Category: 3-way ball valves
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Valve Automation for Water and Wastewater Infrastructure
Valve automation for water and wastewater infrastructure is entering its busiest stretch in decades. The EPA’s most recent needs assessments put the price tag at $625 billion for drinking water infrastructure and $630 billion for wastewater and stormwater systems, both over the next 20 years (EPA, 7th Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment; EPA,…
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Actuated 3-Way Ball Valve Selection: L-Port vs. T-Port for Diverting, Mixing, and Bypass Service
Choosing an L-port or T-port 3-way ball valve looks like a small configuration decision on a spec sheet. In practice, it determines whether the valve does what the process actually needs it to do. Get it wrong, and the mistake usually doesn’t surface until commissioning — after the valve is already piped, welded, flanged, or…