Valves – How Industrial Components Work
A control valve is a valve used to control the flow of fluid by varying the size of the flow passage according to directions received from a controller
This allows direct control of the flow rate and the consequent control of process quantities such as pressure, temperature and liquid level.
In automatic control terminology, a control valve is called a “final control element”.
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