The main application scenarios of butterfly valves

secureluokai April 16, 2025

The butterfly valve is a type of valve that controls the opening, closing, or regulation of the medium flow by rotating a disc-shaped butterfly plate. This unique design enables the butterfly valve to primarily serve the functions of cutting off and throttling in the pipeline system.
Butterfly valves have an extremely wide range of applications, covering numerous industrial fields:
Chemical industry field: As a commonly used regulating valve, butterfly valves are widely applied in chemical reaction equipment and pipelines. Due to their excellent sealing performance, they can effectively prevent the leakage of chemical substances, ensuring production safety and environmental safety.
Food and pharmaceutical industry field: In these fields with extremely high requirements for hygiene and safety, butterfly valves are easy to operate and can respond quickly to control needs. Moreover, their structural design is conducive to cleaning and maintenance, ensuring that the production process of food and pharmaceuticals is free from contamination and meets strict hygiene standards.
Sewage treatment field: Butterfly valves play a crucial role in sewage treatment systems. They can prevent the leakage of sewage and effectively block the emission of odors, ensuring the smooth progress of the sewage treatment process and improving the sewage treatment effect.
With the continuous advancement of technology and in-depth research on sealing materials, the sealing performance and pressure-bearing capacity of butterfly valves are constantly improving. Nowadays, butterfly valves are becoming more and more proficient in applications under extreme working conditions such as deep-sea oil extraction and aerospace thermal control systems. In addition, with the popularization of Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things technologies, intelligent butterfly valves, which can achieve functions such as remote monitoring and automatic adjustment, are witnessing a continuous increase in market demand.
As an indispensable device in industrial applications, butterfly valves will inevitably develop towards the directions of high technology, high parameters, strong corrosion resistance, and long service life in the future, in order to meet the supporting requirements of various industrial installations and provide a solid guarantee for the efficient and stable operation of industrial production.
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