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Specialist Power Plant Valves

HORA is one of Germany's leading manufacturers of control valves with more than 35 years of experience. This independent company specialises in the design and manufacture of severe service valves in power plants, e.g turbine bypass stations, desuperheaters, pump protection valves and feedwater control valves. The company's minimum flow valves protect centrifugal pumps from potential damage caused by thermal and hydraulic overloads at low load operations. Hora offer a whole range of products for use in industry, power plants, as well as electric and pneumatic actuators. 

Steam Conditioning Valves -Steam conditioning engineering is of considerable importance in the steam generating and steam consuming industries, e.g. power plants, pulp and paper industries, seawater desalination plants, breweries, refineries etc.. As the name already implies, steam conditioning is the simultaneous change of both temperature and pressure - pressure reducing and de-superheating station (PRDS). A steam conditioning valve replaces the separate arrangement of a pressure reducing valve and a de-superheater. It requires less space and is more cost effective. 

De-Superheater Regulator -A de-superheater is a regulating device for control installations in many fields of industry, providing precise cooling.

Minimum Flow Non-Return Valves -These protect centrifugal pumps from possible damage caused by thermal and hydraulic overloads at low load operations by means of an automatic controlled by-pass flow which corresponds with the required minimum flow of the pump.

3.11 Forget Your Problems - This Power Technology Bulletin describes the advantages of the Hora Solution and how problems can be solved by these specialist Power Plant Valves.

HORA Turbine Bypass System - A turbine bypass system permits operation of the boiler independently from the steam turbine during start-up, commissioning, turbine trip (shut down) and load alternations. It gives a higher plant availability and operational flexibility over all different operating conditions. The start-up time under cold, warm and hot conditions is reduced. Keeping the thermal transient in the boiler to a minimum continuous flow through superheater and reheater (maintained tube cooling) must be provided and the pressure during the entire start-up has to be controlled. This article describes how the bypass valve achieves this. From www.flowandcontrol.com


3.11 Applications

Applications for Specialist Power Valves - This technical bulletin provides some information on the various applications.

Power Plant Valves for Steam Applications

Auxiliary steam control valve Backpressure turbine control valve Condenser protection valve Emergency desuperheater Heat exchanger termperature control
HP steam control valve HP -turbine bypass valve IP turbine bypass valve LP turbine bypass valve Process steam pressure and desuperheating valve
Process steam temperature control Reheater control valve Steady load desuperheater Steam turbine gland sealing temperature control Superheater control valve
 Turbine bleed valve Turbine shut-off valve Vent control valve    

Power Plant Valves for Water Applications

Combined feedwater control valve Condensate control valve Economizer three way control valve Heater drain control valve High pressure control valve
Low pressure control valve Main Feedwater control valve Process three way control valve Spray water control valve Start up and main feedwater control valve
Start up feedwater control valve Turbine drain valve      

Power Plant Valves for Oil Applications

Oil Control Valve

Power Plant Valves for Pump Protection Applications

Back Pressure regulator (BPR) Condensate pump protection valve (automatic) Condensate pump protection valve (on/off) Condensate pump protection valve (with actuator) Feedwater pump protection valve (with actuator)
Feedwater pump protection valve(on/off) HP Feedwater pump protection valve (automatic) HP Process pump protection valve (automatic) LP Feedwater pump protection valve (automatic) LP Process pump protection valve (automatic)
Process pump protection valve (on/off) Process pump protection valve (with actuator) Throttle