Single-Stage vs Multi-Stage Orifice Plates — Which Is Right for Your System When fluid moves through a restriction in a piping system, it accelerates through the narrowed passage and then expands on the downstream side. That expansion is where the engineering challenge lives. As the fluid decelerates after passing the vena contracta — the point of minimum cross-sectional area and maximum velocity — kinetic energy converts back to pressure. If that recovery happens too quickly

Cavitation in Boiler Blowdown Systems — A High-Risk Environment Boiler blowdown systems are among the most thermodynamically aggressive environments in any industrial facility. Engineers responsible for the design, operation, and maintenance of these systems routinely face the challenge of managing high-pressure, high-temperature saturated water as it transitions through control valves, orifice plates, and flash vessels. One of the most destructive — and often underestimated

Restriction orifices plates are used in a wide range of industrial applications today. Some of the most prominent restriction orifice plate implementations are within facilities such as nuclear power plants, pharmaceutical facilities, paper mills, petrochemical plants, and other industrial installations that require high to low-pressure changes. A proper restriction orifice plate sized correctly can greatly reduce cavitation and flashing in liquid flows, reduce excessive nois