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Steam valves are used to control the flow and pressure level of steam and heated water vapour. The components used to manufacture steam valves include bronze, stainless steel and brass. The body and cap of the valve is made of bronze, the spindle, seat and diaphragm of non-magnetic stainless steel, and the diaphragm nut and gland of brass bars. Steam stop valves and steam non-return valves are also available. Air Valves are ordinarily supplied with un-drilled flanges. However, hydraulic valves with drilled flanges can also be supplied if specified. The flow through a hydraulic valve can become supersonic under some conditions. When this happens, the downstream pressure no longer has any impact on the flow through the valve, and the valve's capacity becomes a function of the entering pressure. Another important consideration in selecting steam valves is flow characteristic. Ideally, a valve steam’s flow characteristic complements the flow-related performance curves of the load served and provides a linear relationship between air valve stroke and load performance. Even when a steam valve and the pressure relief valve is properly sized for the design load, the large system turndown ratios associated with some steam loads can cause over sizing-like problems under low-load conditions. Approaches that employ two control valves piped in parallel often are used to address this problem. A steam system operates at high temperatures. This, in turn, elevates the temperatures of Metals in direct contact with the piping (conductive heat transfer), Objects in a line-of-sight path with the un insulated portion of the system (radiant heat transfer), Objects located above the pipe (convective heat transfer). These elevated temperatures can have an adverse effect on some of the flexible materials used in pneumatic valves and the electronics and electrical equipment used in electrically actuated valves