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  2. List of valves - Wikipedia

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    Slide gate valve: Ideal for handling dry bulk material in gravity flow, dilute phase, or dense phase pneumatic conveying applications. Similar to a sliding line blind valve, but the latter is for higher-pressure applications; Slide valve: used in early steam engines to control admission and emission of steam from the piston

  3. Gate valve - Wikipedia

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    An electric multi-turn actuator on a gate valve. A gate valve, also known as a sluice valve, is a valve that opens by lifting a barrier (gate) out of the path of the fluid. Gate valves require very little space along the pipe axis and hardly restrict the flow of fluid when the gate is fully opened.

  4. Gatehouse (waterworks) - Wikipedia

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    The Kinzua Dam in Pennsylvania, with outlet works releasing water. A gatehouse, gate house, outlet works or valve house for a dam is a structure housing sluice gates, valves, or pumps (in which case it is more accurately called a pumping station). Many gatehouses are strictly utilitarian, but especially in the nineteenth century, some were very ...

  5. Gate (hydraulic engineering) - Wikipedia

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    Within the gate valve, there is a gatelike disk that moves up and down perpendicular to the path of flow and seats against two seat faces to shut off flow. The velocity of the fluid against a partly opened disk may cause vibration and chattering which will ultimately lead to damage to the seating surfaces. This is a common way that gate valves ...

  6. Sluice - Wikipedia

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    1: Tube connecting the chamber to the high water side of the sluice 2: Gates to regulate the water level in the chamber. Only one gate may be opened at a time 3: Tube connecting the chamber to the low water side of the sluice 4: The chamber in which the water level can be controlled 5: Door with larger surface 6: Door with smaller surface.

  7. Sleeve valve (water) - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, unlike conventional control valves the sleeve valve increases flow incrementally, i.e. 10% increase in stroke leads to a 10% increase in flow. Sleeve valves are adaptive to system or consumer requirements. The sleeve valve is designed to meet the requirements and allow for a wide range of variability of function.

  8. Penstock - Wikipedia

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    A penstock is a sluice or gate or intake structure that controls water flow, or an enclosed pipe that delivers water to hydro turbines and sewerage systems. The term is of Scots origin, and was inherited from the earlier technology of mill ponds and watermills, with penstocks diverting pond waters to drive the mills.

  9. Backflow prevention device - Wikipedia

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    Backflow prevention device. The simplest, most reliable way to provide backflow prevention is to provide an air gap.An air gap is simply an open vertical space between any device that connects to a plumbing system (like a valve or faucet) and any place where contaminated water can collect or pool.