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Tired of Butterfly valves failing?
Find out why Av-Tek will outlast the rest!
We give you what the others can’t or, to be honest, won’t!
With Av-Tek ®, you get a double offset, high-performance butterfly valve, that far exceeds the standard (commodity type) AWWA valves!
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Most water operators and engineers in the USA have never used or seen a double-offset or double eccentric butterfly valve.
As Av-Tek sales representatives travel the country we find that approximately less than 10% of wastewater or water departments are using this “new” technology in the USA.
The reason we say it is a “new” technology is that it is still not used in about 90% of the water and wastewater markets in the USA.
The double offset design is now gaining significant traction in the USA market. There are a few main questions people want to know about the double eccentric butterfly valves and a few main reasons why they change from a commodity type zero or single offset butterfly valve.
Scheduled and emergency maintenance can be a major cost and problem when an isolation butterfly valve won’t operate. Most failures on butterfly valves can be prevented if the valve is engineered the right way to begin with.
…therefore you eliminate the seat set or deformation due to being in the open position.
Never Again Worry About Exercising your Water Valves. A series of 8 o’ring seals, designed to create a dry shaft. When raw iron is mixed with water, corrosion begins while the dry shaft in the DEX double offset butterfly valve prevents this corrosion without the need to exercise the valve.
Av-Tek offers a unique warranty on all double offset butterfly valves: 3-year, leak-free warranty.
Standard commodity type valves that meet the minimum requirements of AWWA C504 are zero or single offset butterfly valves. The way these valves are designed creates a leak path when the valve is exercised or when the disc stays in the open position.
This is due to the disc and the body compressing the resilient seat and creating a seat set or deformation of the seat. That seat set then becomes a leak path. A true double offset does not touch or rub the resilient seat until the last 10% of closing, therefore the seat does not get a seat set or deform due to being in the open position.
This is because a series of 8 O-Ring seals are used to create a dry shaft, unlike your standard waterworks butterfly valves, which use packing glands that require them to be wetted in an area of the valve that is uncoated.
When raw iron is mixed with water corrosion begins. This is why there is a requirement for the standard type valves to be exercised regularly, while the dry shaft in a double offset butterfly valve prevents this corrosion without the need to exercise the valve.
What many are finding to be true and you will too, is that by using higher quality valves, you get a longer life out of the valve, less maintenance, and drip tight shut off.
Feel free to reach out to us for all your questions you might have in regards to butterfly valves in your system.
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