OMB Valves : Intrudction to Valves - Standard

Standards & Codes

The valve business has been regulated by a number of
standards issued primary by national bodies, with a
prevalence of American institutions (API, NACE,
ANSI, ASME).

In the past few years ISO is incorporating all international

standards into a uniform body of rules.

The ISO denomination is still not used widely.

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In the following page we identify traditionally used standards
even if already superseded by an ISO standard.
A red code indicate a superseded standard

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OMB Valves : Intrudction to Valves - Standard

Standards & Codes

ISO International Standardization Organization

API American Petroleum Institute

ASTM American Society for Testing and Material

ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ANSI American National Standard Institute

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MSS Manufacturers Standardization Society of the Valve
and Fitting Industry

NACE National Association of Corrosion Engineers

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BS British Standards Institute
ISO – International Standard Org. www.iso.org

• ISO 5208:1993 Industrial valves -- Pressure testing of valves

• ISO 5209:1977 General purpose industrial valves -- Marking
• ISO 5752:1982 Metal valves for use in flanged pipe systems –
Face-to-face and centre-to-face dimensions
• ISO 5996:1984 Cast iron gate valves
• ISO 6002:1992 Bolted bonnet steel gate valves
• ISO 12149:1999 Bolted bonnet steel globe valves for general-purpose applications
• ISO 7121:1986 Flanged steel ball valves
• ISO 7259:1988 Predominantly key-operated cast iron gate valves for underground use
• ISO 10434:2004 Bolted bonnet steel gate valves for the petroleum, petrochemical and
allied industries

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• ISO 10497:2004 Testing of valves -- Fire type-testing requirements
• ISO 10631:1994 Metallic butterfly valves for general purposes
• ISO 12149:1999 Bolted bonnet steel globe valves for general-purpose applications
• ISO 15761:2002 Steel gate, globe and check valves for sizes DN 100 and smaller,
for the petroleum and natural gas industries
• ISO 15848-1:2006 Industrial valves –- Measurement, test and qualification procedures

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for fugitive emission
Part 1: Classification system and qualification procedures
for type testing of valves
• ISO 17292:2004 Metal ball valves for petroleum, petrochemical and allied industries
ISO – International Standard Org. www.iso.org

ISO 10423:2003
Petroleum and natural gas industries - Drilling and production equipment -
Wellhead and christmas tree equipment
specifies requirements and gives recommendations for the performance,
dimensional and functional interchangeability, design, materials, testing,
inspection, welding, marking, handling, storing, shipment, purchasing,
repair and remanufacture of wellhead and christmas tree equipment for
use in the petroleum and natural gas industries.

eq. API6A

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ISO – International Standard Org. www.iso.org

ISO 14313:1999
Petroleum and natural gas industries -- Pipeline transportation systems --
Pipeline valves

eq. API6D

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ISO – International Standard Org. www.iso.org

ISO 15156
NACE MR0175, Petroleum and natural gas industries—Materials for
use in H2S-containing environments in oil and gas production
Includes new addenda for 2005! NACE MR0175/ISO 15156 gives requirements and recommendations for the
selection and qualification of carbon and low-alloy steels, corrosion-resistant alloys, and other alloys for service
in equipment used in oil and natural gas production and natural gas treatment plants in H2S-containing
environments, whose failure could pose a risk to the health and safety of the public and personnel or to the
environment. It can be applied to help to avoid costly corrosion damage to the equipment itself. NACE
MR0175/ISO 15156 consists of three standards and four technical corrigenda (addenda), available through
NACE as a complete package: Part 1: General principles for selection of cracking-resistant materials Part 2:
Cracking-resistant carbon and low alloy steels, and the use of cast irons Part 3: Cracking-resistant CRAs

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(corrosion-resistant alloys) and other alloys Part 1, Technical Corrigendum 1 Part 2, Technical Corrigendum 1
Part 3, Technical Corrigendum 1 Part 3, Technical Corrigendum 2 Key words: aluminum alloys, austenitic
stainless steels, bolts, carbon steels, cast iron, ceramic coatings, cobalt alloys, cold working, copper alloys,
fabrication, ferritic stainless steels, free-machining steels, hardness, hydrogen sulfide, identification marking,
low-alloy steels, martensitic stainless steels, metals, oilfield production equipment, overlays, precipitation-
hardening steels, pressure gauges, protective coatings, sealing rings, shot peening, sour environments, springs,
stainless steels, sulfide stress cracking, valves, welding.

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API - American Petroleum Institute www.api.org

• API 6D Specification for Pipeline Valves

• API 6A Specification for Wellhead and Christmas Tree Equipment
• API 6FA Specification for Fire Test for Valves
• API 591 User Acceptance of Refinery Valves
• API 598 Valve Inspection and Testing
• API 600 Steel Gate Valves

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• API 602 Compact Carbon Steel Gate Valves
• API 603 Cast, Corrosion Resistant Gate Valves
• API 17D Specification for Subsea Wellhead and Christmas Tree
Equipment

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API - American Petroleum Institute www.api.org

Spec 6A
Specification for Wellhead and Christmas Tree Equipment
(includes Errata dated September 2004)
Specifies requirements and gives recommendations for the performance,
dimensional and functional interchangeability, design, materials,
testing, inspection, welding, marking, handling, storing, shipment
and purchasing, of wellhead and christmas tree equipment for use in

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the petroleum and natural gas industries.
This edition of API Spec 6A is the modified national adoption of ISO
10423:2003. An informative annex is included covering the requirements
of the API Monogram Program for equipment covered in the
specification.

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19th Edition / July 2004 / Effective Date: February 2005
API - American Petroleum Institute www.api.org

Spec 6A718
Specification of Nickel Base Alloy 718 (UNS N07718) for Oil and Gas
Drilling and Production Equipment
Provides specification requirements for Nickel Base Alloy 718 (UNS
N07718) that are intended to supplement the existing requirements of
API Spec 6A and ISO 10423. These additional specification requirements
include detailed process control requirements and detailed testing

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requirements. Pages: 17
1st Edition / March 2004 / Product Number: G6A7181

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API - American Petroleum Institute www.api.org

Spec 6D / ISO 14313

Specification for Pipeline Valves
Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries—Pipeline Transportation
Systems—Pipeline Valves
API Specification 6D is the (proposed) national adoption of ISO 14313:
1999 MOD. This Standard specifies requirements and gives
recommendations for the design, manufacturing, testing and
documentation of ball, check, gate and plug valves for application in
pipeline systems.

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Valves for pressure ratings exceeding PN 420 (Class 2500) are not covered
by this Standard. Annex A of this Spec 6D provides guidelines to
assist the purchaser with valve type selection and specification of specific
requirements when ordering valves. Annex E provides information on
API Monogram Licensing requirements. Annex F includes the technical

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modifications and editorial changes.
22nd Edition / January 2002 / Effective Date: July 1, 2002
API - American Petroleum Institute www.api.org

Spec 6FA
Fire Test for Valves
Covers the requirements for testing and evaluating the performance of
API Spec 6A and Spec 6D valves when exposed to specifically defined
fire conditions.
3rd Edition / April 1999 /

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API - American Petroleum Institute www.api.org

RP 591
Process Valve Qualification Procedure
Provides recommendations for evaluation of a manufacturer’s valve
construction and quality assurance program for the purpose of
determining
a manufacturer’s capability to provide new valves manufactured
in accordance with the applicable API standards listed in Section 2.

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Qualification of valves under this recommended practice is “manufacturing
facility specific” and does not cover valves manufactured by
other manufacturing facilities, whether owned by the same manufacturer
or a third party. Pages: 9

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3rd Edition / September 2003
API - American Petroleum Institute www.api.org

Std 598
Valve Inspection and Testing
Covers inspection, examination, supplementary examinations, and
pressure test requirements for resilient-seated, nonmetallic-seated (for
example, ceramic), and metal-to-metal-seated valves of the gate, globe,
plug, ball, check, and butterfly types.
API Std 598 supplements the API standards that reference it, but it may

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also be applied to other types of valves by agreement between the
purchaser
and the valve manufacturer.
8th Edition / May 2004

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API - American Petroleum Institute www.api.org

API 600/ISO 10434

Bolted Bonnet Steel Gate Valves for Petroleum and Natural Gas
Industries—Modified National Adoption
(ANSI/API Std 600-2001)
ANSI/API Standard 600 specifies the requirements for a heavy duty
series of bolted bonnet steel gate valves for petroleum refinery and
related applications where corrosion, erosion and other service conditions

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indicate a need for full port openings, heavy wall sections and
extra large stem diameters.
11th Edition / October 2001

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API - American Petroleum Institute www.api.org

Std 602/ISO 15761

Steel Gate, Globe and Check Valves for Sizes DN 100 and Smaller for
the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries
Covers threaded-end, socket-welding-end, butt-welding-end, and
flanged-end compact carbon steel gate valves in sizes NPS 4 and
smaller.
8th Edition / January 2005

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API - American Petroleum Institute www.api.org

Std 607/ISO 10497

Fire Test for Soft-Seated Quarter-Turn Valves
Specifies fire type-testing requirements and a fire type-test method for
confirming the pressure-containing capability of a valve under pressure
during and after the fire test. It does not cover the testing
requirements for valve actuators other than manually operated gear
boxes or similar mechanisms when these form part of the normal

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valve assembly. Other types of valve actuators (e.g. electrical, pneumatic
or hydraulic) may need special protection to operate in the
environment considered in this valve test, and the fire testing of such
actuators is outside the scope of this Standard. Pages: 16

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5th Edition / June 2005
API - American Petroleum Institute www.api.org

Std 608
Metal Ball Valves—Flanged, Threaded and Butt-Welding Ends
Covers metal ball valves used in on-off service that have butt-welding of
flanged ends for nominal pipe size NPS 1/2 through NPS 12 and
threaded or socket-welding ends for sizes NPS 1/2 through NPS 2,
corresponding
to the nominal pipe sizes in ASME B36.10M. Also covers additional

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requirements for ball valves that are otherwise in full
conformance to the requirements of ASME B16.34, Standard Class.
Pages: 6
3rd Edition / August 2002

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API - American Petroleum Institute www.api.org

Std 622
Type Testing of Process Valve Packing for Fugitive Emissions
This API Standard specifies the requirements for comparative testing of
block valve stem packing for process applications where fugitive emissions
are a consideration. Packing(s) shall be suitable for use at –20
degrees F. to 1000 degrees F. (–29 degrees C. to 538 degrees C). Factors
affecting fugitive emissions performance that are considered by

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this Standard include temperature, pressure, thermal cycling and
mechanical cycling.
1st Edition / to be published Q1, 2006

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ASME — American Society of Mech. Eng.

Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code

• Section II Materials
• Section III Rules for Construction of Nuclear Power Plant
Components
• Section V Non-destructive Examination

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• Section VIII Rules for Construction of Pressure Vessels
• Section IX Welding and Brazing Qualifications
• Section XI Rules for In-service Inspection of Nuclear Power Plant
Components

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ANSI American Nat’l Standards Ins. www.ansi.org

ASME – ANSI
B16.34 Valves 2 Flanged, Threaded, and Buttwelded End

B16.10 Face-to-Face and End-to-End Dimensions of Valves

B16.5 Pipe Flanges and Flanged Fittings

B16.25 Buttwelded Ends

B16.11

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Forged Fittings, Socket Welding and Threaded

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BSI — British Standards Institution

• BS 1414 Steel Wedge Gate Valves

• BS 1868 Steel Check Valves
• BS 1873 Steel Globe Valves
• BS 5351 Steel Ball Valves
• BS 5352 Steel Wedge Gate, Globe, Check Valves, 50mm ISO15761
and Smaller
• BS 6364 Valves for Cryogenic Service

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• BS 6755 Testing of Valves

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MSS — Manufacturers Standardization
Society of the Valve and Fitting Industry
MSS SP-6 Contact Faces of Pipe Flanges

MSS SP-25 Standard Marking System for Valves, Fittings, Flanges

MSS SP-55 Quality Standard for Steel Castings (visual method)

MSS SP-61 Pressure Testing of Steel Valves

MSS SP-72 Ball Valves with Flanged or BW Ends for General Service

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MSS SP-117 Bellows Seals for Globe and Gate Valves

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MSS — Manufacturers Standardization
Society of the Valve and Fitting Industry
• MSS SP-6
Standard finishes for contact faces of pipe flanges of valves and fittings
• MSS SP-9
Spot facing for bronze , iron and steel flanges
• MSS SP-25
Standard marking system for valves, fittings, flanges and unions
• MSS SP-42
Class 150 corrosion resistant gate, globe, angle and check valves with flanged and butt
weld ends
• MSS SP-54
Quality standard for steel castings - radiographic inspection method for valves , flange,

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fittings and other piping components
• MSS SP-55
Quality standard for steel castings for valves, flanges and fittings and other piping
components
• MSS SP-60
Connecting flange joint between tapping sleeves and tapping valves

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MSS — Manufacturers Standardization
Society of the Valve and Fitting Industry
• MSS SP-61
Hydrostatic testing of steel valves
• MSS SP-67
Butterfly valves
• MSS SP-70
Cast iron gate valves , flanged and threaded ends
• MSS SP-71
Cast iron swing check valves, flanged and threaded ends
• MSS SP-72
Ball valves with flanged or butt - welding ends for general service
• MSS SP-78

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Cast iron plug valves
• MSS SP-80
Bronze Gate, globe angle and check valves
• MSS SP-82
Valves pressure testing methods
• MSS SP-84

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Steel valves socket welding and threaded ends
• MSS SP-86
Metric data in standards for valves, flanges and fittings
NACE — National Association of Corrosion
www.nace.org
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MR0175 Petroleum and natural gas industries—Materials for
ISO 15156 use in H2S-containing environments in oil and gas
production
Includes new addenda for 2005! NACE MR0175/ISO 15156 gives requirements and recommendations for the selection and
qualification of carbon and low-alloy steels, corrosion-resistant alloys, and other alloys for service in equipment used in oil and
natural gas production and natural gas treatment plants in H2S-containing environments, whose failure could pose a risk to the
health and safety of the public and personnel or to the environment. It can be applied to help to avoid costly corrosion damage
to the equipment itself. NACE MR0175/ISO 15156 consists of three standards and four technical corrigenda (addenda),
available through NACE as a complete package: Part 1: General principles for selection of cracking-resistant materials Part 2:
Cracking-resistant carbon and low alloy steels, and the use of cast irons Part 3: Cracking-resistant CRAs (corrosion-resistant
alloys) and other alloys Part 1, Technical Corrigendum 1 Part 2, Technical Corrigendum 1 Part 3, Technical Corrigendum 1 Part
3, Technical Corrigendum 2 Key words: aluminum alloys, austenitic stainless steels, bolts, carbon steels, cast iron, ceramic
coatings, cobalt alloys, cold working, copper alloys, fabrication, ferritic stainless steels, free-machining steels, hardness,
hydrogen sulfide, identification marking, low-alloy steels, martensitic stainless steels, metals, oilfield production equipment,
overlays, precipitation-hardening steels, pressure gauges, protective coatings, sealing rings, shot peening, sour environments,
springs, stainless steels, sulfide stress cracking, valves, welding.

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MR0103 MR0103-2005 Materials Resistant to Sulfide Stress
Cracking in Corrosive Petroleum Refining
Environments
Revised in 2005. Defines material requirements for resistance to sulfide stress cracking (SSC) in sour refinery process
environments (i.e., environments that contain wet hydrogen sulfide [H2S]). The term "wet H2S cracking" as used in the
refining industry covers a range of damage mechanisms that can occur due to the effects of hydrogen charging in wet H2S
refinery or gas plant process environments. One of the types of material damage that can occur as a result of hydrogen
charging is sulfide stress cracking (SSC) of hard weldments and microstructures, which is addressed by this standard. This

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standard is intented to be utilized by refineries, equipment manufacturers, engineering contractors, and construction
contractors. Key words: aluminum alloys, austentic stainless steels, carbon steels, cast iron, ceramic coatings, cobalt alloys,
copper alloys, ferritic stainless steels, free-machining steels, hydrogen sulfide, low-alloy steels, martensitic stainless steels,
metals, nickel alloys, oilfield production equipment, precipitation-hardening steels, sour environments, stainless steels, sulfide
stress cracking.