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BS EN ISO 16135:2006+A1:2019 Industrial valves — Ball valves of thermoplastics materials. Amended standard published
What is it?: This International Standard specifies requirements for the design, functional characteristics and manufacture of ball valves made of ther...
Valve User Issue 51
BS EN ISO 16136:2006+A1:2019 Industrial valves - Butterfly valves of thermoplastics materials. Amended standard published
What is it?: This International Standard specifies requirements for the design, functional characteristics and manufacture of butterfly valves made of...
Valve User Issue 51
BS ISO 5209: 2019 General purpose industrial valves – Marking. Revised standard published
What is it?: This document specifies the requirements for the mandatory and optional markings of general purpose industrial valves. It defines the met...
Valve User Issue 51
Massive thank you to Emerson
We were bestowed with another fantastic donation from Emerson at our recent desktop exhibition at Fluor.
They donated their new TopWorx™ HART 7. T...
Valve User Issue 51
Fabulous donation from Rotork
Thank you to the team at Rotork for donating three fantastic gearboxes comprising a modular two stage planetary gearbox, a bevel gearbox (HOB3) and a ...
Valve User Issue 51
Offshore Europe 2019
SPE Offshore Europe was held from 3rd – 6th September in the brand-new P&J Live events facility which offered 48.000sqm of exhibition space. The event...
Valve User Issue 51
BS EN ISO 4126-1:2013 + A2:2019 “Safety devices for protection against excessive pressure - Part 1: Safety valves” - amended standard issued
What is it?: This part of ISO 4126 specifies general requirements for safety valves irrespective of the fluid for which they are designed.
It is a...
Valve User Issue 50
BS EN ISO 4126-2:2019 “Safety devices for protection against excessive pressure - Part 2: Bursting disc safety devices” - revised standard issued
What is it?: This document specifies the requirements for bursting disc safety devices. It includes the requirements for the design, manufacture, insp...
Valve User Issue 50
prEN 15714-5:2019 Industrial Valves - Actuators Part 5: Pneumatic linear actuators for industrial valves - Basic requirements - Draft for Public Comment
What is it?: This document provides basic requirements for piston type pneumatic linear actuators for industrial valves, both double acting and single...
Valve User Issue 50
ISO/FDIS 5209 General purpose industrial valves – Marking Document for Final Vote and Approval to Publish
What is it?: This document specifies the requirements for the mandatory and optional markings of general purpose industrial valves. It defines the met...
Valve User Issue 50
International Steam Trap Standards – Proposal to revise
What is it?: The following International Standards have completed their 5 year review. The UK voted to confirm except ISO 6554 where the vote was abst...
Valve User Issue 50
ISO/DIS 5209 General purpose industrial valves - Marking - Draft for Public Comment
What is it?: This document specifies the requirements for the mandatory and optional markings of general purpose industrial valves. It defines the met...
Valve User Issue 48
ISO/DIS 22109 Industrial valves — Gearbox for valves
What is it?: This document provides basic requirements for gearboxes to operate industrial valves for manual and automated on/off and modulating dutie...
Valve User Issue 48
European Ball Valve Standards – Future Direction
What is it?: Currently there are three EN standards for ball valves
1. EN 1983:2013 Industrial valves - Steel ball valves
2. EN 13547:2013 Indust...
Valve User Issue 48
BS EN 12516-4:2014 + A1:2018 Industrial valves - Shell design strength - Part 4: Calculation method for valve shells manufactured in metallic materials other than steel - amended standard issued
What is it?:
This European Standard specifies the calculation method for valve shells manufactured in metallic materials other than steel. The load...
Valve User Issue 48
BS EN 12516-1:2014 + A1:2018 Industrial valves - Shell design strength - Part 1: Tabulation method for steel valve shells – amended standard issued
What is it?:
This European Standard specifies the tabulation method for determining the wall thickness of valve bodies, bonnets and covers with essen...
Valve User Issue 48
Industrial valves - Metallic check valves – draft issued for Public Comment prEN 16767
What is it?: This document specifies the general requirements for metallic check valves, which are forged, cast or fabricated in straight, angle or ob...
Valve User Issue 48
BS EN 14141 Valves for natural gas transportation in pipelines – Performance requirements and tests - 5 Year Systematic Review
What is it?:
This European Standard applies to all valves (plug, ball, gate and check valves) used in onshore transmission pipelines for transport...
Valve User Issue 48
ISO/DIS 22153 Electric actuators for industrial valves — General requirements - draft issued for Public Comment
What is it?:
This document provides basic requirements for electric valve actuators, used for on-off and control valves. It includes guidelines fo...
Valve User Issue 47
prEN xxxxx Industrial valves - Functional safety of safety-related valves and actuators - Preliminary Work Item Proposal has been approved by TC69 for development of a new standard
What is it?:
This standard will define procedures and methods with which all relevant components of automated industrial valve packages can be eval...
Valve User Issue 47
BS EN 1349 Industrial process control valves - 5 Year Systematic Review
What is it?:
This European Standard applies to all industrial process control valves (hereafter referred to as control valves). This European Stand...
Valve User Issue 47
BS EN ISO 10497_2010 Testing of valves - Fire type-testing requirements (ISO10497:2010)
What is it?:
This International Standard specifies fire type-testing requirements and a fire type-test method for confirming the pressure-containi...
Valve User Issue 47
ISO/CD 5752 Metal valves for use in flanged pipe systems — Face to face and centre to face dimensions - committee draft issued
What is it?:
This document specifies the basic series of face-to-face (FTF) and centre-to-face (CTF) dimensions for two-way metal valves used in f...
Valve User Issue 47
ISO/NP 23632 Industrial valves — Type testing of valves - committee draft issued
What is it?:
This International standard specifies requirements and acceptance criteria for type testing of butterfly and ball valves used for isol...
Valve User Issue 47
BS EN 16668:2016+A1:2018 Industrial valves — Requirements and testing for metallic valves as pressure accessories - amended standard issued
What is it?:
This European standard applies to metallic valves as pressure accessories for industrial applications with a maximum allowable pressur...
Valve User Issue 47
