XP - Profiled Plate Valve

Reach the best efficiency without sacrificing reliability and uptime

The best valves in efficiency without sacrificing reliability and uptime

Conventional valve designs have outlived their purpose when it comes to increasing the efficiency and uptime of compressors. Real increases in compressor efficiency can only be achieved through innovative designs. The compressor valve is the heart of the compressor, and significantly determines the overall compressor efficiency and uptime. To optimize reliability and saving energy, you need a technologically advanced valve that can do both. HOERBIGER’s XP Profiled Plate Valve for process gas applications combines all the properties to meet these requirements: The XP valves offer up to 50% higher effective flow area than conventional valves. The high performance PowerPEEK® valve plates outperform any other PEEK valve plates in terms for impact resistance and strength.

Further, you can drastically decrease the electric power and fuel consumption and reduce the related CO2 emissions when increasing the service life and valve efficiency up to 50% in parallel. But not only that. The valves are also designed for applications in the field of green hydrogen production and hydrogen transport.

Characteristics of Profiled Plate Valves

Your benefits at a glance

Feature	Advantage	Benefit
Profiled plate design and higher number of flow channels	Industry benchmark in efficiency: 30–50% higher effctive flow area than conventional valves Superior efficiency even at low lift	Long life and high compressor uptime Reduced electric power/fuel consumption and related CO₂ emissions
Spring savers prevent coil-to-guard contact	Tribological optimization
Injection-molded high-performance PEEK®	Optimum fiber orientation and high flexural strength 4–6 times higher impact resistance than standard PEEK
Aerodynamic flow path	Reduces build up of particles and provides tolerance of liquids	Excellent reliability for reduced downtimes Reduced maintenance costs and less emissions due to fewer on-site interventions
Anti-stiction design: Wave-shaped profiled guard and tapered seat	Reduces adhesion forces due to liquids Avoids delays in valve opening and closing Tolerance against over-lubrication or liquid carryover
Heavy duty springs made of electro-slag remelting (ESR) steel	Designed for high dynamic loads
Outstanding effective flow area High-performance valve plate Tribological optimization	Replace wear parts less frequently (longer service intervals)	Lower total cost of ownership Savings in CO2 emissions and costs
	Reduce main motor energy costs
	New built: reduce size, number of valves and compressor footprint

Spring savers

Waveshape profiled guard and tapered seat

Heavy duty ESR wire springs

PowerPEEK® high-performance valve plate material means high reliability and extended service intervals

PowerPEEK® and the unique design of profiled valve plates create a valve with extreme efficiency and excellent flow characteristics. This automatically improves the valve's reliability and durability. The construction of a finer-meshed ring section increases the effective flow area and hence the efficiency of the valve. The aerodynamic design generates a lower pressure drop than conventional valve sealing elements and gives small amounts of liquid and debris the ability to pass through. PowerPEEK® plates also offer an optimized orientation of reinforcing fibers for extreme strength and robustness. This leads to an increase in MTBF and MTBM and higher production output.