The paper presents a method to prevent the water hammer by an adaptive control of the valve closing process. For this purpose, the valve is equipped with a brake system that acts onto the rotation axis of the valve flap. The brake cylinder of the applied hydraulic disk brake is connected to the pipe
Sustainable Development — Development of an Assessment System of Corporate Code of Conduct
✍ Scribed by Norbert Hiller; Udo Ammon
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- German
- Weight
- 355 KB
- Volume
- 73
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-286X
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