{"id":57080,"date":"2026-09-30T15:25:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zobai.com\/?p=57080"},"modified":"2026-09-30T16:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:51:24","slug":"how-heating-medium-conditions-affect-jacketed-safety-valves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zobai.com\/zh\/blog\/how-heating-medium-conditions-affect-jacketed-safety-valves\/","title":{"rendered":"\u52a0\u70ed\u4ecb\u8d28\u5de5\u51b5\u5bf9\u5939\u5957\u5f0f\u5b89\u5168\u9600\u7684\u5f71\u54cd"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.zobai-sv-page{\n  --z-primary:#0f665b;\n  --z-primary-dark:#084c45;\n  --z-accent:#15947f;\n  --z-text:#20272d;\n  --z-muted:#5d6870;\n  --z-line:#dce6e3;\n  --z-soft:#f3f8f6;\n  --z-soft-strong:#e8f3ef;\n  --z-warning:#fff8e8;\n  --z-radius-sm:8px;\n  --z-radius-md:14px;\n  --z-radius-lg:20px;\n  --z-shadow:0 10px 30px rgba(22,52,48,.08);\n  --z-container:1120px;\n  --z-reading:820px;\n  max-width:var(--z-container);\n  margin:0 auto;\n  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.zobai-sv-page .zobai-table th,\n  .zobai-sv-page .zobai-table td{\n    padding:12px 13px;\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  .zobai-sv-page .zobai-placeholder-box{\n    min-height:200px;\n    padding:20px;\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  .zobai-sv-page .zobai-figure-note{\n    font-size:.88rem;\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  .zobai-sv-page .zobai-cta{\n    padding:22px 20px;\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  .zobai-sv-page .zobai-btn{\n    width:100%;\n  }\n}<\/p>\n<p>@media (max-width:420px){\n  .zobai-sv-page{\n    padding-left:16px;\n    padding-right:16px;\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  .zobai-sv-page .zobai-placeholder-box{\n    min-height:190px;\n    aspect-ratio:auto;\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  .zobai-sv-page .zobai-table{\n    min-width:640px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n<article class=\"zobai-sv-page\">\n<header class=\"zobai-hero\">\n<p class=\"zobai-eyebrow\">Jacketed Safety Valve Engineering<\/p>\n<p class=\"zobai-lead\">Jacketed safety valve heating medium conditions must be specified separately from process conditions. A jacketed safety valve is not thermally effective simply because a jacket is present. The heating medium must deliver enough usable heat to maintain the process medium in the required condition, while the jacket, valve components, and process fluid remain within their verified limits. For a steam-heated jacket, this means considering the actual steam condition at the jacket together with condensation and condensate removal. For a circulating liquid heating medium, temperature, circulation, and fluid properties become part of the thermal picture.<\/p>\n<p>The first specification mistake to avoid is treating three different quantities as if they were the same: <strong>process-medium temperature, heating-medium temperature, and relieving temperature<\/strong>. They belong to different engineering questions. The jacket is a separate thermal utility circuit. It helps control the thermal condition of the process medium around the valve body and flow passage; it does not determine the safety valve&#8217;s set pressure, required relieving capacity, or certified capacity.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<section id=\"separate-heating-circuit\">\n<h2>\u5939\u5957\u5f0f\u5b89\u5168\u9600\u7684\u52a0\u70ed\u4ecb\u8d28\u5de5\u51b5<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/zobai.com\/zh\/safety-valves\/jacketed-safety-valves\/\">\u5939\u5957\u5f0f\u5b89\u5168\u9600<\/a> contains two functions that have to be specified separately. The process side carries the protected medium through the safety valve. The jacket side carries the heating utility around a region of the valve body that needs thermal conditioning.<\/p>\n<p>That distinction matters because each side has different engineering inputs. On the process side, engineers are concerned with the protected medium, operating and relieving temperatures, set pressure, required relieving capacity, back pressure, materials, and the governing relief scenario. On the jacket side, the questions are about the heating medium, its supply condition, how it returns or drains, how consistently it circulates, and whether the jacket and valve assembly can tolerate those conditions.<\/p>\n<p>ZOBAI&#8217;s current ZBNJ product catalog illustrates this separation directly. The ZBNJ series is shown with a jacket or body interlayer around the valve and separate connections for circulating steam; the catalog also identifies an optional double-steam-flushing arrangement. These features establish the current product-family evidence for a steam-heated jacket, but they do not establish a universal jacket pressure or temperature rating for every ZBNJ configuration.<\/p>\n<p>This is why the heating-medium specification should not be copied from the valve&#8217;s process-side temperature or set-pressure table. A process inlet temperature limit, a jacket utility temperature, and a relieving temperature are different quantities with different engineering meanings.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"zobai-figure\" data-image-status=\"complete\" data-upload-status=\"final-upload-verified\" data-image-slot=\"image-01-process-vs-jacket-circuit\">\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/zobai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jacketed-safety-valve-process-utility-circuits.webp\" alt=\"Heating medium conditions for a jacketed safety valve shown in a utility circuit separate from the protected process relief path.\" title=\"How Heating Medium Conditions Affect Jacketed Safety Valves - Engineering Diagram 1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"wp-image-57117\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zobai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jacketed-safety-valve-process-utility-circuits.webp 1200w, https:\/\/zobai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jacketed-safety-valve-process-utility-circuits-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/zobai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jacketed-safety-valve-process-utility-circuits-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/zobai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jacketed-safety-valve-process-utility-circuits-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/zobai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jacketed-safety-valve-process-utility-circuits-16x12.webp 16w, https:\/\/zobai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jacketed-safety-valve-process-utility-circuits-400x300.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption>The process relief path and jacket utility circuit are separate systems with different pressure, temperature and verification requirements.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"define-thermal-objective\">\n<h2>Define the Thermal Objective Before Choosing the Heating Medium<\/h2>\n<p>The correct starting point is not, \u201cWhat steam pressure should I use?\u201d It is, \u201cWhat condition must the process medium maintain at the valve?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jacket heating is most relevant when cooling materially changes the behavior of the process fluid. Depending on the service, the concern may be increasing viscosity, crystallization, wax formation, solidification, or another temperature-dependent change that makes the medium harder to move through the relief path.<\/p>\n<p>The required thermal condition therefore comes from the process fluid and the operating scenario. An engineer should know, as applicable, the normal process temperature, the temperature below which the medium becomes difficult to handle, its viscosity trend, solidification or crystallization behavior, ambient exposure, and the effect of insulation.<\/p>\n<p>The governing condition may also differ between normal operation and other states. A valve body that remains warm during continuous process operation may cool during a long standby period, startup, shutdown, or temporary loss of heating utility. Whether those states matter depends on the actual process. They should not be converted into a universal jacket-sizing rule.<\/p>\n<p>A representative example illustrates the point. Consider a process fluid that remains mobile at its normal operating temperature but becomes progressively more viscous as it cools. While hot process fluid continuously reaches the valve connection, little auxiliary heat may appear necessary. During an extended standby period, however, the trapped or slow-moving material around the valve can cool toward ambient conditions. The heating requirement is therefore defined by the process-medium condition that must be preserved\u2014not by an arbitrary preference for a hotter jacket.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zobai-rule\">\n<p><strong>Define the process-side thermal requirement first. Then determine the jacket utility condition needed to support it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"heating-medium-temperature-pressure\">\n<h2>Heating-Medium Temperature and Pressure Determine the Available Heating Condition<\/h2>\n<p>Once the thermal objective is understood, the heating medium can be evaluated. Its identity matters because different utilities transfer heat in different ways.<\/p>\n<h3>Steam conditions<\/h3>\n<p>For saturated steam, pressure and saturation temperature are linked. Steam entering a colder heating jacket can condense and release latent heat to the jacket wall. The steam condition actually established in the jacket therefore matters to the available heating temperature and heat transfer.<\/p>\n<p>This is why specifying only an upstream steam-header pressure can be incomplete. Control devices, pressure losses, return conditions, and the operating state of the jacket can make the actual condition at the valve different from the nominal header condition.<\/p>\n<p>Steam state also matters. Superheated steam should not automatically be treated as thermally equivalent to condensing saturated steam at the same nominal description. A steam-heated jacket should therefore be specified in terms that allow the actual utility condition at the jacket to be understood rather than reduced to a single pressure number.<\/p>\n<p>There is no defensible universal steam pressure for all jacketed safety valves. The appropriate condition depends on the required process temperature, the heat-transfer path, ambient losses, jacket construction, and the permissible limits of the selected valve.<\/p>\n<h3>Hot water or heat-transfer-fluid conditions<\/h3>\n<p>A circulating liquid heating system follows a different mechanism. There is no steam-condensation cycle supplying latent heat in the jacket. The available bulk temperature of the heating fluid, its circulation, its physical properties, and the temperature drop through the circuit all influence heat delivery.<\/p>\n<p>This makes circulation a first-order design input. A heating-fluid supply temperature can look adequate on a datasheet while the actual jacket underperforms because circulation is insufficient or the return condition is not what the design assumed.<\/p>\n<p>Some jacketed safety-valve designs from other manufacturers permit heat-transfer oil or other heating liquids. That general engineering fact should not be converted into a ZOBAI product claim. Current ZOBAI ZBNJ evidence confirms circulated steam; the use of thermal oil, hot water, or another heating medium for a particular ZBNJ valve remains subject to product confirmation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zobai-rule\">\n<p><strong>What thermal condition does this utility establish in the jacket under the actual operating and return conditions?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"supply-return-drainage-control\">\n<h2>Supply, Return, Drainage, and Control Decide Whether Heat Is Actually Delivered<\/h2>\n<p>Heating-medium supply data describe only one end of the system. Actual heat transfer depends on whether the utility can move through the jacket and leave it in the intended condition.<\/p>\n<p>For a steam-heated jacket, steam must reach the heat-transfer surface and the resulting condensate must be removed appropriately. If condensate accumulates, the effective steam-side heat-transfer condition can deteriorate. A steam jacket can therefore have an apparently adequate supply condition while still heating poorly because the condensate side of the circuit is not functioning as intended.<\/p>\n<p>This is one reason jacket specifications should distinguish the steam supply from the return or drainage condition. The relevant engineering questions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What steam condition reaches the jacket?<\/li>\n<li>Can condensate leave the jacket as intended?<\/li>\n<li>Is the return pressure compatible with effective drainage?<\/li>\n<li>How is the heating condition controlled?<\/li>\n<li>What happens during startup, shutdown, or loss of the steam supply?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These questions do not imply a universal steam-trap arrangement or a fixed condensate-back-pressure limit. Those decisions belong to the actual utility-system design and the selected valve&#8217;s installation requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The equivalent issue for a liquid heating medium is circulation. The engineer needs to know whether sufficient heating fluid passes through the jacket to maintain the intended thermal condition. Supply temperature without circulation information is not a complete description of the heating duty.<\/p>\n<p>Control philosophy also matters. A jacket that receives uncontrolled maximum-temperature utility whenever the plant header is available may not provide the same process result as a jacket whose heating condition is regulated around a defined thermal objective.<\/p>\n<p>The broader lesson is straightforward: <strong>nominal supply temperature is not the same as demonstrated jacket performance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"zobai-figure\" data-image-status=\"complete\" data-upload-status=\"final-upload-verified\" data-image-slot=\"image-02-steam-supply-condensate-return\">\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/zobai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jacketed-safety-valve-steam-condensate-circuit.webp\" alt=\"Conceptual steam-jacket circuit showing steam supply, condensation around a safety valve and condensate return separate from the process path.\" title=\"How Heating Medium Conditions Affect Jacketed Safety Valves - Engineering Diagram 2\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"wp-image-57118\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zobai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jacketed-safety-valve-steam-condensate-circuit.webp 1200w, https:\/\/zobai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jacketed-safety-valve-steam-condensate-circuit-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/zobai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jacketed-safety-valve-steam-condensate-circuit-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/zobai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jacketed-safety-valve-steam-condensate-circuit-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/zobai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jacketed-safety-valve-steam-condensate-circuit-16x12.webp 16w, https:\/\/zobai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jacketed-safety-valve-steam-condensate-circuit-400x300.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption>Useful jacket heating depends on the complete steam and condensate circuit, including supply, drainage, return and control rather than nominal header temperature alone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"heating-failure-boundaries\">\n<h2>Too Little Heat and Unsuitable Heating Create Different Failure Boundaries<\/h2>\n<p>A useful jacket specification has to consider both sides of the thermal boundary.<\/p>\n<p>When a process medium becomes more viscous, crystallizes, or solidifies as it cools, inadequate jacket heating can allow material in the valve passage or nozzle region to move toward that unfavorable condition. The practical consequence can range from increased resistance or deposits to restriction of the relief path or impaired valve movement, depending on the medium, geometry, degree of cooling, and valve condition.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence supports this directional relationship, but not a universal numerical penalty. It would be inappropriate to state that a given reduction in jacket temperature produces a fixed loss of relieving capacity, or that insufficient heating will always cause the valve to fail to open. Those outcomes require service-specific evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The opposite assumption is also unsafe: more heat is not automatically better.<\/p>\n<p>Once the process medium has been kept within its required thermal condition, additional heating may offer no useful benefit. The heating condition still has to remain compatible with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the process medium;<\/li>\n<li>the jacket pressure and temperature boundary;<\/li>\n<li>the heating fluid itself;<\/li>\n<li>body and trim materials;<\/li>\n<li>gaskets, seals, or soft-seat materials where present;<\/li>\n<li>other temperature-sensitive valve components in the selected configuration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The article should not turn those possibilities into generic failure predictions. For example, polymerization, coking, seal degradation, spring effects, or corrosion can be real engineering concerns in particular services, but they cannot be assumed for every jacketed valve merely because the heating temperature is high.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zobai-rule\">\n<p><strong>Use enough controlled heat to maintain the required process condition, but keep the utility within every verified process, jacket, material, and valve-component limit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"match-jacket-to-valve-limits\">\n<h2>Match Jacket Conditions to the Valve Construction and Verified Limits<\/h2>\n<p>The process thermal requirement and the product operating envelope have to be satisfied at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>A jacket may need to withstand heating-medium pressure, temperature, cycling, and the applicable connection loads. The valve itself may also contain components whose permissible temperature depends on material or configuration. These boundaries are product-specific.<\/p>\n<p>This is particularly important when reading a safety-valve catalog. A table that gives permissible valve inlet temperature, set-pressure range, body material, or spring selection does not automatically define the permissible condition inside a heating jacket.<\/p>\n<p>The current ZOBAI ZBNJ catalog provides useful product identity: it confirms the jacketed series, shows the body interlayer, identifies circulated steam connections, and provides model\/material information. It does <strong>\u4e0d<\/strong>, in the currently reviewed pages, provide a separately confirmed universal ZBNJ jacket maximum steam pressure or jacket maximum temperature. Those utility limits therefore remain selected-model confirmation items.<\/p>\n<h3>A jacketed valve is not automatically a high-temperature valve<\/h3>\n<p>This distinction prevents another common specification error.<\/p>\n<p>A jacketed valve addresses a process-side thermal-conditioning problem. A <a href=\"https:\/\/zobai.com\/zh\/blog\/high-temperature-safety-valve-selection-guide\/\">high-temperature safety-valve selection<\/a> addresses the ability of the valve assembly and its materials\/components to operate at the relevant process and relieving temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Those requirements can overlap, but neither proves the other.<\/p>\n<p>A valve can need a heating jacket because its process medium solidifies at a comparatively moderate temperature. Conversely, a high-temperature relief application may require specialized materials or component arrangements even when no jacket is needed.<\/p>\n<p>For the selected valve, engineers should therefore verify the jacket utility limits and the <a href=\"https:\/\/zobai.com\/zh\/standards\/pressure-temperature-ratings\/\">process-side temperature limits<\/a> separately.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"specify-before-selection\">\n<h2>What to Specify Before Selecting or Quoting a Jacketed Safety Valve<\/h2>\n<p>A technically useful inquiry should contain two groups of data: the relief-service information that defines the safety-valve duty and the thermal-utility information that defines the jacket duty.<\/p>\n<p>The following checklist is intentionally separated so that heating conditions are not mistaken for pressure-relief sizing inputs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zobai-table-wrap\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Jacketed safety valve specification inputs\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<table class=\"zobai-table\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"col\">Information to provide<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">\u91cd\u8981\u6027<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Process medium and relevant composition<\/td>\n<td>Establishes fluid behavior, material compatibility, and whether cooling can create viscosity, crystallization, or solidification concerns<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Normal operating temperature<\/td>\n<td>Defines the usual process thermal condition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u6cc4\u653e\u6e29\u5ea6<\/td>\n<td>Belongs to the pressure-relief case and may differ from the jacket utility temperature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Minimum acceptable process-fluid condition, where known<\/td>\n<td>Defines the actual purpose of heating rather than an arbitrary jacket setpoint<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u6574\u5b9a\u538b\u529b<\/td>\n<td>Required for safety-valve selection; it is not a heating-medium pressure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Required relieving capacity or calculation basis<\/td>\n<td>Establishes the relief duty independently of the jacket<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Back pressure and discharge conditions where relevant<\/td>\n<td>May affect valve configuration and performance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Heating-medium identity<\/td>\n<td>Distinguishes steam from circulating liquid or another approved utility<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Heating-medium supply temperature<\/td>\n<td>Defines one part of the available heating condition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Heating-medium supply pressure<\/td>\n<td>Essential for steam-state definition and for checking jacket utility limits<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Steam condition, if steam is used<\/td>\n<td>Distinguishes the actual thermal state rather than relying on nominal header data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Condensate return\/drainage condition<\/td>\n<td>Helps determine whether a steam jacket can maintain effective heat transfer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Circulation\/return data for a liquid heating medium<\/td>\n<td>Helps establish whether heat can actually be delivered through the jacket<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Normal and maximum utility conditions<\/td>\n<td>Allows the jacket and valve limits to be checked<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Startup, standby, or loss-of-heating requirement where relevant<\/td>\n<td>Identifies thermal states that may not be represented by normal operation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ambient and insulation conditions where relevant<\/td>\n<td>Affect heat loss and required duty<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Required jacket connection arrangement<\/td>\n<td>Must match the selected product and utility system<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Project code, material, and documentation requirements<\/td>\n<td>Establish project-specific acceptance boundaries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>The checklist is not a substitute for a relief calculation. Even when the heating circuit is fully defined, the safety valve must still be selected against the actual protected equipment, governing relief scenario, set pressure, required relieving capacity, relieving conditions, back pressure, applicable code or standard, and manufacturer data.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zobai-boundary\">\n<h3>Engineering boundary<\/h3>\n<p>Heating-medium selection is a service-condition decision, not a stand-alone proof that the pressure-relief system is adequate. Jacket heating does not establish the governing relief scenario, required relieving rate, required flow area, certified or documented capacity, or final project acceptance. Those must be verified through the applicable pressure-relief design process and the selected valve&#8217;s current manufacturer data.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, exact jacket utility limits should be taken from the selected product documentation rather than inferred from a general valve temperature or pressure table.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you are preparing a jacketed safety-valve inquiry, provide the process-side relief conditions and the jacket-side utility conditions as separate data sets. That gives the engineer enough information to evaluate whether the heating concept, valve configuration, materials, pressure-relief capacity, and selected product limits are mutually compatible.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"zobai-cta\" aria-label=\"Engineering review\">\n<p><strong>Send Your Process and Jacket Conditions for Engineering Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Provide the process medium, normal and relieving temperatures, set pressure, required relieving capacity or calculation basis, heating-medium type, supply pressure and temperature, condensate\/return or circulation condition, back pressure where relevant, and applicable project requirements. ZOBAI can review which additional product and jacket data must be confirmed before quotation.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zobai-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/zobai.com\/zh\/ask-an-engineer\/\">Request an engineering review<\/a><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\n    \"@context\": \"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\n    \"@type\": \"TechArticle\",\n    \"headline\": \"How Heating Medium Conditions Affect Jacketed Safety Valves\",\n    \"description\": \"Learn how heating-medium temperature, pressure, steam condition, condensate return and circulation affect jacketed safety valves and RFQ decisions.\",\n    \"mainEntityOfPage\": {\n        \"@type\": \"WebPage\",\n        \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/zobai.com\\\/blog\\\/how-heating-medium-conditions-affect-jacketed-safety-valves\\\/\"\n    },\n    \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/zobai.com\\\/blog\\\/how-heating-medium-conditions-affect-jacketed-safety-valves\\\/\",\n    \"inLanguage\": \"en\",\n    \"publisher\": {\n        \"@type\": \"Organization\",\n        \"name\": \"ZOBAI Valve Co., Ltd.\",\n        \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/zobai.com\\\/\"\n    }\n}<\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u4e86\u89e3\u52a0\u70ed\u4ecb\u8d28\u6e29\u5ea6\u3001\u538b\u529b\u3001\u84b8\u6c7d\u5de5\u51b5\u3001\u51b7\u51dd\u6c34\u56de\u6d41\u53ca\u5faa\u73af\u5bf9\u5939\u5957\u5f0f\u5b89\u5168\u9600\u53ca\u8be2\u4ef7\u51b3\u7b56\u7684\u5f71\u54cd\u3002.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-installation-maintenance-troubleshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zobai.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zobai.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zobai.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zobai.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zobai.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57080"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zobai.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57133,"href":"https:\/\/zobai.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57080\/revisions\/57133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zobai.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zobai.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zobai.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zobai.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}