The butterfly valve; A valve consisting of a rotating circular plate or a pair of hinged semicircular plates attached to a transverse shaft and mounted inside a pipe to regulate or prevent flow in the pipe.
Butterfly valves are a family of quarter-turn rotary valves used to shut off flow in pipelines.
Usage Areas of Butterfly Valves
Butterfly valves are used in a wide variety of process environments and industries, particularly in water supply, collection and distribution, as well as in pumping stations and have a wide variety of use cases, particularly in flow isolation.
Some of the most important advantages of Butterfly valves over other valve families are their simple construction and compactness; this results in final products that are lighter, less costly and with a smaller installation footprint and faster operating speeds.