Tag: valve packing

Conveying a substance from one place to another along a tube would be a simple affair if one never needed to control its flow.

With valves accounting for up to 70% of fugitive emissions (FE) from plants and refineries, tackling leakage is among the biggest obstacles to industry in achieving net zero by 2050.

Valves are an important operational component in most, if not all, industrial processing systems. By regulating the flow of the process media, they contribute to ensuring the safety, reliability, and efficiency of the overall system processes. Depending on the type and scale of a particular plant, the number of valves can vary from a few hundred into the thousands.

Fugutive emissions can be reduced to less than 10 ppm with Reduced Emissions Kalrez (REK) packing from Research Control Valves. This optional packing system can be installed new, retrofitted, or customized.