The article describes this valve's succes in 179 installations….A US company saw an opportunity to improve this design for the Mining market and invented the world’s first push-through elastomer sleeved knife gate sealing elastomeric sleeves as it moved from Open to Closed.The severe nature of the world of hydrometallurgy demands specialized designs that can withstand the corrosiveness and solids build-ups that occur; all in an environmentally benign fashion; and that can only happen when the correct valve technology is provided. The ingenuity of the design was that the sleeves provided a completely isolated body and a bore lining that closely matched most of the pipe it was installed in. 18 month operation hiatus, the vast majority of those 179 guided shear gates are still operating as they did upon commissioning with zero or minimal maintenance. Click Here For Complete Article Text
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