Clean Compressed Air Valve Solutions:

Best Practices for Pneumatic Control Valves

By Andre Scholtz, Technical Director at Solarcraft, Inc

If you are the fortunate individual at your office who is tasked with scrutinizing federal regulations for compliance and scratching your head looking for ideas on what to do about the restrictions on bleed rates for gas-driven actuators, this short article may help point you in the right direction.

Apart from regulation, it is no secret that wet and sour gas will gum up the moving bits of pneumatic actuators in short order, which is often the bigger incentive to make the change to instrument air pneumatic valves or electric actuators.

Let's consider the benefits of installing an instrument air system first.

- You can retain the pneumatic actuator that is installed on the line with very little modification. The work is not on the actuator, but rather on establishing the air supply.