Inventors:
Glenn E. Wallace - Anaheim CA
Assignee:
VoV Enterprises, Inc. - Anaheim CA
International Classification:
F16K 31122, F16K 4700
Abstract:
A water well recharge throttle valve is configured as a hydraulically actuated flow control device that permits calibrated throttling of water used in Artificial Storage and Recovery (ASR), Salt Water Barrier, Dedicated Recharge and Injection Wells to prevent the free cascading of water and thereby eliminate the entrainment of air which may cause air fouling, bio-fouling, and calcite formation with a resultant reduction in permeability of the aquifer. The valve includes a fixed tubular member which is selectively mounted in one of three ways: (1) to the lower end of the pump column, below the pump with a check valve/strainer mounted below the unit and including a co-generation/recharge feature; (2) to the lower end of the pump column, and above the check valve and submersible pump; and (3) to the lower end of a drop pipe, with a blind flange connected to the bottom end of the valve, a dedicated recharge well application. In each arrangement, the inner member contains fixed flow control openings in which an outer, upwardly based flow regulating tubular member is axially moved by a double acting hydraulic actuator to adjust flow through the flow control openings. The inner member has a wall with two passages therein for directing hydraulic fluid to opposite sides of a flow barrier thereon which separates a main chamber in the double acting hydraulic actuator into two sub-chambers.