DESIGN GUIDELINE

Title: Permissible leakage rate of spherical valves

Contents: This guideline defines internal standard values for the permissible leakage rate
of throttle valves.

1 General
Special literature and standards do not provide any reference values for the permissible leakages
of large spherical valves and butterfly valves, when they are used as shut-off devices in the water-
ways of hydroelectric plants.

DIN 3230 / Part 3 indeed defines permissible leakage rates for Armatures", however, due to
reasons of

- varying operational requirements

- varying deformation properties and
- varying sealing concepts

it cannot be transferred to large sized shut-off devices.

In addition it uses exclusively the nominal width DN as parameter, which, especially in case of
large nominal widths with higher nominal pressures, leads to unrealistically small, non-required
and also scarcely realisable leakage rates.

Therefore, based on a works standard of our licencee KURIMOTO (Japan), a scheme of

determination for the permissible leakage rate of our shut-off devices was developed, which
additionally takes into account

- the pressure as additional parameter

- usual customer demands
- results from measurements and especially
- the AO-Type (see table below) or the type of the sealing.

2 Reference Values
For new shut-off devices the leakage rate is calculated as follows:

Key wrods: Shut-off devices / spherical valves / butterfly valves / permissible leakage rate

Also see KoRiLi 621 DK 004

Revision: First edition as

Substitute for KoRiLi 621 KS 001 E

Prepared by SHKR/Jagenbrein Date 28.02.1999 Page 1 of 2

This document and all enclosures remain the property of the company by copyrights.

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 QLeck K D H [ml/min] 1 ml 1/1000 l = 1 cm

1 drop = 100 mm = 0,1 ml

whereby D = Nominal diameter in [m]

H = Test pressure (design or test pressure ) in [m WC]

K = Factor dependent upon AO-Type or pressure

AO - Typ Test pressure range [m] K

100 - 300 3
I Spherical valve with metallic seal (Sliding ring) > 300 - 750 4,5
> 750 - 1200 6
> 1200 7
20 - 100 10
II Butterfly valve with continuous rubber gasket > 100 - 200 20
("new" biplane butterfly valve) > 200 30
20 - 100 25
III Butterfly valve with rubber gasket interrupted in the > 100 - 200 50
trunnion area (e.g. disc valve, old biplane butterfly > 200 75
valve)
20 - 100 250
IV Butterfly valve with metallic gasket (old design) > 100 - 200 500
> 200 750

The above values should be achievable with our standard designs without any problems.

3 Guarantees
In the normal cases the values as per 2. can also be used as guarantee values. In case
compelling reasons (e.g. customer specifications, imposition of penalty, evaluation etc.) demand
the guarantee of smaller leakage rates, the K-values for the types I and II can be reduced up to
approx 60%.

For larger reductions as also for a reduction of the values for the types III and IV, additional
design measures (sealing arrangement, reduction of deformations or bendings, ...) can be
adopted.

KoRiLi 621 KS 001 E

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