Thanks everyone,
XL83NL, thanks for your comments, along the same thoughts of mine.
Pennpiper, the wear insert is to protect the flange against erosion caused by the fluid passing through the butterfly valve when it is not fully open as in the picture.
TGS4, thanks for your comments, this is...
Hi,
I was just wanting to have a quick discussion regarding clamping of either a flange wear insert or orifice plate in between two flanges and the effect of this on bolt loads due to there being 2 gaskets and a steel plate in between rather that just a single gasket. Following from that too, a...