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The relationship between control valve capacity and valve stem travel is known as
Trim design of the valve affects how the control valve capacity changes as the valve moves
through its complete travel. Because of the variation in trim design, many valves are not linear in
nature. Valve trims are instead designed, or characterized, in order to meet the large variety of
control application needs. Many control loops have inherent non linearity's, which may be
possible to compensate selecting the control valve trim.
Equal percentage - flow capacity increases exponentially with valve trim travel. Equal
increments of valve travel produce equal percentage changes in the existing Cv.
Quick opening provides large changes in flow for very small changes in lift. It usually
has too high a valve gain for use in modulating control. So it is limited to on-off service,
such as sequential operation in either batch or semi-continuous processes.
Hyperbolic
Square Root
The majority of control applications are with valves with linear, equal-percentage, or modifiedflow characteristics.