Good Day @LL,
i have a question regarding the ball valve sealing seat area !?
if we have a Ball Valve, which seat side will you depend on ? will it be Up stream the pressure or down stream the pressure ?
as we know there are two seats on ball valves and both are with springs.
here some of experinced guys 25+ years they say the down stream pressure seat. their explanition was because of pressure of the flow on the ball will load the ball against the down stream seat.
others say the up stream seat is the primery seal which will seal the cavite of the valve depending of the deferent on pressure acting on the seat faces ( the flow will push the seat aginst the ball) and the ball aginst the downstream seat will be secondery seal. and we can not allow the upstream passing because the cavity will be pressurized and will push aginst the downstream seat.
Now if we think about both are right in one way or other.
the thing is which way should we go .
to me both make since, but am more with the downstream seat. because the pressure acting on the ball surface is much much higher than the pressure on the seats, so the ball will be pushed to seal on the downstream.
please give me your ideas and experince :)
Matar