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ARI Air Valves for Potable Water Systems

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ARI Air Valves are the most compact, light weight air valves in the market outperforming the competition by simply working, while others fail.

Why ARI Air Valves For Potable Water?

Minimum 50% less weight
NSF certified
Up to 18x greater air release flow rates
Operates at high differentials protecting your pipeline where other fail
Self contained options eliminating confined space entry maintenance

ARI from ZERO to HERO

Seventeen years ago municipalities and civil engineers would have said, "who is ARI?" Today they say, "we cannot function without ARI."

Why do I need an Air Valve?

An air valve is critical component of your pipeline allowing fluid to flow while under pressure in addition protecting the pipeline during draining. Simply put, an ARI Air Valve is the "lungs of your pipe".

During pipeline fill the air valve will discharge air replacing the air with fluid. With out air valves both fluid and air would occupy the space greatly reducing capacity.
During normal pipeline operation, the air valve will discharge entrained air within the solution preventing air pockets from forming at high points. Air at high points will restrict flow resulting in increase of pumping energy costs and potential transient surges as pocket of air separate and travel down the pipeline.
During pipeline draining, as an example when pumps shut down intentionally and/or unintentionally. Air valve will open to allow air into the pipeline replacing fluid with air. Failure to do this would result in pipeline collapse or pipeline damage due to negative pressure build up.

Why has ARI Had Such Great Success Over Other Brands Within The Market?

Proven performance, many OEM air valves simply don't work and fail regularly. ARI valve have a near zero failure rate. We always encourage a phone call to local municipalities requesting "past service acknowledgement" of the valve they operate.
Light Weight. 8 lbs vs 200 pounds and our air valve will out perform the 200lb valve in air flow.
Safety, we eliminate confined space entry to maintain.
Support; we size, we locate, we test, we resource and we install.

Engineering Drawings

Please click this link to download ZIP file (10 Mb) containing engineering drawings in DWG format.

Contact an infraStruct Sales Representative to find out how we can help you improve your pipeline efficiency, eliminate confined space entry and reduce service costs, or to book a "Lunch and Learn".

Sanitary Air Valve Maintenance

A properly functioning air valve is a critical component of your pipeline, allowing fluid to flow while under pressure, in addition protecting the pipeline during draining. A correctly installed, high quality air valve will drastically improve the performance of your water and sanitary systems, reducing service and maintenance costs over the long term.

infraStruct Services can perform repair and ongoing maintenance on any brand of Air Valve.