Valves in a sentence

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Examples of normally-open valves are purge-gas supply valves or emergency-relief valves.

Piston valves require more maintenance than rotary valves — they require regular oiling to keep them freely operating, while rotary valves are sealed and seldom require oiling.

Some valves have neither handle nor actuator because they automatically control themselves from inside; for example, check valves and relief valves may have neither.

When valves were invented, generally, the French made smaller horns with piston valves and the Germans made larger horns with rotary valves.

Interventional pulmonologists who place the valves urge general pulmonologists to refer patients for the valves sooner rather than later, and whenever the procedure is a realistic possibility.

This included larger combustion chambers, expanded inlet ports with respective valves, new springs for inlet and exhaust valves, redesigned inlet and outlet camshafts as well as the tuning of the electronic engine management by AMG and Bosch.

Meadows estimated a catastrophic rupture of both lines and a failure of the remote shutoff valves at either side of the crossing could cause more than 2.4 million gallons of oil to flow into the lake before the company could manually close the valves.

Turn off valves on the system, and leave valves closed until the supplier inspects your system.

Alloy 20 valves are typically used in sulphuric acid plants, whilst monel valves are used in hydrofluoric acid (HF Acid) plants.

Another heat transfer application is poppet valves in high-performance internal combustion engines; the valve stems are partially filled with sodium and work as a heat pipe to cool the valves.

Compensating valves Some tubas have a compensating system to allow accurate tuning when using several valves in combination, simplifying fingering and removing the need to constantly adjust slide positions.

Gate, globe, and check valves are usually hard seated while butterfly, ball, plug, and diaphragm valves are usually soft seated.

German players generally prefer rotary valves while British and American players favor piston valves — the choice of valve type remains up to the performer.

Glass valves An all-glass check valve Valves made entirely of glass may be used to restrict fluid flows.

Hastelloy valves are often used in high temperature applications, such as nuclear plants, whilst inconel valves are often used in hydrogen applications.

However many professional musicians preferred rotary valves for quicker, more reliable action, until better designs of piston valves were mass manufactured towards the end of the 19th century.

In the early years of process control, process indicators and control elements such as valves were monitored by an operator that walked around the unit adjusting the valves to obtain the desired temperatures, pressures, and flows.

It has piston valves and is played with the right hand on the valves.

Manufacturers are free to choose between using an engine based on one from their own line up or a generic engine provided by V8 Supercars. citation Both Ford and Holden use US-based racing engines with pushrod actuated valves and two valves per cylinder.