Floating Ball Valve For Sale

Hearken Flow floating ball valves utilize dynamic downstream compression to eliminate internal leakage paths. Our precision-ground spheres ensure a bubble-tight shutoff even under fluctuating pressure loads, providing the self-adaptive reliability required to protect your critical industrial systems from failure.

Long Service Life

Hearken Flow’s floating ball valve features a bidirectional seal and blowout-proof stem design, ensuring stability even in the high-pressure, high-vibration environments found in heavy-duty industries. Hearken Flow also offers a variety of seat materials, including soft and hard seals, to ensure the sealing material and your media do not accelerate corrosion, effectively reducing component replacement costs and extending the life of the floating ball valve.

Hearken Flow Floating Ball Valve

1 Piece Floating Ball Valve

Minimize potential leak paths and reduce your project costs with this robust, economical integral body design.

2 Piece Floating Ball Valve

Maximize flow efficiency in your pipeline with a full-bore design that offers you the perfect balance of easy installation and superior sealing.

3 Piece Floating Ball Valve

Drastically reduce your maintenance downtime by servicing the valve inline—allowing you to replace seals without ever removing the valve from the pipe.

API 6D Floating Ball Valve

Ensure total compliance and operational safety for your oil and gas transmission lines with valves engineered strictly to API 6D standards.

Flanged Floating Ball Valve

Achieve secure, high-strength connections in your heavy-duty industrial piping systems with standard flanged ends that make installation quick and simple.

Three Way Floating Ball Valve

Simplify your system layout and cut hardware costs by using a single valve to effortlessly divert, mix, or switch flow directions.

Split Body Floating Ball Valve

Benefit from a rugged bolted construction that allows you easy access for internal inspection and guarantees long-lasting performance in harsh environments.

Unibody Floating Ball Valve

Eliminate body joint leaks entirely with this highly compact, single-cast structure designed to save space in your facility.

Advantage

Why Choose Hearken Flow Floating Ball Valve?

Self-lubricating Design

Engineered with self-lubricating polymeric seats that significantly reduce friction coefficients. This low-torque design ensures smooth operation and extends cycle life without requiring external lubrication, allowing for the use of smaller, more cost-effective actuators.

Certified Fire-Safe Construction

Constructed to meet rigorous API 607 fire-safe standards. In the event of soft seat decomposition during a fire, the floating ball automatically seats against a secondary metal backup surface, maintaining a tight seal to prevent hazardous media leakage and fueling of the fire.

Various Connection Options

Available with precision-machined NPT Threaded, Socket Weld, or Butt Weld end connections. This versatility allows for seamless, leak-proof integration into diverse piping systems, ensuring adaptability for both high-pressure lines and general utility applications.

Precision-Aligned Split Body Structure

Features a robust two-piece split-body architecture with a positive alignment lip. This ensures perfect concentricity between body halves during assembly, eliminating side-loading on the stem and maximizing sealing reliability even under pipe stress and vibration.

Higher Cv (Kv) Values

Designed with a hydrodynamically efficient internal flow path that minimizes turbulence and pressure drop. The maximized Cv/Kv coefficients ensure optimal throughput and energy efficiency, making it ideal for process-critical applications where flow restriction cannot be tolerated.

ISO-Compliant Anti-Static Device

Equipped with a spring-loaded grounding plunger that establishes continuous electrical continuity between the ball, stem, and body. Compliant with API 608/ISO 17292, this design safely discharges static buildup to prevent ignition sources in volatile or hazardous environments.

Corrosion Resistance

Hearken Flow floating ball valves are available with wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant body materials, such as stainless steel and alloy steel, for demanding applications. Furthermore, Hearken Flow floating ball valves offer flexible configurations tailored to media characteristics, offering seat options including PTFE, EPDM, Viton, and metal seals. They provide stable operation even with harsh media, including acids, bases, and chemical solutions.

Fast and Smooth Opening and Closing

The Hearken Flow floating ball valve, with its low-torque design, utilizes a low-friction seat material and a mirror-polished internal ball, significantly reducing sticking during opening and closing. This reduces energy consumption and project costs while providing smoother and faster opening and closing.

Suitable for Harsh Media

Hearken Flow’s floating ball valves offer robust media adaptability. Featuring a corrosion-resistant, high-temperature valve body with thermal expansion compensation, they guarantee stable operation even with high-temperature steam, high-viscosity, particulate slurries, or corrosive chemicals, effectively safeguarding your process continuity.

Production

Floating Ball Valve Production Process

Hearken Flow enforces strict quality control from raw casting to final dispatch. We ensure full traceability and consistency, delivering floating ball valves that perform reliably in your critical systems.

Raw Material Verification (PMI)

Before production, every batch of raw material undergoes Positive Material Identification (PMI) spectrographic testing. By strictly verifying compliance with ASTM and NACE MR0175 standards, we eliminate the risk of material inconsistencies, ensuring your valves withstand corrosive environments and high-pressure loads without structural failure.

Precision Spherical Grinding

The heart of a floating ball valve is the ball itself. We employ advanced CNC grinding to achieve a mirror-like surface finish and perfect roundness. This precision reduces friction against the seats, resulting in significantly lower operating torque for easier actuation and a tighter, more reliable seal.

Clean Room Assembly

To protect the soft seating materials, all components undergo ultrasonic cleaning to remove microscopic machining residues. Assembly is conducted in a contaminant-free environment, preventing debris-induced seat damage and ensuring smooth, leak-free operation from the very first cycle.

100% API 598 Pressure Testing

We refuse to rely on spot checks. Every single Hearken Flow valve is subjected to rigorous API 598 / ISO 5208 hydraulic and air pressure testing. This guarantees that only units with zero leakage and verified torque values leave our factory, providing you with “install-and-forget” confidence.

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Easy Installation, Fast Maintenance

Inline Maintenance Capability

Hearken Flow top-entry floating ball valves are engineered for true in-line serviceability. Internal components—including the ball, seats, and stem—can be inspected or replaced quickly by simply removing the bonnet, without cutting the valve from the pipeline. This critical feature drastically reduces maintenance downtime and eliminates the risks associated with pipe realignment.

Compact High-Strength Architecture

Engineered with optimized wall thickness and high-tensile materials, Hearken Flow floating ball valves offer a superior strength-to-weight ratio without compromising pressure ratings. This compact design minimizes structural load on your piping system and reduces the need for expensive pipe supports, making it ideal for weight-sensitive applications like offshore platforms and skid-mounted units.

Your Professional Floating Ball Valve Manufacturer in China

Proven Reliability from -40°C to +550°C From freezing cold to extreme heat, seal integrity is non-negotiable. Hearken Flow utilizes application-specific materials and strictly controlled heat treatment processes to ensure our floating ball valves perform flawlessly across a wide temperature envelope. Trust our expertise to handle your facility’s challenging thermal dynamics with confidence.

Floating Ball Valves by Application

Boiler

Floating ball valves are widely used in boiler systems, for example, for inlet/feedwater control and steam outlet control.

Refining

Used for media switching or process control in refining processes, they effectively ensure process continuity and safety.

Delayed Coker

Stainless steel floating ball valves can be used to regulate the flow of high-temperature oils and steam, effectively improving process stability.

Bioreactor

Highly sealed and corrosion-resistant floating ball valves are commonly used to control media such as fermentation broth, culture medium, and gas.

Combustion

Commonly used for fuel flow control, Hearken Flow floating ball valves effectively isolate fuel and air, ensuring process safety and reliability.

Reactors

Metal seated floating ball valves prevent leakage in high-pressure and negative-pressure environments, maintaining stable system pressure.

Cogeneration

Hearken Flow floating ball valves are commonly used to control the flow of various heat media, such as steam, hot water, and high-temperature gas.

Distillation & Fractionation

This floating ball valve, with its strong sealing performance, effectively controls the flow of media in the distillation column, ensuring efficient operation of the fractionation process.

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FAQ

A: In a floating design, the ball moves slightly under pressure to seal. In a trunnion design, the ball is fixed on bearings and the seats move to seal against the ball.

A: In a floating ball valve, the ball is not held by a trunnion. When the valve is closed, upstream pressure pushes the ball against the downstream seat, creating a tight, leak-proof seal.

A: Floating ball valves are inherently bi-directional. They can effectively seal flow coming from either the upstream or downstream direction.

A: These valves are typically designed for low to medium-pressure systems. They are most commonly rated for ANSI Class 150 and 300, or PN16 to PN40.

A: The most common soft seat materials are PTFE and RPTFE (Reinforced PTFE). For high-temperature or high-pressure needs, PEEK or Devlon seats are used.