Our customer is a Nickel refinery.

The medium is water and chloride based slurry containing nickel and copper. Their ceramic ball valve has ceramic ball but body lined with PTFE not ceramic. The abrasive slurry wear down the PTFE lining and the ceramic ball is intact. So they need the full ceramic lined ball valves to solve their problem.

According to customer’s working condition, we supplied the ceramic ball valves as follows:

Body: A105

V-port Ball: Ceramic ZrO2

Seat: Ceramic 99% Al2O3

Lining: Ceramic 99% Al2O3

Stem: Titanium Gr2

Our customer has stock of pneumatic actuator, so we supplied our ceramic ball valves with ISO 5211 pad and adaptor for connection with their pneumatic actuator.

YFL ceramic ball valves are designed especially for corrosive and abrasive service in applications as follows:

Coal fired power plants:

Lime slurry and gypsum slurry process water with high chlorides and solids content in flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) system;

Steel works: 

Blast furnace coal powder injection;

Electric arc furnace carbon powder injection;

Raw iron desulphurisation with additives of CaC, MgO2 etc;

Mining: 

Alumina powder;

Splitting of ore with H2SO4;

Copper residues in suspension;

Concentrated copper slurry;

Pneumatic conveying of copper powder;

Similar applications for zinc, nickel and other noble metals;

Polysililcon:

Si3Cl4, TCS, raw silicon;

Splitting of silicon with acids;

Conveying of silicon powder;

Pneumatic conveying: 

All types of dry bulk material (quartz, ash, fiber, glass, cement, PP pellet etc.);

Paper & Pulp/dye works: 

Kaoflin, bentonite, fillers, dyes, bleachers, talcum, pulp residue, lime suspension, MgO2, green liquor, wood particles in suspension;

Fertilizer: 

Ammonium nitrate slurry;

Phosphoric acid with solids;

Washing water with hydrofluoric acid content;

Waste incineration plants: 

HCl – prewashers;

Limestone suspension for pH regeneration;

Corrosive washing water (HF loaded);

Petrochemistry:

Aluminium oxide powder as the catalyst;

Pigments: TiO2 suspension, Ti3Cl4, H2SO4+TiO2, FeCl2 etc.