Power: Automation, Isolation, & Controls

Overview

Valves for Power Generation

Continuous service and up-time are mission-critical to both profitability and consumer needs for the power generation Industry. Bray Manufactures a full line of dependable isolation valves, control valves actuators and accessories for power plants engineered for high cycle rates, extreme temperatures, and high pressures common in power plant operations.

Quality

Trust Bray to deliver proven solutions that reduce your downtime, maintenance cost and lower total cost of ownership.

Reliability

Bray has earned a reputation for reliability by engineering our products for extended service life in harsh conditions.

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Power Plants

Power plants are fundamental to modern society, delivering power to meet the worlds electrical needs. Power plants searching for efficiency gains push operating temperatures and pressures ever-higher, placing enormous demands on valves, actuators and accessories that must operate continuously, making reliable and low-maintenance valves critical to power plant operations. Bray manufactures a comprehensive range of high quality, high reliability valves, actuators, and accessories for a wide variety of applications, engineered to deliver the reliability and uptime in today’s power plants and tomorrows emerging technology. Our global team of experts understand the power industry and are ready and available to assist you in existing power plant turnarounds, MRO, new construction for applications including but not limited to:

Conventional Power Plants
Combined Cycle Power Plants
Cogeneration
Combined Heat and Power (CHP)

Nuclear Power Plant (BOP)
Balance of Plant
Geothermal Power
Non-Conventional Power Generation
Waste to Energy (WtE)

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Conventional Power

Conventional power plants utilizing fossil fuels to heat water into steam and use the superheated steam to turn a turbine and generate electricity. Conventional power plants use thousands of valves and actuators operating at subcritical, and sometimes supercritical temperatures for efficiency gains. Higher temperatures and pressures put increased demands on materials and engineering. Trust Bray to deliver reliable solutions for conventional power generation plant applications including but not limited to:

Natural Gas Supply
Boiler Feedwater
Main Boiler Drain
Main Stream Supply & Bypass
Superheater Vents & Drains
Superheater Spray

Turbine Drains & Vents
Fly Ash & Soot blower
Economizer Header Drains
Hot Reheat Sprayer
Emergency Shutdown Valve
Emergency Block Valves (EBV)

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Combined Cycle

Combined cycle power plants operate at higher efficiency than conventional power plants by utilizing the waste heat produced from a primary gas turbine power generation system in a heat recovery steam generator unit. The steam produced in the unit passes through a secondary steam turbine to produce additional electricity. Like conventional plant applications combined cycle power plants normally operate at supercritical and sometimes ultra-supercritical temperatures, requiring valves and actuators engineered for severe service along with valves intended for Balance of Plant operations. Bray produces a full line of valves, actuators and accessories that are engineered for reliable service in the harshest conditions.

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Nuclear Power

An operating Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) or Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) nuclear power plant can have over 10,000 valves per operating unit. Bray manufactures and supports all Non-Safety Related (NSR) balance of plant (BOP) applications in today’s operating nuclear power plants. Choose Bray and our global expertise in flow control solutions for nuclear power generation applications, engineered for the most demanding applications.

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Cogeneration

Cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) is a power plant that generates both electricity and useful heat. Cogeneration is used in chemical plants, oil refineries, pulp & paper mills, sugar, and alcohol (especially sugarcane bagasse) and other industries. Cogeneration plants use a wide variety of fuels. In the case of Sugar production, sugar cane stalks are burned as biofuel in a furnace. Regardless of the fuel source, all Cogeneration plants heat water in a boiler to generate steam to power a turbine and use the heat generated for the manufacturing process. Bray is a trusted source of valves, actuators, and accessories to virtually every industry utilizing cogeneration plants across the globe.

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Geothermal

Geothermal power, including; Conventional hydrothermal resources, enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), Super-hot-rock geothermal and Advanced geothermal systems (AGS) are a renewable energy source. Geothermal systems operate at extreme temperatures with dry steam, flash steam and binary cycle applications and often in the presence of mineral content. Scaling and corrosion are two of the most common problems in Geothermal power. Bray's valves are engineered for applications involving scaling, corrosion, and high temperature, providing you with reliable service in geothermal power generation applications.

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To meet ASME B31.1 Power Piping Code requirements, Bray valves comply with ASME B16.34 and have been assessed and certified by multiple global certification authorities such as Lloyd’s, DNV, and UL. For prevention of water damage to steam turbines used in fossil-fuel-fired electrical power generation, ASME’s TDP-1 is considered in the design of critical severe service ball valves.