Ball valves
Alfa Laval Ball Valves: Versatile, Hygienic, and Efficient
Alfa Laval ball valves deliver safe, economical, and durable performance in hygienic processing lines. Their full-bore design ensures unrestricted fluid flow, minimizing pressure drops and enabling easy handling of viscous liquids or liquids containing large particles. Fully piggable and equipped with FDA-compliant product-wetted elastomers, these valves optimize product recovery and ensure complete cleanability, preventing contamination and maximizing plant efficiency.
Designed for diverse applications in food, beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries, Alfa Laval ball valves are available with manual handles or maintenance-free pneumatic actuators. Intelligent valve control units with auto-setup capabilities further enhance ease of use. Let IPS's experts help you select the ideal ball valves to reduce pressure losses, minimize product waste, and improve yields while ensuring reliable and safe operation.
Alfa Laval SBV Sanitary Ball Valve
The Alfa Laval Sanitary Ball Valve (SBV) is a hygienic valve with a full-bore design, matching the pipeline diameter to ensure efficient flow with no restrictions or pressure drops. This feature makes it ideal for handling high-viscosity or particulate liquids, and it is also well-suited for pigging systems to minimize product waste and enhance plant performance.
- Reliable full-flow performance, especially for pigging
systems - Compact, straightforward hygienic design
- Versatile operation with automated or manual control
- Durable and water hammer-safe
- Easy to clean (optional cavity filler or cavity cleaning
The Alfa Laval SBV serves as an ideal hygienic product valve in various industries, including dairy, food, beverage, brewery, chemical, and more.
Contact usHow Do Alfa Laval Ball Valves Work?
Alfa Laval hygienic ball valves feature a precision-made ball with a full bore positioned inside the valve body, secured between two PTFE valve seats. A 90° rotation of the valve stem—via a manual handle or pneumatic actuator—opens or closes the valve.
The full-bore design ensures the bore diameter matches the pipeline, allowing viscous liquids or liquids with particles to flow freely with minimal pressure drop and product loss. When closed, the ball tightly seals the passage, ensuring reliable operation. Inspection holes in the bonnet connecting the valve body and actuator allow quick verification of stem seal integrity.
Durability is enhanced by a specially selected PTFE-grade material and a robust ball, while spring-loaded, self-adjusting seal rings ensure a secure stem seal. The valve’s design also features assembly screws for easy disassembly and maintenance, ensuring long service life and dependable performance.