Valves for refining industry

Is your mission to make your oil refinery a safe, sustainable and profitable business? That’s our mission too. We partner with you over the entire lifetime of your plant to make your oil refinery a business success. We apply our comprehensive industry knowledge at every turn, from planning and choosing the right valves to lifelong operations.

Benefits

Hundreds of refining customers around the world

Improving efficiency by reducing process variability

Over 50 years of experience in the refining industry

400+ service professionals in more than 40 countries

Reliable valves and services for refining industry

Valmet has delivered valves to the refining businesses in over 100 countries for the past 60 years. We have helped hundreds of customers improve their process reliability, productivity, safety and sustainability with application-appropriate valve solutions.

During these times when progressively stringent standards may threaten your mission, our skilled experts in over 40 countries on 4 continents won’t let you down.

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Single-source supplier for thousands of flow control needs

An oil refinery requires thousands of unique flow control components, but you only need one single-source supplier for complete coverage of all your individual processes – Valmet.

We have a long and proven history of supplying valves, actuators and positioners to the world’s leading refining companies for their end-to-end processes. As a result, we pride ourselves on thoroughly understanding and meeting your needs.

Our products cover all regular on-off and control applications, as well as those for more demanding refining applications, including switching valves for hydrogen production in PSA units, valves for catalyst applications or special sulfur-handling valves. We offer standard or customized severe service solutions. All Valmet products guarantee long-lasting tightness for the expected operational uptime between the shutdowns – exactly what you need for faultless and profitable operation of your refinery business.

Get dedicated and intelligent support

Working with Neles means you benefit from our global yet tight-knit network of experts dedicated to being forerunners in safety and sustainability. You also get your own team of highly trained flow control professionals ready to assist you reach the highest product quality. Whether you need to choose the right product for some of your toughest applications or want to efficiently plan and execute a shutdown, we can help you reach your target. Together, we can work to reduce maintenance and process operational costs.

And new digital technologies allow us to do so faster and more efficiently than ever before. We use intelligent solutions to ensure timely, top-quality service – because for us, every detail matters.

At last, you can spend less time worrying about environmental and operational issues and more time focused on unprecedented uptime and profits.

Valves for different applications in refining industry

Burner management systems

Continuous catalytic reforming

Delayed coking

Fluid catalytic cracking

High temperatures and corrosive medium can quickly turn a profitable FCC process into a plant-wide downtime nightmare. As a dependency for downstream processes, reliability in the FCC is a must.

Hydrotreating and hydrocracking

Sulfur recovery

Insights into refining

Solutions for cavitation, noise and flow-induced torque

Q: I need a solution for a demanding control valve application where the dynamic torque and cavitation have been challenging for conventional butterfly valves. Do you have any solutions in your product range? A: We would recommend our Neles™ Q-Disc™, which is available for our Neldisc™ and Wafer-Sphere™ butterfly valves. In short, Q-disc is a flow balancing trim designed to address the dynamic torque-related challenges included by flow in butterfly valve applications.

Smart technology utilization in the refining & chemicals industry

Over the years the field devices used in various process industries have changed from simple to more intelligent. Through the enhanced intelligent features, these smart field devices present process industries wide range of possibilities. Yet we find that the functionalities and benefits of smart technology are often not yet fully utilized. This is particularly the case when it comes to diagnostics features. We at Valmet hope to change all that.