When choosing the ball valve, you will face numerous choices. Available materials, proper size, and design are the key factors to decide which type of ball valve to use. Equally important is the type of ball valve seats which directly determines the leakage class of the ball valve. Before you choose the right ball valve seats, you must know the following question: Is the medium corrosive? Contains abrasive particles? For high temperature or high pressure? Once you know these things, you will make the right choice. Therefore, the first step to fully understand your craft condition: choose a suitable ball valve seat.

Almost all the industrial ball valves are metal seat and soft seat available. Both of them offers excellent sealing performance and have their unique and irreplaceable advantages, and inevitably, due to the shortcomings, costs, abrasion resistant performance, working conditions of different materials, metal-seated valves and soft-seated valves both have their markets and long-lasting solutions for critical applications.

The table below showed the advantages and disadvantages of metal seat ball valve and soft seat bal valve.

Metal seat ball valve VS soft seat ball valve: