Shutdown valve

A shut down valve (also referred to as SDV or Emergency shutdown valve, ESV, or ESDV) is an actuated valve installed in a pipeline. It isolates a process unit from an upstream or downstream (gaseous or liquid) inventory upon activation of the process unit alarm and shutdown system.

Metal seated ball valves are used as shut-down valves (SDV's). Use of metal seated ball valves leads to overall lower costs when taking into account lost production and inventory, and valve repair costs resulting from the use of soft seated ball valves which have a lower initial cost.

Straight-through flow valves, such as rotary-shaft ball valves, are typically high-recovery valves. High recovery valves are valves that lose little energy due to little flow turbulence. Flow paths are straight through. Rotary control valves, butterfly valve and ball valves are good example

See also

• Actuator
• Pipeline transport
• Piping
• Unit operation