Experience in Motion Crude Oil and Refined Products Processing High Performance Ball Valves for Severe Service Applications
Experience in Motion
Crude Oil and Refined Products Processing
High Performance Ball Valves for Severe Service Applications
Application Know-How
For more than 60 years Argus has delivered highperformance Ball Valves for the most demanding,severe service applications in the upstream anddownstream oil processing, onshore, offshore, aswell as throughout the refining process. Ourvalves resolve the most critical problems in appli-cations with high cycling, high pressure, high temperature, corrosive, erosive, and abrasivemedia.
Argus valves provide an extended lifetime, improving the overall operational safety and thelife cycle cost.
All our valves are guaranteed bubble-tight zeroleakage, exceeding Class VI shut-off, tested ac-cording to ISO 5208.
Fire-safe designed, approved, certified and testedaccording to: API-6D, ISO 10497, API 607 FifthEdition, API RP 6F, Exxon Partial Burn, BS 5146,BS 6755 Part 2 and OCMA FSV.1
Certified functional safety suitable for SIL 2higher,andNACEMR-01-75.
Argus valves meet the requirements of ISO 14313for pipelines.
Fugitive emissions certified to ISO 15848.
Quality, safety, availability, local service supportand in-depth technical know-how are combined ina world class product offering. Solutions for todayshould also spell secure investment for times tocome. Each user-specific development is basedon experience and a vision for the future.
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Argus ball valves are recognized all over the oil processing industry for their outstanding durabilityand reliability. Argus is the brand to trust and relyon for the most severe service applications.
The Argus design provides important advantages,such as reduced torque up to half less, comparedto other ball valves on the market, which makesthe required actuator size smaller, and reducesweightachieving significant savings in the overallinvestment. At the same time, improving the lifetime of the system.
Since 1953 when Argus introduced the first ballvalve in Europe, it has been at the vanguard ofthe ball valve development for severe service applications.
This postition of leadership and expertise hasbeen constantly reinforced, introducing to themarket exceptional full metal-to-metal ball valvesexceeding bubble tight, class VI shut-off.
Full metal sealing systems made of different ma-terials and alloys are extremely durable and keeptheir sealing capabilities much longer, as compared to other sealing systems.
The ARGUS design and manufacturing technology, based on a vast experience designingand constructing exceptional metal seated ballvalves, assures a long life of ball and seats, evenunder extreme conditions, keeping the ARGUStraditional feature of zero leakage, bubble tight asa standard without maintenance requirements foroutstanding periods.
Expertise in Ball Valves for the Oil Processing
Unique engineering design, outstanding material expertise and a solid application know-how arecore strengths of Argus included in every valve we supply.
Product and industry specialists develop effective solutions for the most demanding, severe serviceand critical applications under highly challengingworking environments.
Argus has the design and manufacturing capability to handle any severe service, critical application requirement anywhere in the world,from custom-engineered solutions to large projects, for sizes from ½” thru 40”, soft-seatedand metal-seated, floating design and trunniondesign ball valves.
Argus valves can be found in many processeswithin the petroleum production on-shore and off-shore, including oil sands bitumen and heavyoil processing, upgrading process, refining,pipeline, storage and distribution.
Argus valves are corrosion and erosion resistant.They are designed and constructed to handle andwithstand the most critical and severe service applications.
Argus is part of the Flowserve Corporation, the foremost valve and controls manufacturing organization in the world. Flowserve offers abroad selection of flow control products, which in-clude many of the most known and trusted brandsin the marketplace.
Strong recognition results primarily from the extraordinary success of Flowserve and Argusvalves and automation products with thousandsof applications in all major industries.
Engineering design and material knowledge
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Severe Service applications upstream
High performance, safety, durability andlow maintenance are key requirementsfor ball valves in the petroleum production onshore and offshore.
Argus ball valves provide excellent results in severe service, critical applica-tions such as:
• Sour crude• Crude with solids (sand)• Abrasive slurry• Secondary recovery• Tailings• Sour gas lines• Fuel gas to compressors• Emergency shut-off with extremely
short response time• Hydrogen transportation • Pipelines
Argus valves are Class VI Shut-Off as a standard. Zeroleakage, bubble tight.
95% of the components aremade in-house, including thehard surface coating of balland seats. Full port as a standard.Reduced port optional. All bodies are forged as a standard. No castings.No porosity problems.Anti-blowout stem.Increased safety.
Computer controlled mechanically lapped ball andseats.2 - 3 piece split body design.Anti-static device.Bi-directional flow.Fire-safe tested to ISO 10497,API 607 5th edition.
Fugitive emissions less than1 ppm certified to ISO 15848.API approvals.
SIL Rating
Argus valves are designed and built to resolve themost demanding and critical process applications downstream.
Our valves meet specific requirements in applica-tions such as:
• Isolation valves for cokers and hydraulic decoking systems
• UOP process• Feed isolation valves• Regeneration lock-hopper valves• Fluidized catalyst cracking units• Catalyst handling• Catalyst addition and withdrawal• Filter and pump isolation• Hydrogen lines• Slurry• Heavy oil and LC Fining• Continuous catalyst recovery• Visbreakers• VTB vacuum tower bottom• Emergency shut-off with extemely short
response time
Severe Service applications downstream
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Arguloy thickness> 500µ after lapping
Arguloy Metallic Hard-coating on ball and seats
Argus proprietary flame & fuse Arguloy® coatings achieve 63-65° HRC for the ball andseats.Arguloy is not an overlay coating but a coatingbonded metallically to the base material of the balland the seats.Arguloy is flame-sprayed and thermal after-treated.By choosing between different Arguloy coatings,the hard coating can be precisely matched to thegiven application.Argus provides metallic coating materials basedon different alloys:
CARBIDE Chrome carbide basedARGULOY 1 Chrome nickel basedARGULOY 2 Tungsten carbide basedARGULOY 3 Cobalt carbide based
Hard coating
Diffusion zone
Base material
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EPA approved stem seal
Certified leakage: < 1 ppm
Integrated Stuffing Box with additional packing on top
Anti-blowout design
Complies with ISO 1548-1
EPA Fugitive Emissions
requirements
Argus ball valves include many innovative design features meeting the highest standards in valve technology requirements including API-6D andANSI 16.34.
Bodies are all forged and totally machined inside. Longlife double stem seal. Stem is supported by bearings
to ensure seals are free from operating loads.
The unique Argus ball valve design
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Argus Trunnion design features
Trunnion bearings and sealssupport all lateral loads
Inlet Seal
Seats do not support theweight of the ball and act only
as a seal
Annular springs,live-load for the seats
Trunnion blocks support the weightof the ball and keep it in position
Purge
Secondary GraphoilSeal
Primary sealaccording to EPA
PTFE barrierprimary double seal,Secondary Graphoilseal
Additional PTFE barrierto avoid dust penetratinginto the trunion cavity.
Forged body
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Argus trunnion ball valves are designed for the highest demands.
2 - 3 piece split body with superfine finished trunnion mounted ball,spring-loaded ball seats, cavity relief and anti-static device.
Long life double stem seal system and stem supported by bearingsto ensure seals are free from operating load.
Firesafe to API 607 5th edition, and BS 6755
Fugitive emissions < 1 PPM, environmental protection according toISO 15848
Trunnion blocks support the weight of the ball and lock the ball intothe body.
Trunnion bearings absorb side load.
Seats act only as a seal
Live loaded (spring) seats.
Longer coating life for the ball and seats is achieved due to low fric-tion of the trunnion design.
Valve requires smaller actuator due to low torque needed to stroke.
Stem acts only as a drive mechanism.
Bi-directional.
Bubble-tight sealing.
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Metal seated, trunnion3-way ball valve
Service: Polymer, steamand Slurry
Sizes: 1/2” - 10” Pressure class: 150 - 600#
Pattern angle: 90º or 120º
Metal seated, trunnionvalve for high cycling
Service: Polymer, gas,cokers, hydraulic decokingsystems, coker pipelines
Sizes: 1/2” - 16”
Abrasive solids
High cycling
High temperature
Pressure class 600 - 2500#
Trunnion design
upstream sealing
No downstream seat
Smooth transition
relief of media out of
body cavity
Superfine machined
surface to avoid
material build-up
Ball Valves designed for the Oil Processing
Special reactor valve for petrochemical and chemicalprocesses
Scallop seat pocketprevents build-up of
solids behind the seat
Argus offers a full range of manually op-
erated or completly automated ball valves
including different brands of electrical,
pneumatic and hydraulic actuators,
positioners etc. according to customers
preference.
An extensive range of corrosion,
e r o s i o n , a b r a s i o n - r e s i s t a n t
materials,both metallic and non-metallic
along with the materials application
expertise provide the safest, most effec-
tive solution for the critical, very difficult
severe service applications found up
stream and downstream, onshore and
offshore.
Metallic materials include an extensive va-
riety of steel and stainless steel grades,
monel, nickel, as well as exotic materials
and alloys.
Non-metallic materials include PTFE, PFA,
Lyton, PEEK, graphite, ceramics, and
many more.
Life Cycle Cost – Overall cost of ownership
While exact values may differ, 80% of the total lifecycle cost (LCC) of a critical valve with high cycling is accumulated after the equipment is purchased and installed.
A typical LCC calculation accounts for the cycle cost including:
• Initial purchase and installation
• Durability
• Maintenance and Repair
• Operational safety
• Production losses due to operational failure
• Environmental compliance
• Removal
• Replacement cost
Argus ball valves provide an excellent LCC,because of thier outstanding durability, less maintenance, increased operational safety and reduced production loses due to operational fail-ure and hazardous risks. Thus bringing benefit to
the customer.
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56,000 sq/m (14 acre) manufacturing facilities in Ettlingen, Germany
Experience in Motion
Bulletin Argus-Crude Oil Processing, July 2009. Literature is supplied for informative purposes only.
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