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If you have ever come across a pneumatic or hydraulic system in the industry, you may have seen directional control valves or spool valves. There are a variety of well-known control valves in the industry such as Globe Valves.

But today’s article is about different types of control valves known as Directional Control Valves or DCVs for short. You may hear of them as solenoid valves or spool valves as well.

If you want to know how directional control valves work and how you should read and interpret their symbols, read this article to the end, or watch the following video.

Directional control valves are used both in pneumatic and hydraulic flow control systems.

So there are pneumatic directional control valves and hydraulic directional control valves. Sometimes the hydraulic directional control valves are called spool valves.

Directional Control Valve Application Example

As we're learning about the basics of the DCVs in this article and there's not much difference in their working principle and symbols, we develop our example based on a “pneumatic” system. And of course, if you learn one of them you can easily learn the other.

Let's start with a simple pneumatic circuitry.

The main power of this pneumatic system is coming from the compressed air that is supplied by a compressor.

 

If you have ever come across a pneumatic or hydraulic system in the industry, you may have seen directional control valves or spool valves. There are a variety of well-known control valves in the industry such as Globe Valves.

But today’s article is about different types of control valves known as Directional Control Valves or DCVs for short. You may hear of them as solenoid valves or spool valves as well.

If you want to know how directional control valves work and how you should read and interpret their symbols, read this article to the end, or watch the following video.

Directional control valves are used both in pneumatic and hydraulic flow control systems.

So there are pneumatic directional control valves and hydraulic directional control valves. Sometimes the hydraulic directional control valves are called spool valves.

Directional Control Valve Application Example

As we're learning about the basics of the DCVs in this article and there's not much difference in their working principle and symbols, we develop our example based on a “pneumatic” system. And of course, if you learn one of them you can easily learn the other.

Let's start with a simple pneumatic circuitry.

The main power of this pneumatic system is coming from the compressed air that is supplied by a compressor.

 

If you have ever come across a pneumatic or hydraulic system in the industry, you may have seen directional control valves or spool valves. There are a variety of well-known control valves in the industry such as Globe Valves.

But today’s article is about different types of control valves known as Directional Control Valves or DCVs for short. You may hear of them as solenoid valves or spool valves as well.

If you want to know how directional control valves work and how you should read and interpret their symbols, read this article to the end, or watch the following video.

Directional control valves are used both in pneumatic and hydraulic flow control systems.

So there are pneumatic directional control valves and hydraulic directional control valves. Sometimes the hydraulic directional control valves are called spool valves.

Directional Control Valve Application Example

As we're learning about the basics of the DCVs in this article and there's not much difference in their working principle and symbols, we develop our example based on a “pneumatic” system. And of course, if you learn one of them you can easily learn the other.

Let's start with a simple pneumatic circuitry.

The main power of this pneumatic system is coming from the compressed air that is supplied by a compressor.

 

If you have ever come across a pneumatic or hydraulic system in the industry, you may have seen directional control valves or spool valves. There are a variety of well-known control valves in the industry such as Globe Valves.

But today’s article is about different types of control valves known as Directional Control Valves or DCVs for short. You may hear of them as solenoid valves or spool valves as well.

If you want to know how directional control valves work and how you should read and interpret their symbols, read this article to the end, or watch the following video.

Directional control valves are used both in pneumatic and hydraulic flow control systems.

So there are pneumatic directional control valves and hydraulic directional control valves. Sometimes the hydraulic directional control valves are called spool valves.

Directional Control Valve Application Example

As we're learning about the basics of the DCVs in this article and there's not much difference in their working principle and symbols, we develop our example based on a “pneumatic” system. And of course, if you learn one of them you can easily learn the other.

Let's start with a simple pneumatic circuitry.

The main power of this pneumatic system is coming from the compressed air that is supplied by a compressor.