Metso introduces control valve innovations
Metso?s unique offering of products and solutions to improve safety and productivity in the oil & gas industry is now complemented with a range of control valve innovations. Noise and vibration generated by control valves constitute a typical environmental issue in process plants and their surroundings. Further improvements to Metso?s famous Q-Trim? noise reduction technology have resulted in advanced noise and vibration control in challenging applications. These solutions help process industry customers improve personnel and plant safety while simultaneously increasing efficiency and reliability.

New Metso Valve Manager? represents the state-of-the art, third generation valve diagnostics which is capable of processing the collected diagnostics information to visualise the condition of the valve in question with five different indices: Control performance, Valve condition, Actuator condition, Positioner condition and Environmental conditions. Metso?s new Valve Manager is available for the Neles ND9000 series intelligent valve controllers.