This document 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 can indicate a need for full port openings, heavy wall sections and large stem diameters.

This document sets forth the requirements for the following gate valve features:

— bolted bonnet;

— outside screw and yoke;

— rising stems;

— non-rising handwheels;

— single or double gate;

— wedge or parallel seating;

— metallic seating surfaces;

— flanged or butt-welding ends.

It covers valves of the nominal sizes DN:

— 25; 32; 40; 50; 65; 80; 100; 150; 200; 250; 300; 350; 400; 450; 500; 600;

corresponding to nominal pipe sizes NPS:

— 1; 1¼; 1½; 2; 2½; 3; 4; 6; 8; 10; 12; 14; 16; 18; 20; 24;

applies for pressure Class designations:

— 150; 300; 600; 900; 1 500; 2 500;

and applies for pressure PN designations:

— 16, 25, 40, 63, 100, 160, 250 and 400.