API STD 600: 2015 [paper]
API Standard for Steel Gate Valves – Flanged and Butt-welding Ends, Bolted Bonnets, 13th edition
This International standard 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 would indicate a need for full port openings, heavy wall sections and large stem diameters.
This API Standard 600 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 pipe sizes NPS:
1; 1 1/4; 1 1/2; 2; 2 1/2; 3; 4; 6; 8; 10; 12; 14; 16; 18; 20; 24.
Corresponding to nominal pipe sizes DN:
25; 32; 40; 50; 65; 80; 100; 150; 200; 250; 300; 350; 400; 450; 500; 600.
Applies for pressure class designations:
150; 300; 600; 900; 1500; 2500.
API 600, C60015