Seal support system pressure tracking value
AssigneeAES Engineering Ltd.
InventorsChristopher John Carmody, Stephen Martin Shaw, Andrew John Stoney
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Abstract
A pressure regulation tracking valve for maintaining the pressure of a gas relative to that of a process fluid includes a device, responsive to change in the pressure of the process fluid, for changing the pressure of the gas by substantially the same amount. The valve further includes a device for accommodating a pressure transfer medium for transferring the pressure of the process fluid to the gas pressure changing device. As a result, contact between the process fluid and the gas pressure changing device is avoided.
Claims10
A pressure regulation tracking valve for maintaining the pressure of a gas relative to that of a process fluid, the pressure regulation tracking valve comprising a first diaphragm, responsive to a change in the pressure of the process fluid, for facilitating changing the pressure of the gas by substantially a same amount, means for accommodating a pressure transfer medium for transferring the pressure of the process fluid to said first diaphragm, means for connecting the pressure regulation tracking valve to a source of process fluid, means for supplying the gas to a location within said pressure regulation tracking valve, means for exiting gas from the location, a second diaphragm, responsive to an increase in process fluid pressure, to open said location to said means for supplying the gas, means, responsive to a decrease in process fluid pressure, to open said location to said means for exiting gas, means for connecting the pressure of said process fluid to respective first sides of said first diaphragm and said second diaphragm, said location being in fluid communication with respective second sides of said first diaphragm and said second diaphragm, the first diaphragm being arranged so that a reduction of process fluid pressure causes said first diaphragm to open said means for exiting gas and said second diaphragm being arranged so that an increase of fluid pressure causes said second diaphragm to open said location to said means for supplying the gas, a further location for containing the pressure transfer medium and extending between first side of said first diaphragm and said first side of said second diaphragm, and a third diaphragm having a first side in fluid communication with said further location and a second side in fluid communication with said means for connecting the pressure regulation tracking valve to a source of process fluid.
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