A simple test to confirm control valve stiction

• Main Authors: Shah, Sirish L., Choudhury, M. A. A. Shoukat, Kariwala, Vinay, Douke, Hisato, Takada, Haruo
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Chemical engineering; DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation::Control engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/91281; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6032
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Stiction is a common problem in the widely used spring-diaphragm type control valves in the process industry. Several methods are available for detecting stiction in control valves. After detection of stiction, a test is required to confirm that the valve in question is indeed suffering from stictio...