STANDARDS NORMS USED FOR INDUSTRIAL VALVES
General
PED Pressure Equipment Directive - Certification for the design and manufacturing
of equipment under pressure
ASME Section Welding and Brazing Qualifications
IX
API Q1 Specification for quality programs for the oil & gas industry
API 6D Specification for pipeline valves (gate, plug, ball, and check)
API 6DSS Specification for pipeline valves (gate, plug, ball, and check) in submarine
installation
API 6A Specifications for well heads and production trees in the oil & gas production
MSS-SP-25 Standard Marking System for Valves, Fittings, Flanges and Union
BS 1868 Specification for steel check valves
BS 6364 Specification for valves for cryogenic service
ISO 28291 Design, dimensions, material, fabrication, and production testing of isolation
valves for low-temperature applications
Material specifications and certifications
NACE MR0175 Corrosion resistant materials for sour oil&gas applications
NACE MR0103 Corrosion resistant materials for clean service in downstream applications
EN 10204 3.1 Material certification for the components under pressure
EN 10204 3.2 Material certification for the components under pressure made by an
independent authority
Testing standards
ISO 5208 Industrial valves — Pressure testing of metallic valves
API 598 Valve inspection and testing
FCI 70-2 Control valve seat leakage tests
FCI 70-3 Regulator seat leakage test
MSS SP-61 Pressure Testing of Steel Valves
EN 12266-1 Testing of valves (former BS 6755)
American Petroleum Institute (API)
API 526 Flanged steel safety - relief valves
API 527 Seat tightness of pressure relief valves
API 528 Safety relief valve nameplate nomenclature
API 594 Check valves: flanged, lug, wafer, and butt-welding
API 599 Metal plug valves, flanged, threaded and welding ends
API 600 Specification for valve design/construction and the material/trim
designations for steel gate valves
API 602 Gate, globe and check valves < DN 100 (NPS 4”)
API 603 Corrosion-resistant, bolted bonnet gate valves - flanged and butt-welding
ends
API 608 Class 150 and Class 300 ball valves
API 609 Lug and wafer type butterfly valves
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
B1.20.1 Pipe thread code
B16.1 Cast iron pipe flanges and flange fittings
B16.4 Gray iron threaded fittings
B16.5 Pipe flanges and flanged fittings of steel, nickel-based alloys, and other alloys
B16.9 Factory-made wrought buttwelding fittings
B16.10 Face to face and end to end dimensions of valves
B16.11 Forged fittings socket welding and threaded
B16.20 Metallic gaskets for pipe flanges ring-joint spiral-wound & jacketed
B16.24 Cast copper alloy pipe flanges and flanged fittings
B16.25 But welded ends
B16.34 Valves with flanged, threaded and welding ends
B16.42 Ductile iron pipe flanges and flanged fittings
B16.47 Large diameter steel flanges NPS 26” through 60”
B16.104 Control Valve Seat Leaking
European Industrial Valve Standards (EN)
EN 19 Marking
EN 558-1 Industrial valves - face-to-face and centre-to-face dimensions of metal valves
for use in flanged pipe systems
Part 1: PN designated valves
EN 558-2 Industrial valves - face-to-face and centre-to-face dimensions of metal valves
for use in flanged pipe systems
Part 2: Class designated valves
EN 593 Butterfly valves
EN 736-1 Terminology: Definition of types of valves
EN 736-2 Terminology: Definition of components of valves
EN 736-3 Definition of terms
EN 1092-1 Flanges and their joints, circular flanges for pipes, valves, fittings, and
accessories, PN designated
EN 1349 Industrial process control valves
EN 5211 Industrial valves — Part-turn actuator attachment
EN 12516-1 Shell design strength – Tabulation method for steel valves
EN 12516-2 Shell design strength – Calculation method for steel valves
EN 12516-3 Shell design strength – Experimental method
EN 12627 Butt weld end design
EN 12760 Socket weld end design
EN 12982 End to end dimensions for but weld end valves
EN 14141 Valves for natural gas transportation in pipelines. Performance requirements
and test
EN 14313 Petroleum and natural gas industries - Pipeline transportation systems -
Pipeline valves
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European flange standards
EN 1092-1 Steel flanges – PN designated
EN 1092-2 Cast iron flanges – PN designated
EN 1759-1 Steel flanges – class designated
Manufacturers Standardization Society (MSS)
SP-6 Standard finishes for contact faces of pipe flanges and connection end flanges
of valves and fittings
SP-44 Steel pipeline flanges
SP-45 Bypass and drain connections
SP-53 Quality standards for steel castings and forgings for valves, flanges, fittings,
and other piping components - Mag. Particle test
SP-54 Quality standards for steel castings and forgings for valves, flanges, fittings,
and other piping components - Radiographic test
SP-55 Quality standards for steel castings and forgings for valves, flanges, fittings,
and other piping components - Visual test
SP-67 Butterfly valves
SP-68 High pressure butterfly valves with offset design
SP-82 Valve Pressure Testing Methods
SP-91 Guidelines for manual operation of valves
SP-147 Quality standard for steel casting used in standard class steel valves.
Fire safety
ISO 10497 Fire type-testing requirements
API 589 Fire test for evaluation of valve stem packing
API 607 Fire safety of soft seated quarter turn valves
API 6FA Fire safety of valves according to API 6D and API 6A
API 6FB Fire safety of sealing at end connections of valves
API 6FD Fire safety of check valves
BS 6755 Specification for fire type-testing requirements
Fugitive emissions
ISO 15848-1 Industrial valves - Measurement, test, and qualification procedures for
fugitive emissions - Part 1: Classification system and qualification procedures
for type testing of valves
ISO 15848-2 Industrial valves - Measurement, test, and qualification procedures for
fugitive emissions - Part 2: Production acceptance test of valves
TA-Luft Specification for fugitive emissions of valves
API 343 Fugitive emissions from equipment leaks II: Calculation procedures for
petroleum industry facilities
EPA Recommendations of the Environmental Protection Act (USA)
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