The manufacturer Schubert & Salzer Control Systems is expanding its testing facilities for its industrial valves. The new test facility is embedded in a highly efficient energy supply system for the entire production site. Control and shut-off valves can now be tested and inspected here under real conditions.
Research and development are a decisive factor for the quality of Schubert & Salzer Control Systems' control and shut-off valves. With a new steam test bench, the company has now created further opportunities for its own product tests that go beyond the industry standard. Longer and more intensive tests of the various valve types and electronic components are now possible at the Ingolstadt headquarters and production site.
Outstanding opportunities for research and development
All relevant properties of control and shut-off valves - such as speed and precision or tightness - can now be intensively tested and further improved under real conditions. Long-term tests and thermal stress tests are also carried out in-house. The test bench's steam boiler has a capacity of up to 400 kilograms of saturated steam per hour.
As a result, industrial customers benefit from much more application-specific tests and even more practical training and presentations. This is because applications can also be realistically simulated in the new test stand. The investment is therefore a very good addition to the water test stand at Schubert & Salzer Control Systems' customer training center, which was modernized just a few years ago.
Highly efficient energy supply and air conditioning technology for the site
The steam test bench is integrated into a state-of-the-art energy center with a combined heat and power plant and cogeneration. The configuration of the systems, which is perfectly tailored to the company's own requirements, supplies the entire Schubert & Salzer site in Ingolstadt with environmentally friendly electricity and thermal energy. The latter is used as heat, or converted into cold by an absorption chiller, to air-condition the premises. A stratified storage tank additionally increases the efficiency and enables heat and cold to be used as required.
The sophisticated plant and building technology enables the valve specialist to further advance its own climate protection goals and to align the site to the future in terms of energy. The combined heat and power plant is already prepared for the use of green hydrogen.
