SLV
Electric Sanitary Quick-Mounted Ball Valve
The SLV Electric Sanitary Quick-Mounted Ball Valve adds an electric actuator to the hygienic quick-mount ball valve, combining tool-free clamp installation with automated on/off or regulating control. It brings process automation to food and pharmaceutical lines without giving up fast strip-down cleaning.
Product Benefits
- Recipe and sequence control: Sanitary lines increasingly run under recipe and sequence control, and this valve lets the control system open, close or modulate a hygienic ball valve directly.
- No operator, no air: There is no need for a local operator or a compressed-air network.
- Confirmed valve position: Feedback contacts report valve position back to the controller for reliable sequencing.
- Cleaning kept fast: The quick-mounted body keeps the defining sanitary benefit: the valve can be released from its clamps, cleaned or sterilised, and refitted quickly.
- Automation and hygiene together: You get automation and cleanability in one unit instead of trading one for the other.
Where It's Used
- Automated product circuits: Typical duties are automated product, ingredient and CIP-adjacent circuits in food, beverage and pharmaceutical plants.
- Frequent cycling: It suits anywhere hygienic quarter-turn valves are cycled frequently by the process control system.
- Batch and modulating duty: Simple open/close steps in batch sequences are covered, as are regulating duties that need a modulating actuator.
- Familiar sanitary interfaces: Because the valve interfaces are the familiar sanitary quick-mount style, it drops into existing hygienic piping alongside manually operated valves of the same series.
Good to Know
- Body and ball materials: Materials span several stainless grades plus carbon steel and duplex options, and for product-contact hygienic duty the stainless options are the usual pick.
- Seat and seal choices: Seats and seals range from PTFE-based materials to elastomers such as NBR and VITON.
- Check cleaning chemistry: Confirm seat material compatibility with your cleaning and sterilisation chemistry as well as with the product itself.
- Familiar actuator range: The actuator range mirrors the rest of the SLV electric valve family: on-off and regulating versions, multiple supply voltages, standard analogue control signals and position feedback.
- Pick the simpler unit: Choose the regulating version only where true modulating control is needed, since on-off units are simpler and economical for sequence steps.
