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News Release from: Rotork Controls
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 14 March 2002
Actuators get to work on 50in valves
Rotork IQ range intelligent electric actuators have been selected to operate "the largest ball valves every supplied into Asia Pacific".
Rotork IQ range intelligent electric actuators have been selected to operate "the largest ball valves every supplied into Asia Pacific", according to Paul Moir of the Asean Council on Petroleum (ASCOPE) in Kuala Lumpur A total of six of these 50in Class 150 valves have been supplied to Interbeton-McConnell Dowell JV for the VLCC Jetty project in Singapore
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 17 Mar 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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They are operated by a combination of Rotork IQ actuators and Exeeco IW10R worm/spur gearboxes, providing opening and closing times of 56 seconds.
In addition, six IQ actuators and Exeeco MTW gearboxes were selected to operate 6in three-way ball valves.
On the same project, which involves the construction of a complete new offloading jetty at the Exxon Singapore Refinery, twenty-four Rotork IQ actuators have also been supplied to operate through-conduit 16 inch, Class 150 gate valves.
Eight of these actuators have been supplied with Rotork's factory-fitted K-Mass fireproofing, which enables them to operate in emergency conditions at temperatures in excess of 1000C.
A further eight IQ actuators with K-Mass were supplied for the operation of 2 and 8in gate valves on the new plant.
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