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Hvac Design Sourcebook 2nd Edition 72

Quarter-turn valves, including butterfly and ball valves, require a quarter rotation to switch between fully open and closed positions. Butterfly valves feature a solid disc that indicates the valve's position and provides bubble-tight shutoff. They come in lug-style and wafer-style bodies, with lug-style suitable for dead-end service in HVAC systems.

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Hvac Design Sourcebook 2nd Edition 72

Quarter-turn valves, including butterfly and ball valves, require a quarter rotation to switch between fully open and closed positions. Butterfly valves feature a solid disc that indicates the valve's position and provides bubble-tight shutoff. They come in lug-style and wafer-style bodies, with lug-style suitable for dead-end service in HVAC systems.

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Pip in1, Vahes, and Specialties 51

Fiou• 3·12 Photograph of an angle globe valve with threaded ends. (Phato courtesy of NIBCO tNC.)

Quarter-Tum Valwu
Quarter-tum valves require only a quarter rotation of the valve stem to change the posi-
tion the valve from fully opened to fully closed and vice versa. Two types of quarter-tum
valves commonly used in HVAC piping 9}'Btems are butterfly valves and ball valves.
Butterfly va1ve
Detctfptlon Butterfly valves consist of a solid disc mounted within the valve body,
which is connected to the internal end of the valve stem. A hand-lever actuator is con-
nected to the external end of the valve stem for manual operation. When the valve stem
is turned such that the disc is parallel to the fluid flow, the valve is in the open position.
When the valve stem is turned such that the disc is perpendicular to the fluid flow, the
valve is in the closed position. The disc closes against a resilient seat mounted within
the valve body, providing bubble-tight shuto.ff. Because the hand-lever actuator is
installed on the valve stem parallel to the disc, the actuator provides an indication of the
valve's position. Butterfly valves have a straight-through body configuration and are
suitable for throttling and bubble-tight shuto.ff.
Butterfly valves are available in lug-style (or singl~flange) (Figs. ~13 and ~14) and
wa.fel"-Style bodies. Lug-style bodies have tapped lugs that align with the bolt holes in
ASTM pipe flanges, allowing them to be bolted to a single flange on one side of the
valve. This capability makes lug-style butterfly valves suitable for dead-end service; that
is, they can be mounmd on a flange at the open end of a pipe and provide bubble-tight
shutoff. For this reason, lug-style butterfly valves can be used as shutoff valves for HVAC
equipment, enabling the removal of the equipment and piping up to the valve.

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