Emergency shutdown valves

Improving availability with field proven reliability and advanced diagnostics

Reliable intelligent emergency shutdown (ESD) valves and actuators with Neles™ ValvGuard™ intelligent valve controllers improve your plant safety cost-efficiently. At Valmet, we have combined our know-how of valves, actuators, safety standards (IEC61508/61511), applications, system operability and partial stroke test devices with intelligent prediction tools. Diagnostic information is presented understandably to enable planned maintenance of potentially failing valve assemblies before they have a chance to impact the process or safety.

Reliable emergency shutdown valves

ESD valve selection

An emergency shutdown (ESD) valve is part of a safety instrumented system (SIS). It is a vital part of the safety system and often described as the final element. Normally, the term ESD valve refers to all types of safety system valves, such as shutdown, emergency shutdown, emergency ventilation or blowdown valves.

The selection of emergency shutdown valves is crucial for any industrial process. The right valve and actuator paired with an accurate valve controller will ensure compliance with standards and regulations (such as IEC 61508/61511) as well as ensure the safety and reliability of your process and plant. We provide the valves as well as all the other needed components for your reliable ESD valve assembly.

Avoid unplanned downtime

When talking about ESD valves, we are typically referring to all types of safety system valves, such as shutdown, emergency shutdown, emergency venting or blowdown valves. The valve assemblies we offer are key to protecting you from failures resulting in costly unplanned process downtime.

Certified quality and compliance

All our butterfly and ball valves for ESD service are based on field-proven, certified and thoroughly tested technologies. For emergency shutoff duty we deliver valves that are SIL 3 compliant as well as certified in terms of fire safety and fugitive emissions. We also offer pneumatic actuators and intelligent safety solenoids you need for reliable ESD performance.

The right tools and testing

Oftentimes plant owners and operators will prefer ordering their entire ESD valve assemblies from a reliable single-source supplier such as Valmet. Reliable ESD valve assemblies paired with partial stroke testing and other intelligent prediction tools help provide peace of mind when it comes to ensuring the safe and continuous operations of your process.

Emergency shutdown valve offering

Butterfly valves

Neles™ butterfly valves are designed to truly optimize the efficiency of process operations by offering best-in-class valve capacity. They provide long-lasting tightness and industry-leading valve reliability, certified to SIL 3. Our product range includes both metal and soft-seated and rubber-lined butterfly valves.

Ball valves

Our ball valves are designed to meet the requirements of the process industries with improved process safety and efficiency. Our proven technology in design, materials and coatings enhance process reliability in the most demanding shut-off and control applications. For control applications our ball valves provide famous Q-trim™ technology for noise attenuation and cavitation prevention. A wide range of product certifications include fugitive emission, fire-safe and SIL 3.

Pneumatic actuators

Neles™ double acting and spring return quarter-turn actuators are designed for use both in modulating control and on-off service. These actuators offer an extremely long cycle life and are well suited for almost any type of rotary valve.

Intelligent safety solenoids

Neles ValvGuard is a top class intelligent safety solenoid with partial stroke testing features for emergency shutdown and venting valves. Based on the automatic PST and other diagnostics data, VG9000 increases safety and plant safety targets can be reached more economically than with other solutions.

Valve sizing and selection software

Digital tools for valve sizing, selection, drawing, support, and PID tuning.

Read more about emergency shutdown (ESD) valves

How to select an ESD valve?

May 12, 2021

For us, re-inventing reliability is a critical mission that impacts technology and product development. The above concept is also reflected in ESD-valves and how these should be selected.

SIL 3 – am I safe now?

Dec 7, 2015

3 steps to ensure ESD valve reliability beyond certification

Jan 4, 2017

Final elements, such as ESD valves, are a critical part in the safety lifecycle. When they are not working properly, the safety of the entire plant is in jeopardy. To ensure overall plant safety, correct ESD valve selection plays a vital role. A lot of uncertainty prevails around the relatively new standards IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 and how they should be interpreted for safety valves. This blog post looks closer at this issue and sheds some light on what is an essential but confusing subject.

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