Actuators and Controls

Since 1976 SERVOVALVE S.p.A. has designed and produced heavy duty pneumatic and hydraulic actuators for the most critical and complex industrial applications, becoming through the years a well known reliable and innovative independent supplier for the main worldwide valve manufacturers and Engineering Company.

Following the large experience on valve actuating systems and the deep knowledge of the most stringent international quality standards, production has been designed for the most arduous working conditions, providing actuators suitable to be installed in hostile and corrosive environmental and to withstand presence of high vibrations and severe service, saline atmosphere, high or low ambient temperatures and cryogenic service.

Servovalve fluid power actuators have been provided for various critical services for conventional, geothermal and nuclear power plants, offshore platforms and onshore oil&gas fields, refineries and desalination plants, LNG plants and FPSO applications all over the world.

Working closely with End Users and valve manufacturers, has brought Servovalve to be considered a customers partner more than just a subsupplier. Servovalve policy of customer satisfaction for the most critical and out of standard requirements, has arisen as a consequence one of the most wide product range.

Servovalve reputation for excellence in valve actuation engineering and production is coming directly from a worldwide field experience of more than thirty years.

Many of the actual Servovalve actuators have been developed following customers request, and their execution constantly improved according to End Users feedbacks and from new market requirements, keeping production updated to the latest needs of the most advanced and innovative valve actuation technology.

Highly trained and experienced sales and technicians provide customer with the best technical and cost effective solution for any actuation requirement, with a high quality and reliable construction and if necessary a full custom made proposal. Due to his know-how and experience in the most critical valve control applications, Servovalve scope of supply is not limited to fluid power actuators, but include complete actuation systems for on-off or control service.

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Quarter turn actuator

Servovalve quarter turn actuators are designed to operate ball, butterfly, plug or any other valve with 90 rotation, for on-off or modulating service. Rack&Pinion actuators are mainly adopted for small size valves or for very critical and accurate modulating service, while scotch yoke executions are preferred for medium and big size valves, due to their capacity of exalting output torques at 0 and 90 valve position. To perform the best possible output torque diagram relevant to the valve requested torque, scotch yoke is available in symmetric or canted execution.

Quarter turn actuator

Well proofed heavy duty design concept provides a economical and reliable solution with the key following features:
Rack & Pinion or Scotch Yoke (Symmetric or Canted execution) mechanism Pneumatic or Hydraulic execution in Single or Double acting configuration Totally enclosed waterproof housing that provides complete protection for all moving parts Fabricated carbon steel or ductile cast iron housing construction Pneumatic/hydraulic cylinder is realised in internally chromium plated carbon steel in order to minimize piston movement friction and prevent corrosion phenomenon Internal shaft in chromium plated alloy steel and bushings PTFE charged to reduce frictions Spring cartridge designed to allow the replacement of the spring in field without any danger Specially designed safety stay-bolts allow to open the cartridge and remove the springs only after having completely released the loaded spring, avoiding all risk of injury to operating personnel, thus maintaining the possibility of internal inspection or maintenance. The same safety stay-bolts preload again the springs, closing the cartridge without any special tools Standard operating temperature range min -20C max +80C. Available on request execution for low temperature (up to -60C) or high temperature (up to 200C) Emergency manual hand wheel or hydraulic override available on request Special execution for critical modulating service with reduced friction and hysteresys Output torques up to 500.000 Nm

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Linear Actuator
Servovalve linear actuators are designed to operate gate or globe valves, for on-off or modulating applications. These high performance actuators are compact and provide a simple but reliable design with particularly accurate execution for actuation of process control valves, allowing excellent response with low hysteresys and dead band. Actuators can be supplied as double acting or spring return and are manufactured to operate in the most severe working conditions.

Key design features:

Pneumatic or Hydraulic execution in Single or Double acting configuration Totally enclosed waterproof housing that provides complete protection for all moving parts Pneumatic/hydraulic cylinder is realized in internally chromium plated carbon steel in order to minimize piston movement friction and prevent corrosion phenomenon Shaft in chromium plated alloy steel and bushings PTFE charged to reduce frictions Spring cartridge designed to allow the replacement of the spring in field without any danger Specially designed safety stay-bolts allow to open the cartridge and remove the springs only after having completely released the loaded spring, avoiding all risk of injury to operating personnel, thus maintaining the possibility of internal inspection or maintenance. The same safety stay-bolts preload again the springs, closing the cartridge without any special tools Standard operating temperature range min -20C max +80C. Available on request execution for low temperature ( up to -60C) or high temperature (up to 200C) Adapting parts for valve assembly according to customer request Emergency manual hand wheel or hydraulic override available on request Special execution for critical modulating service with reduced friction and hysteresys, including optional hydraulic dampers Output thrust up to 500 kN

Electrohydraulic actuator
The ultimate approach in engineering of Power plants and Oil&Gas production and treatment fields, has increased the demand for remote operation of valves with fully autonomous systems. Best solution to reduce plant installation cost where compressed air is not available or is not a practical solution and to allow operation in remote or unmanned locations, are selfcontained hydraulic actuator systems.

Main advantages of an electrohydraulic actuator are the following:

Reduction of cost for installation and maintenance providing a simple and reliable system Increased safety with automatic fail safe position in case of electric power failure High level of reliability due to continuous monitoring of working status Compact execution with reduction of dimensions and weight due to the availability of high pressure hydraulic medium for actuator operation, with possibility of providing a totally sealed system with corrosion protection of internal components for installation in harsh environmental or application of fireproof protections Hydraulic energy stored in high pressure compact accumulators, available at any time under all circumstances LCD display for easy calibration, position, pressure and fault diagnostic Design of electrohydraulic system is extremely flexible and can be adapted to suit many different application or plant requirement, providing a highly customized product in various configuration: Centralized power pack designed with built-in accumulator rack and control cabinet for control of one or more valves Self-contained hydraulic units with compact power pack integrated with the actuator Fully independent hydraulic system for on/off or modulating service with 4-20 mA control signal and Hart protocol Hydraulic unit for HIPPS application on safety and critical valves

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Fast acting actuator

Since the beginning of his activity Servovalve has designed, working closely with technical department of main steam turbine manufacturer, Emergency Fast Acting actuators for turbines by-pass valves.
Fast acting actuators are available in execution for on/off or modulating service in linear or quarter turn execution. To maximize the already high reliability, due to their function of protection for the turbine or strategic and critical equipment, special executions have been developed using Belleville spring cartridges. Executions with rack and pinion mechanism also for big size quarter turn valves has been provided for extremely accurate modulating service or in case of important dynamic torques requirement.

To certify with extreme accuracy performance and stroke test, dedicated equipment and software has been developed in order to guarantee

Their execution has been developed and improved taking into account the particular severe service, defining actuators with the main following features:
High output torques for operation of big size valves working with high pressure and temperature steam Execution with custom made manifolds and exhaust valves avoiding the use of piping and fittings due to the presence of high vibrations Custom made quick discharge manifolds to reach emergency closing stroke time < 0,15-0,2 sec Custom made dampers to avoid excessive dynamic stresses to valve seats in last part of closure stroke

the respect of technical specification and simulate the effective working conditions in modulating and emergency actions Fast acting emergency shutdown actuators are installed worldwide in a wide number of power plants of all the most important international turbine manufacturers.

Actuators for Nuclear Power Units

In the 80 during engineering and construction of nuclear power plants in Italy, Servovalve was one of the first company to design actuators suitable to comply with the requirements of Nuclear industry.

After severe test and qualification sessions, many actuators were supplied to the principal plants as: Montalto di Castro NPP - Italy Research Center of Brasimone - Italy Caorso NPP - Italy SuperPheonix Plant - France

Activity stopped after Italian plant construction interruption caused by Chernobyl disaster, but a certain activity had been maintained for assistance and small supplies for ending projects. Thanks to past experience and know-how, New Nuclear Renaissance, due to worldwide demand for environmentally friendly major source of energy for the future, has rapidly become a new opportunity of development for Servovalve production. A skilled and experienced technical branch has been dedicated to new products and highly customised execution developed in co-operation with main European and Asian Company involved in Nuclear Plant construction. As a result of the awarded approvals and qualifications, Servovalve has provided actuators to new Nuclear power plants including the following projects: Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant - Romania Flamanville 3 EPR Nuclear Power Plant - France Olkiluoto 3 EPR Nuclear power plant - Finland Qinshan 3-4 Nuclear Power Plant - China Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant - China

Working under the most stringent Quality Assurance requirements , design of actuators for Nuclear application rely on the latest mechanical project software allowing the performing of:
Detailed 3-D models Modal analysis calculation for natural frequencies and mode of vibrations calculation Finite elements analysis for stress and strain and seismic calculations Relying not only on theoretical results, actuators performances has been verified with functional test under third parties approval, including life cycle test and seismic resistance verification on vibrating tables at qualified Test Center.

Qualifications are still on-going also for supply of materials for life extension for many European Nuclear Power units

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Fireproof actuator
Critical valves are often installed in hazardous and dangerous area of refinery, offshore and onshore plants, gas treatment units, where the event of explosion or fire is always possible. To keep the control of the valve and relevant process even in case of fire, Servovalve actuators can be provided with a suitable fireproof protection that will guarantee normal working conditions for several minutes protecting all mechanical parts and control circuit equipment.

All insulation systems are provided with complete Third Party certification. According to the chosen solution, protection is provided for temperatures up to 1300C and for periods up to 120 minutes. Servovalve technicians are at disposal for training and demonstration on how to fit on our actuators the protective enclosures.

According to the various requirement and depending on actuator execution or dimension and design of the local control circuit, different insulation systems can be proposed:
Intumescent coating Flexible passive protection certified for hydrocarbon pool fire or jet fire test Rigid passive protection enclosure certified for jet fire test

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Compact Actuators
Technical feedback received from Customers and End Users has clearly shown that one of main critical features for Offshore & FPSO applications is the limited space availability. Servovalve response to the rapidly increasing demand for compact actuators is the UCR series available in both hydraulic or pneumatic supply execution.

UCR series has been designed to provide same performances of scotch yoke actuators but, due to his innovative design, with a completely different result in overall dimensions, as showed in the below comparative figure. Design is extremely flexible with the possibility to customize the ratio between external diameter and height adapting actuator construction to space availability on site and optimizing dimensions and weight to End User requirement.

Extreme compact design is particularly suitable to allow an optimum corrosion resistance and protection of internal parts, becoming the best solution for the extreme and severe working conditions of offshore, subsea and FPSO applications.

Main features and benefits of UCR construction :

Extremely reduced dimensions Perfect weights balance due to the symmetry respect valve spin axis, that means greater facility of assembly/disassembly with valve at site without special equipments to balance the eccentric load Simple construction with reduction of parts and consequent reduction in weight High efficiency and low friction ensuring a long free maintenance life of the actuator Totally enclosed design for corrosion protection of internals and optimum resistance to dust and water Reduction of hydraulic/pneumatic supply consumption. UCR actuator also allow to reduce the fluid displacement improving operating time, and reducing hydraulic power units components size. Flexible customized design according to installation site limitations

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Self Contained Hydraulic actuators

Following market demand Servovalve has developed

Oil&Gas exploration, production, treatment and distribution plants are more and more often located in remote sites, consequently the request for providing reliable ESD valve shutdown systems able to work in condition where external power source is not available is highly increasing.

a flexible module including a Self Contained Hydraulic unit suitable for service under the most severe environmental

conditions, to be coupled either with quarter turn or linear spring return hydraulic actuators for pipeline valves to provide a fail safe emergency shutdown device. Control unit is designed to provide a manual charging of the system and capability of maintaining normal valve opened condition for extremely long periods with a specially designed zero leakage hydrauilic manifold.

Emergency action is both manual and automatic,

Main benefits and significant features of Servovalve Self Contained Hydraulic actuators are:
Flexible remote and/or local emergency shutdown system with possibility of customized execution Elimination of any requirement of air, fuel gas, electricity or expensive nitrogen backup accumulator system Ideal for remote unmanned and unpowered service Absence of any hazardous gas emission to atmosphere, particularly important for plants treating sour gas with presence of H2S Elimination of any corrosion associated with the use of fuel/sour gas as medium supply, ensuring reduced maintenance and long life to actuator and control equipment

controlled by process pipeline Pressure Sensing valves that detect emergency high or low pressure fluid pipeline conditions, activating the emergency closure. System include automatic safety action in case of fire with selected fusible plug valves and oil temperature compensation and pressure relief allowing the unit suitable for any environmental including sites with wide temperature range such as desert or artic climate.

Fail safe design Pressure Sensing valve available for sweet gas or sour gas with construction in AISI 316

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Special Executions
Custom made valve actuating systems have often brought Servovalve to develop new innovative products to satisfy the request of many different market niche for various industrial application.

Several of these executions have joined Servovalve product portfolio.

Counterweight actuators
Typically installed in sea water desalination plants and hydropower plants, counterweight actuators are provided for the actuation of big size valves often working as combined check valves. Fabricated steel construction is provided with single acting hydraulically operated cylinder, equipped with suitable hydraulic control manifolds to obtain a closing stroke with different speed to avoid the presence of hammer effect inside main process piping, allowing the actuators to act also as a damper to protect installation structures from undesirable stress and over pressure.

Direct gas operated actuators

The ultimate development of gas treatment plant has increased the request for automated valves operated directly with process gas. Servovalve actuators have been adopted to be operated with full pressure natural pipeline gas, designing a wide range of full control systems often contained in lockable enclosures, for the control of remote valves in the harsh environmental. The use of pipeline gas allows to avoid the use and the maintenance of gas/oil tanks and more complicated control systems.

Gas Over Oil actuators

Based on field experience of more than 30years, Gas Over Oil actuators have been designed for the control of remote Pipeline isolating valves, providing a reliable and modular product suitable for the harsh working conditions, from hot sandy environmental to execution for low temperature (up to minus 60C) for artic service. Full control system can be designed to perform any kind of control, including Local and Remote control, presence of Pressure Pilot ESD Logic, Line Break control or Electric fail system. Operating pressure of standard serie has a range from 15 Barg to 105 Barg for sweet gas medium supply (execution for sour gas available on request).

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Research & Development

Special care and resources have been dedicated since the beginning to satisfy customer requests in special and out of standard actuators, developing a skilled engineering team able to propose custom made solutions to any kind of application coming from End Users or Engineering Company.
Servovalve technical Dpt. can rely on the latest 3D software for actuator design. Finite elements mechanical stress analysis and motion simulations are currently adopted from our Engineers. This top level ability added to the thirty years know-how and existing data base, allow accurate project realization and supports our Sales offices in providing fast replies to Customer request with detailed technical solutions. All new projects are carefully tested during engineering phase with accurate simulations of working conditions and cycle load test, realized on our test bench complete of appropriate and sophisticate measurement instruments. Design of actuators is realized according to the most stringent international standards so to produce full control systems easy to be installed, used and maintained whilst remaining safe and environmentally friendly as the most cost effective and reliable solution to any flow control request. Due to their innovative and unique design, many of the technical solutions proposed are actually under Servovalve patent.

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Quality Assurance and Certification

Design, manufacturing and test procedures are complying according to the highest quality and efficiency standards, under the award of internationally recognized Third Party notified body, in particular Servovalve awarded certifications are the following:

UNI EN ISO 9001 : 2008 awarded by Det Norske Veritas ( DNV ) European Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/CE ( PED ) awarded by Det Norske Veritas ( DNV ) ATEX Directive 94/9/CE awarded by Det Norske Veritas ( DNV ) Functional Safety Management System according to IEC 61508:2000 ( SIL ) awarded by TUV NORD for application up to SIL 3 Level Gost-R Certificate Rostechnadzor Certificate ( RTN )

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Actuators and Controls

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