude oil, low steam pressure, and natural gas lines.

design suitable for severe applications typical of the power industry.

The QuadroSphere is also fire safe for flammable materials such as natural gas, oxygen and other gaseous compounds. Val-Matic’s headquarters is located in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA, with additional manufacturing facilities located in Addison, Illinois, totalling over 177,000ft 2 of manufacturing and office space.

The multiple flow paths through the valve and the contoured recessed surfaces of the ball provide self-flushing to prevent clogging by avoiding high scale and solids build up. This function is desirable where there is a tendency for clogging and particles solidifying causing the valves to fail. The QuadroSphere trunnion mounted ball valve has an abrasion-resistant ball

Val-Matic Valve & Mfg Corp – USA valves@valmatic.com www.valmatic.com

The QuadroSphere trunnion ball valve from Val-Matic

NDT systems for tube and pipe Magnetic Analysis Corp (MAC) will be featuring non-destructive test equipment and systems for tube and pipe at Tube India inMumbai inOctober. The company will be exhibiting the MultiMac ® eddy current instrumentation and rotary and a Varimac ® eddy current comparator, at the stand of its representative in India, Inmar Corporation. recently provided an Echomac ultrasonic inspection system to Ratnamani Metals & Tubes Ltd, a stainless tube producer in India.

Echomac ultrasonic instrumentation and rotaries provide detection of ID/OD and internal defects in welded or seamless precision drawn tubes made of chrome steel, austenite, titanium alloys, copper and other metals. Ultrasonic technology is mandated by most heat exchanger manufacturers to ensure that only the highest quality tubes will find service in any high- pressure ASME type applications. MAC has also supplied many OCTG producers with Rotoflux flux leakage test systems to comply with critical API 5CT and 5L, and ASTM E570 requirements for API inspection of OCTG products. The Rotoflux can detect defects as small as 5 per cent of the wall on the OD and ID in tube and pipe from 38 to 500mm in diameter. A complete range of standard and custom design handling components and systems are also available from MAC to precisely hold and position test instruments, test coils, rotaries and drives. Software controls allow complete command of test benches, and reporting of test results from multiple instruments.

MAC eddy current test systems are used to reliably detect transverse, short or longitudinal seam type surface defects in magnetic and non-magnetic tubing used in many applications. The Varimac eddy current comparator provides rapid 100 per cent inspection of fasteners and metal parts for heat treatment, hardness, alloy and some dimensions.

Complete information on all of MAC’s test systems, including the Echomac ® Ultrasonic and Rotoflux ® flux leakage test systems will be available. MAC

The MultiMac SM will be on display at the Inmar Corp stand

Magnetic Analysis Corp – USA info@mac-ndt.com www.mac-ndt.com

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Tube Products International September 2014

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