Sentence examples for butterfly valve from inspiring English sources
noun
A valve with a disk-shaped mechanism which can be used for isolating or regulating flow.
The pilot adjusts the positioning of the butterfly valve by means of a throttle control.
A butterfly valve is a type of flow control device, typically used to regulate fluid flow.
A type of valve commonly used for throttling and controlling the rate of flow is the butterfly valve.
The choke, a butterfly valve, reduces the intake of air and allows a fuel-rich charge to be drawn into the cylinders when a cold engine is started.
This paper studies the generation of noise by car ventilation systems whose outlet rates are controlled by a butterfly valve and whose directions are controlled by grilles.
A butterfly valve is a circular disk pivoted along one diameter; the solid lines in the Figure (left centre), show one in the closed position.
"They're called butterfly valves," he said of the sluices inside the cylinder.
Hardev Singh Phull, engineering group leader at Dunlop Aerospace Fluid Dynamics discusses the contribution that a new generation of triple-offset butterfly valves can make to fluid control.
The results reported in the article, in addition to being of fundamental theoretical interest, are expected to impact practical design considerations of electromechanical butterfly valves.
Butterfly valves are popularly used in service in the industrial and water works pipeline systems with large diameter because of its lightweight, simple structure and the rapidity of its manipulation.
Seconds later, when you start thinking straight, you slip the transmission into neutral, coast carefully to the side of the road, apply the handbrake and switch off the roaring engine.The first, and only, time it happened to your correspondent, the cause was a broken return-spring on the carburettor's butterfly valves.
