Pressure regulator provides flow control
A
Festo product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Oct 9, 2007
Festo's VPPM proportional pressure regulator provides an easy and precise means of varying the flow rate to pneumatic actuators.
Festo's VPPM proportional pressure regulator combines performance with control flexibility and a low cost.
The regulator provides design engineers with an easy and precise means of varying the flow rate to pneumatic actuators, facilitating accurate control of speed, force, pressure and torque.
Proportional pressure regulators are used extensively in process industries, controlling the contact force in polishing and friction welding, controlling web tension, providing active load cushioning and weight compensation, controlling the speed of pneumatic motors and regulating the applied torque of pneumatic wrenches.
The regulators are also now beginning to be used in the leisure and medical engineering industries.
There are two versions of VPPM regulator; one is equipped with an LED display, the other with a backlit LCD.
Both versions feature an eight-inch inch proportional pressure valve, offer a choice of G1/8 or PRS manifold connection and are available with a pressure range of 0-2, 0-6 or 0-10bar.
The 0-10bar model accommodates a flow rate of up to 1400 litres a minute.
By employing an innovative cascaded dual-stage regulator design - each with its own pressure sensor - the VPPM provides a high level of control, with coarse and fine adjustment facilities.
The use of two pressure sensors also helps eliminate drifting due to temperature fluctuations.
The regulators are controlled by industry-standard 0-10V DC or 4-20mA analogue signals and are exceptionally easy to install and commission, with diagnostic feedback provided via their front panel displays.
Both the LED and LCD versions of the regulator are equipped with 'up', 'down' and 'edit' front panel pushbuttons and offer three preset step response curves to facilitate fine tuning of the system without the need to set up complex PID loops.
The LCD version features a bright backlit alphanumeric display, together with an analogue bar-graph, and offers a number of extra control and monitoring functions.
Both the programmed setpoint and the actual pressure value can be monitored and users can choose to display pressure units in bar, MPa or PSI.
A control limitation function enables the actual operating pressure range of the regulator to be programmed.
This effectively increases control resolution by allowing the same full range of analogue control signals to control a limited, user-defined range of operating pressures.
Users can also define an offset value to increase accuracy over the required operating range.
Not what you're looking for? Search the site.
Contact Festo
Tel +44 1252 775000
Other Festo stories
-
Festo cylinders employ linear-motor technology
Festo has launched two series of high-performance electric cylinders employing the company's tubular linear-motor technology. -
Festo cushioning offered on DSNU actuator
Festo has developed a self-adjusting pneumatic cushioning system, available as a build-to-order option for the company's DSNU series round-cylinder pneumatic actuators. -
Festo unveils linear motor based actuators
Festo has developed a class of electric actuators based on very high-performance linear motors. -
Festo solutions aid Guernsey water treatment plant
Guernsey Water has adopted various valve solutions recommended by Festo at one of the island's water treatment plants to improve the supply of drinking water to about 24,000 households and businesses. -
Festo valve for pneumatically-operated automation
Festo has launched the MS6-SV electrically-operated pneumatic soft-start and exhaust valve that provides safer start-up and reliable venting of compressed air supplies in the event of an emergency.
Browse by category
-
Capital Equipment (3,488)
- Capital Equipment (1)
- Compressors and Air Treatment (531)
- Electrical hardware (131)
- Electronics Manufacturing, Tools, Instruments (192)
- Machinery and Production Equipment (1,123)
- Manufacturing Machinery and Plant Equipment (474)
- Production line blowers and fans (73)
- Robotics, Handling and Storage (963)
- Consultancy and Services (917)
-
Control and Instrumentation (5,105)
- Cabling, Conduit, Signal Conditioning (813)
- CNC and Motion Controllers (188)
- Control and Instrumentation (2)
- HMIs/Operator Interfaces (296)
- Logic Controllers, Timers and Relays (96)
- Mid-range and Large PLCs (203)
- Plant- and Machine-Wide Communications (1,197)
- Plantwide control (1,347)
- Power Supplies, Uninterruptible Power (573)
- Smaller-Sized PLCs (390)
-
Drives, Motors and Controls (3,421)
- Drives, Motors and Controls (2)
- Industrial Drives/Controls (1,289)
- Industrial Motors (501)
- Linear Drives and Motors (119)
- Precision Motors and Gears (425)
- Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls (1,083)
-
Electrical and Electronic Equipment Design (4,276)
- Batteries, chargers and circuit protection (575)
- Connectors, Terminals, Busbars, Slip Rings (709)
- Electrical and Electronic Components (647)
- Electrical and Electronic Equipment Design (3)
- Electrical and Electronic Subassemblies (374)
- Enclosures and Equipment Cooling Fans (719)
- Knobs, Handles and Enclosure Hardware (428)
- PCs and Embedded Systems (821)
-
Engineering Design Software (6,319)
- 2D CAD software (202)
- 3D CAD software (1,177)
- CAM, CNC, production management software (576)
- Data, document management software (320)
- Electrical design software (165)
- Engineering Design Software (17)
- FEA and structural analysis software (376)
- File conversion software, data capture (358)
- Fluid, thermal, noise, vibration software (338)
- Materials design and moulding design software (152)
- Maths, charting, statistics, QA software (324)
- PLM and collaboration software (658)
- Process, instrumentation, automation software (269)
- Publishing and documentation software (234)
- Rendering, visualisation, styling software (206)
- Simulation, modelling, validation software (947)
-
Engineering Industry News, Resources (6,198)
- Electronic Resources for Engineers (278)
- Engineering Business News, Views (388)
- Engineering Conferences (435)
- Engineering Education, Resources, Standards (849)
- Engineering Exhibitions, Events (575)
- Engineering Guides, Newsletters (365)
- Engineering Industry Developments, Awards (636)
- Engineering Industry News, Resources (4)
- Engineering Industry Reports, Surveys (597)
- Engineering Recruitment, Employment (219)
- Engineering Seminars (414)
- Engineering Training Courses (456)
- Health and Safety Consultancy, Software (180)
- Health and Safety Events, Training, News (284)
- Health and Safety Legislation (403)
- Health and Safety Strategy, Risk Assessment (115)
- Machine Building (4,608)
-
Materials and Processing (3,020)
- Materials and components (2,258)
- Materials and Processing (5)
- Materials processing and testing (291)
- Rapid Prototyping (466)
-
Monitoring, Measurement and Quality (5,620)
- Data Acquisition Hardware and PC I/O Boards (485)
- Data acquisition Software and Communications (505)
- Data loggers (425)
- Electrical and Electronic Testing, PAT Equipment (641)
- Form/co-ordinate, optical, vision instruments (757)
- Gauges, Indicators and Instruments (448)
- Materials testing equipment (429)
- Monitoring, Measurement and Quality (1)
- Telecomms/network test equipment, software etc (158)
- Testing and Calibration Services and Information (518)
- Testing, analysing and monitoring equipment (1,253)
-
Powertrain Design (3,691)
- Bearings (973)
- Chains and belts (333)
- Gears, brakes, couplings and engines (1,469)
- Hydraulic Components (473)
- Lubricants (439)
- Powertrain Design (3)
-
Sensors (7,237)
- Accelerometers and Vibration Sensors (446)
- Barcode Sensors (103)
- Flowmeters and Flow Sensors (637)
- Gas, Chemical, Radiation, Magnetic Sensors (289)
- Humidity and Environmental Sensors (157)
- Level Sensors and Leak Detectors (534)
- Linear Position Sensors (412)
- Loadcells, Force Sensors, Torque Sensors (724)
- Pressure sensors (634)
- Proximity Sensors (710)
- Rotary Position, Tilt and Angular Sensors (559)
- Sensors (10)
- Temperature sensors (620)
- Vision and Colour Sensors (1,402)
- Small Mechanical Components, Joining, Tools (2,021)
- Valves, Pumps, Process Hardware (3,708)
