BT2-BT3 series API 6A side-entry trunnion ball valves

Features & Benefits

Velan ABV has been an API 6A licensee since 2001, implementing a quality management system in compliance with API Q1 and offers a complete range of valves that comply with the latest edition of API requirements.

Velan ABV designs and manufactures API 6A Side-entry ball valves for Wellhead and Christmas tree equipment and for operating in aggressive environments with various fluids and gases such as a petroleum mixture of oil and sand and extreme sour gas service.

Our forged valves are configured in two or three bolted pieces to ensure the highest level of reliability in varying combinations of high-temperature and high-pressure applications. Forged materials provide the rigidity and strength required in critical high-pressure operations to meet the customer’s project specifications

Seat design

• Soft or metal seated with Hardfacing on ball and seats
• Self relieving seats
• Double piston seats
• Combination seats

Features

• Double block and bleed design (DBB)
• Secondary seals in pure Graphite
• Anti-static device
• Anti-blowout stem
• Lip seal configuration
• Emergency sealant injection on seats and stem available
• Low fugitive emission stem packing available
• CRA overlay on all dynamic sealing areas or on all wetted parts available

Operator

• Manual: wrench or Gear with padlocking
• Actuated: Pneumatic/ Hydraulic/Electric

Testing & certifications

• Compliance with API 6A inspection and testing
• Fire safe and fire tested as per API 6FA/ 607
• SIL 3 Certification as per IEC61508
• Fugitive Emission as per ISO15848
• PED 2014/68/UE
• Different product specification levels available (PSL 1, 2, 3, 3G and 4)
• Different performance requirement levels available (PR1, PR2)
• Design validation as per PR2F (on request)