Abstract: An adjustable blowdown safety valve is provided for use on a pressure vessel or a flow line with a pressurized fluid therein. In the preferred embodiment, the adjustable blowdown safety valve comprises a body with a closed bonnet and a chamber therein and an inlet and an outlet; the inlet including a valve seat; a disk member with an attached stem member closable on the valve seat; a mechanism in the body biasing the disk member to rest on the valve seat; a guide member supported in the bonnet to guide and limit disk member movement; and a skirt member affixed to the body, which surrounds the disk member and defines a uniform flow area in combination with a blowdown ring. The presented adjustable blowdown safety valve has improvements, which remove detriments to disk member movement, resulting in an adjustable blowdown safety valve with predictable performance and improved reliability.

Abstract: Disclosed in one aspect is a valve comprising (a) a valve body having a poppet valve chamber with an axis running there through; (b) a seat having a seat sealing surface, and a outer-seat surface, the seat located axially within the poppet valve chamber; and (c) a poppet having a poppet sealing surface, the poppet being located axially within the poppet valve chamber; wherein a poppet-seat interface is created between at least a portion of the seat sealing surface and at least a portion of the poppet sealing surface, the poppet-seat interface being at an angle ? of from 20 to 90° to the axis. In one embodiment the seat is removable, allowing the geometry of at least the poppet head surface and/or the seat inside surface, which defines a fluid flow-path cross-section, to be tailored.

Abstract: A pressure relief valve monitoring device is provided. The monitoring device includes a sensor input module located proximate to a pressure relief valve, a microcontroller located within the sensor input module, and a real time clock/calendar also located within the sensor input module.

Abstract: A spring urged pressure relief valve, having a seat and a valve moved toward and away from the seat, is provided with a valve stem surrounding bushing forming a bushing chamber in combination with a disk on the valve stem. The bushing is provided with an adjustable control port to control fluid pressure assisting the spring closing the valve and controlling blowdown of the valve.

Abstract: A safety valve for relieving excessive pressure in a fluid system including a valve body having a central chamber, a discharge flow nozzle connected into the chamber having a valve seat on the end of the flow nozzle in the chamber, a valve disc movably mounted in the chamber for movement between a closed position on the nozzle seat and an open position spaced from the nozzle seat, a valve disc holder connected with the valve disc having a deflecting rim circumscribing the valve disc seat provided with an internal outwardly divergent annular deflecting surface, a blowdown ring mounted on the nozzle having an inner ring portion provided with an outer frustoconical deflecting surface substantially parallel with and spaced from the valve disc holder deflecting surface, the blowdown ring including an outer cylindrical rim provided with circumferentially spaced semi-elliptical discharge ports and an internal cylindrical surface substantially parallel with and spaced from the outer cylindrical surface of the valve d

Abstract: A safety and pressure relief valve has a seat at the end of a nozzle, a disk which is axially movable from a closed seat-engaging position to an open position, and a sleeve which is telescopically slidable relative to the disk to define variable orifices downstream of the seat and disk. When the valve initially opens, a flow force characteristic having relatively large slope begins the lift movement of the disk. Immediately after opening, an internal pressure related movement of the diskholder relative to the disk occurs to thereby changes the flow path. The valve performs further opening, discharging and closing sequences with the shifted flowpath. Before reseating, the diskholder regains its initial position relative to the disk. In one embodiment, the disk, nozzle and sleeve are mounted in a cartridge assembly which is detachably connected to a valve bowl or body.

Abstract: In a spring-loaded safety valve for gas and vapor, a valve disk which faces a valve seat and is movable to open or close the valve is provided with a deflecting collar which includes at an inner face thereof overlapping the valve seat two cone portions smoothly connected to each other by radii.

Abstract: An improved safety relief valve that includes an adjusting ring located on the valve seat member. The adjusting ring has one end located to provide an orifice which will control the area governing the rate of closure or "blow down" of the valve and a much larger peripheral surface which cooperates with a valve member carrier to provide an orifice that governs the force applied to the valve carrier and valve member to lift the valve which has been previously "cracked.

Abstract: A blow-down safety valve having means for directing the fluids exiting therefrom along a flow path which assists the valve member to open and seat quickly without excessive bleeding. The valve member includes a flat seating portion and an annular lip extending perpendicularly thereto to change the direction of the exiting fluid flow and direct it downwardly along the exterior wall of the valve inlet conduit, and a blow-down ring is provided to form an annular huddling chamber for receiving and collecting such downwardly directed fluid. The annular huddling chamber includes a bottom wall beneath the valve member annular lip and a side wall extending upwardly from the bottom wall toward and beyond the annular lip and in spaced relation thereto for directing fluid flow from the annular huddling chamber along a path substantially opposite to the direction of fluid flow into the huddling chamber.