40 years experience in fluid handling

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Market leader in purpose built level control equipment.

TAV ENGINEERING
The company with almost 40 years experience in level control, designs and manufactures high quality purpose built level control equipment, used in the petrochemical, oil, hydraulics, railway, coal, marine, power, chemical, waste water, food, & general engineering industries. Our products are quality designed and built to meet the challenges of liquid level control, where reliability is paramount.

Quality & Approvals
Quality Management BS EN ISO 9001:2000 - Certificate No 911268 L.R.Q.A approved. Hazardous Area - SIRA Certification Service, EC Type examination certificate No 01ATEX2265.

Applications
Our products are relied upon world-wide for applications such as:-

  • Storage tank overfill protection
  • Internal roof storage tank alarms
  • Vapour recovery tank switches
  • Oil water interface detection
  • Airport ancillary equipment
  • Railway fuel & water tanks
  • Marine tanker checkable high alarms
  • Floating roof storage tank alarms
  • High and low level controls
  • Pump seal protection
  • Water and gas turbine plant
  • Transformer gas & level detection switches
  • Marine water & fuel tanks, bilge alarms
  • Chambered switches for process control

The company is a leading manufacturer of liquid level equipment fitted with manual checking facilities, this allows the level switch to be checked for correct operation in situ.

The company has also established itself as UK distributors of solids level measurement equipment, fuelling hoses and control equipment used in the aviation and chemical industries.


OUR ATEX SPECIFICATIONS ARE SHOWN BELOW
Floatswitch, Displacer, Temperature, & Mechanically Linked Devices certified to the harmonised standards EN50014: 1997 + Amds 1 & 2 and EN 50018: 2000 with respect to Group 11C apparatus and Temperature Classification T4 (Tamb = -50°C to + 100°C), EN 50281-1-1: 1998 with respect to Dust tight apparatus, EN 50284: 1999 and assessment of the essential health and safety requirements in pursuance of a Type Examination Certificate to the European Community Directive 94/9/EC with respect to Group 11 Category I/2 GD Apparatus.
CEI IEC 1010-1 - EN 50281-1-1 : 1998 - EN 50284 : 1999 Many of these products can be designed to conform to the Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/EC

European Directives  
94/9/EC - ATEX
73/23/EEC - Amended by 93/68/EEC
PRESSURE EQUIPMENT DIRECTIVE
97/23/EC

STANDARD PRODUCT INFORMATION
TAV ENGINEERING FLOAT SWITCHES
Enclosure’s – Aluminium Alloy anodised IP 65 - Stainless Steel 316L IP68 Standard conduit entry - M20 x 1.5

CE marking
TAV standard switches are CE marked and are covered by a declaration of conformance.
Special equipment & OEM switches may be covered by a declaration of incorporation.

Standard screwed entry sizes G1.0" G1.25" up to G2.5" All international screw sizes are available on request.

Standard flange size ANSI 1.50" RF All international flange sizes are available on request.

Standard floats:-
High specification non connected cell PVC foam. High specification, high temperature non connected cell nitrile foam. Stainless Steel 316L

Standard materials for wetted parts are.
Brass or Stainless Steel 316L
Standard reed switches.
Type B-SPST - 120 Watt resisitive @ 250 volts AC or DC max Amps 3.0
Type C-SPST - 250 Watt resistive @ 250 volts AC or DC max Amps 3.0
Type D-SPST - 15 Watt resistive @ 125 volts AC or DC max Amps 0.5
Type E-SPST - 500 Watt inductive or resistive @ 250 volts AC , max inrush 10 Amps Type
F-SPDT - 40 Watt DC, 60 Watt AC, resistive @ 220 volts max Amps 1.0
For specification and other reeds held in stock ask for leaflet number 033


 
     
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