As one of the first essential machines to be invented during the Industrial Age, ‘pumps’ have been playing a crucial role across numerous industries, and especially in the energy sector. With the growing significance of ‘pumps’ across refineries, power plants or chemical factories, pump protection has emerged as one of the most crucial prerequisites in the energy sector. Especially in high-risk facilities, such as in nuclear power plants or in the chemical industry, the safety of the pumps is essential. If it is not guaranteed, there is grave danger for people and the environment. However, invalid temperature rise, cavitation, dry running, vibrations, or breakdowns are a few of the many challenges that companies in the energy sector face in order to protect their pumps. Against this backdrop, Schroeder Valves, a global specialist in designing and manufacturing pump protection fittings, has been developing and manufacturing high-quality valves that protect pumps worldwide.

The company’s portfolio ranges from throttles and automatic recirculation valves all the way to high-pressure control valves. Each product is designed and manufactured in a customized manner to meet the special needs of their clients’ pumps and system data. Their specialized pump fittings are suitable for use under extreme conditions due to the premium components and materials that are used to manufacture the valves. It is because of this reason that the pump fittings manufactured by Schroeder Valves require extremely low-maintenance and are highly durable. With these attributes, their pump protection valves ensure lower downtimes and higher system efficiency. Since they do not require any auxiliary energy, they guarantee lower operating costs as well.

Nevertheless, there is a lot of effort and dedication needed to be able to guarantee the high quality of those individually designed valves at all times.

Each product is designed and manufactured in a customized manner to meet the special needs of their clients’ pumps and system data

And staying true to that belief, every single valve is checked hydraulically in Schroeder Valves’ unique quality and test center before it is delivered to the client.All flow-related data is recorded by a PLC and electronically processed. What’s more interesting is, even years later, it is still possible for them to provide customers with information about pressure losses, flow values such as Kv (Cv) or the switching behavior of the valve.

Alongside, the company also offers tailor-made solutions for maintenance. Even though the products manufactured by Schroeder Valves requires low-maintenance, regular professional maintenance of the pump protection fitting makes sense for several reasons— primarily because it ensures permanent functionality and thus long-term yield. Based on this assertion, the wide-ranging maintenance services offered by Schroeder Valves covers everything— right from monitoring and regular visual inspections to detailed annual analysis.

Having said that, one shouldn’t be left surprised at the fact that all the masterfully engineered products by Schroeder Valves have been extensively used for several years across systems that generate renewable energies, including solar thermal power plants, biomass heating power plants or even pumped storage power plants, among many others. Finally, just like an increasing number of customers are prioritizing energy-efficient products for their power plants, Schroeder Valves is taking note of all the industry developments around ‘energy efficiency’ to develop their products in tandem with the customer’s requirements. Having already built a reputation for creating energy-efficient products that do not require any auxiliary energy – the company wants to stay abreast of all the demands the market places on them and meet them with further and new developments in the days to come.