ASME
Per ASME code, this is the correct orientation to install a valve.
What is Upright Vertical?
When a valve closes after an overpressure event.
What is Blowdown/Reseat Pressure?
The largest orifice Kunkle offers for an ASME liquid coded valve.
What is "J"?
True or False: Pulling the lift lever confirms the set pressure of the valve.
What is False?
This Kunkle valve has a stock polished metal ball seat.
What is the 548.
The ASME "UV" stands for this on a pressure relief valve's nameplate.
What is Section VIII?
The most common definition of set pressure for a compressible media.
What is when the valve "pops"?
The preferred Kunkle 6000 series model for steam service.
What is the 6021?
True or False: A Safety Valve or Safety-Relief Valve is the last line of defense for an overpressure event.
What is true?
The body of Kunkle's 6252 series is made of this material.
What is cast iron?
The minimum set pressure for an ASME coded valve.
What is 15 psig?
When a small amount of media passes between the seats of a pressure relief valve before the valve reaches the set pressure tolerance band.
What is Simmer?
The Kunkle 6000 series is this type of valve.
What is a safety valve?
A safety valve and/or safety-relief valve should go off this often under normal operating conditions.
What is never?
On the main shop floor, these PPE items are required.
What are safety glasses, hearing protection, and safety/steel toed shoes?
The type of ASME coded safety valve that should be used as the first line of defense on a steam boiler with a set pressure of 250 PSIG?
What is Section I?
This is the definition of "operating gap".
What is "the gap between operating pressure and set pressure."
The Kunkle 900 series is this type of valve.
What is a safety relief valve?
This API standard covers seat tightness of pressure relief valves.
What is API 527?
True or False: Pulling the lift lever confirms the set pressure of the valve.
What is False?
The largest interior cross sectional diameter of a vessel which is excluded from the scope of ASME Section VIII.
What is 6 inches?
The organization the certifies an Assembler to build/assemble new pressure relief valve products of a Manufacturer.
What is the "National Board"?
This Kunkle Valve Series is commonly used on vacuum trucks.
What is the 215V?
At this pressure, an accurately set and tested 100 psig set pressure ASME Section VIII air/gas pressure relief valve will pop.
What is 97 to 103 psig?
Kunkle manufactures these ASME Sections in Stafford, TX.
What are Section I, Section IV, and Section VIII.