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The increasing demands placed on valve technology in recent years have led to a
formidable extension of the range of available technologies and valve types, models,
and properties. The most commonly used are poppet valves and piston spool valves.
Nowadays, there is hence a much wider choice of customised valve technology to
successfully plan a project. However, choosing the right parts for the application at hand
requires comprehensive knowledge and an accurate appraisal by the consulting
engineer or technician. This White Paper is intended to offer you a brief overview.
Valve technologies
Piston spool
Poppet valves Other technologies
valves
Independent of Pressure
Soft sealing Hard sealing
pressure dependent
Poppet valves, piston spool valves and the cartridge principle what you need to know
The poppet valve dependent valves, the control pressure is dependent
The very simple construction and the option of using on the operating pressure.
any material often makes the poppet valves more
inexpensive than the piston spool valves. For This is because when the air flows through the
instance, a 5/2 poppet valve (see figure 2) only valve, as seen in figure 2 from channel 1 to channel
requires 3 axial seals, but there are more 2, the surface area D2 is larger than D1. Since the
advantages with this technology: the actuation same operating pressure is exerted on both
strokes are small, which allows for shorter switching surfaces, an imbalance of forces occurs, which has
times. The axial sealing technology is resistant to to be compensated.
soiling. Also, poppet valves do not require
lubrication, which is an advantage in terms of
chemical compatibility with lubricated compressed
air.
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Publisher/author:
Festo AG & Co. KG
Philipp Wahl
Marketing Concepts
E-mail: pwhl@de.festo.com