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	This test stand is used for liquid testing of safety valves and other flow products.  Both water and sand slurry flows are available for use in testing.

The Flow Component Testing Facilities (FCTF) valve test laboratory is accredited through the American Petroleum Institute (API) to perform validation testing for both surface and subsurface safety valves. Experimental safety valve testing can also be performed to assist clients with the design and validation of various products.

Operation and use of the laboratory is in accordance with the latest revisions of API Specification 14A/ISO 10432, "Specification for Subsurface Safety Valve Equipment," and API Specification 6AV1, "Specification for Verification Test of Wellhead Surface Safety Valve and Underwater Safety Valves for Offshore Service." Our safety valve facilities can accommodate experimental gas or liquid flow testing applications.

More information about safety valve tests can be found in the following documents:

	This blast chamber can be internally heated to provide high pressure-high temperature conditions for testing.

• API Safety Valve Verification Test Brochure

• Safety Valve Test Personnel and Contact Listing

• Safety Valve Test Fee Schedule

• API Spec. 14A Subsurface Safety Valve Test Application     

• API Spec. 6AV1 Surface Safety Valve Test Application     

For more information about safety valve testing at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), please contact:

Shane Siebenaler
Research Engineer
(210) 522-5758
Fax: (210) 681-9661
E-mail: ssiebenaler@swri.org

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Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is a multidisciplinary, independent, nonprofit, applied engineering and physical sciences research and development organization with 11 technical divisions.

December 04, 2007