The Flowserve valve is reportedly the first valve purchased for use with the new Westinghouse AP1000 reactor.
The new plants are to be located in Sanmen, Zhejiang Province, and Haiyang, Shandong Province. The first of these new plants is expected to be operational in 2013, with the second expected to come online in 2014.
The Flowserve Edward gate valves and actuators that will be used in the project are designed to be capable of isolating, for plant safety, the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor main steam pipelines in 3-5 seconds.
Tom Pajonas, president of the Flowserve flow control division, said: We take great pride in earning the first valve order from Westinghouse for their new passive AP1000 nuclear power plant design, and look forward to serving this customer with additional Flowserve products in the future.
