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Title: Ball Valve Regulators-Description And Use
Author: H. J. Becker
Source: 1975 Appalachian Gas Measurement Short Course
Year Published: 1975
Abstract: Years ago one of the plug valve manufacturers equipped a valve with a pneumatic cylinder and a positioner and offered it as a monitor regulator. The concept was definitely a new method of gas regulation and was the beginning of a new era. I dont believe the plug valve manufacturer realized what he had done toward the design of the modern high capacity regulator. A midwestern utility used these plug valve regulators above grade with relatively good success. They believed, however, that a buried valve regulator (Figure 1) would be more desirable than an above ground unit and would greatly reduce the cost of a pressure or flow control station. Units of this nature which were built in the gas utilities shop were successful and proved to be the key to todays modern pressure and flow control stations. Many manufacturers are now building valve regulators utilizing plug valves, sliding disc valves, and ball valves. I believe, however, that any valve can be used to make a regulator.

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