Hydraulics: Control Valves

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This course is part of a series of hydraulic courses to help your employees gain knowledge of fluid characteristics and understand how fluids exert pressure to support loads and flow to move loads.

A single malfunctioning valve can make an entire system break down. This cd-rom will help employees understand how various valves function and affect system operation. Pressure compensation, directional control valves and spool actuation are discussed.

-Pressure control valves
-Normally open and normally closed valves
-Directly operated and compound valves
-Internal and external operations
-Pressure control valves in a system
-Flow control valves
-Principles of flow control valves
-Pressure compensated flow control valves
-Directional control valves
-One- and two-way valves
-Three- and four-way valves
-Methods of spool positioning valves
-Modes of failure