Improving Performance and Reliability using CMC Electric Linear Actuators for Gate Valves
By Brian McMorris Recently a Futura-Automation customer expressed a problem with Vortex gate valves on an outdoor metal chip collection system getting stuck. The gate valves are mounted on a vacuum system. The factory o perates an “air-lock” that maintains vacuum when the collection system is emptied into a bin. Normally, the plant-side valve is