New Edition —Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2013. — 690 с. Membrane reactors are increasingly replacing conventional separation, process and conversion technologies across a wide range of applications. Exploiting advanced membrane materials, they offer enhanced efficiency, are very adaptable and have great economic potential. There has therefore been increasing interest in...
Springer International Publishing, 2014. — 274 p. — (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics). — ISBN: 9783319069227 This volume contains contributions from the Gulf International Conference in Applied Mathematics, held at the Gulf University for Science & Technology. The proceedings reflects the three major themes of the conference. The first of these was mathematical...
National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) International, Houston, TX. 2011. 23p. ISBN: 1-57590-163-3 Provides a standard set of test conditions for consistent evaluation of pipeline and pressure vessel steels and compares test results from different laboratories pertaining to the results of the absorption of hydrogen generated by corrosion of steel in wet H2S....
9th edition. — Wiley, 2008. — 880 p. The ninth edition continues to provide engineers with an accessible resource for learning calculus. The book includes carefully worked examples and special problem types that help improve comprehension. New applied exercises demonstrate the usefulness of the mathematics. Additional summary tables with step-by-step details are also...
API, May 2014, 80p, 10th Ed.
This inspection code covers the in-service inspection, repair, alteration, and rerating activities for pressure vessels and the pressure- relieving devices protecting these vessels. This inspection code applies to all refining and chemical process vessels that have been placed in service unless specifically excluded per
This includes: a. vessels...
American Petroleum Institute (API) THIRD EDITION, OCTOBER 2011. 100p. Many facilities in the refining and petrochemical processing industries employ contractor personnel for a wide range of activities, from administrative support to equipment repair, maintenance, and construction. Contractor activities that involve work in or around process equipment can have an increased...
American Petroleum Institute (API), Third Edition, APRIL 2014. 106p. Recommended Practice 575
This document provides useful information and recommended practices for the maintenance and inspection of atmospheric and low-pressure storage tanks. While these maintenance and inspection guidelines may apply to other types of tanks, these practices are intended primarily for existing...
American Petroleum Institute (API). Second Edition, 2013, 156p.
This recommended practice provides guidance to the API authorized inspector on welding inspection as encountered with fabrication and repair of refinery and chemical plant equipment and piping. This recommended practice includes descriptions of common welding processes, welding procedures, welder qualifications,...
American Petroleum Institute (API). 2nd edition, December 2009. Recommended Practice 582.
This recommended practice, initiated and developed through the joint efforts of API and Process Industry Practices (PIP), provides supplementary guidelines and practices for welding and welding-related topics for shop and field fabrication, repair and modification of:
Pressure-containing...
American Petroleum Institute (API) Spec 14A 12th Ed, January 2015. 150p Effective Date: January 15, 2016 API Product No. G14A12 This specification provides the requirements for subsurface safety valves (SSSVs), and the secondary tools as defined herein necessary to operate the features included within them, including all components that establish tolerances and/or clearances...
American Petroleum Institute (API) FOURTH EDITION, JANUARY 2013. 62p. Effective date: AUGUST 1, 2013
This specification states requirements and gives recommendations for suitable steel structures for drilling and well servicing operations in the petroleum industry, provides a uniform method of rating the structures, and provides two Product Specification Levels (PSLs).
This...
American Petroleum Institute (API) Forty-Sixth Edition, April 2018. 205p. Effective date: November 1, 2018 API SPECIFICATION 5L, 46TH EDITION We are pleased to announce the publication of the 46th edition of Specification 5L, Line Pipe. This new edition provides technical updates that have reached consensus within API’s Subcommittee on Tubular Goods and will now give industry...
American Petroleum Institute (API) Forty-Fifth Edition, December 2012. 192p. Effective date: july 1, 2013 This Standard specifies requirements for the manufacture of two product specification levels (PSL 1 and PSL 2) of seamless and welded steel pipes for use in pipeline transportation systems in the petroleum and natural gas industries. This Standard is not applicable to cast...
American Petroleum Institute (API), January, 2015. p42. Full Description This standard specifies the requirements for a heavy-duty series of bolted bonnet steel gate valves for petroleum refinery and related applications where corrosion, erosion, and other service conditions would indicate a need for full port openings, heavy wall sections, and large stem diameters. This...
American Petroleum Institute (API) STANDARD 660 NINTH EDITION, March 2015. 72P. Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers This standard specifies requirements and gives recommendations for the mechanical design, material selection, fabrication, inspection, testing, and preparation for shipment of shell-and-tube heat exchangers for the petroleum, petrochemical, and natural gas industries....
API STANDARD 663 Hairpin-type Heat Exchangers, MAY 2014, 54 P, 1st Ed. Description This standard specifies requirements and gives recommendations for the mechanical design, materials selection, fabrication, inspection, testing and preparation for shipment of hairpin heat exchangers for use in the petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries. Hairpin heat exchangers...
API Standard 673, THIRD EDITION, DECEMBER 2014, 124 P
This standard covers the minimum requirements for centrifugal fans for use in petroleum, chemical, and gas industry services. Fan static pressure rise is limited to differential usually not exceeding 130 in. (330 cm) of water equivalent air pressure from a single impeller or each impeller in a two stage fan. This standard...
API STANDARD 674, THIRD EDITION, DECEMBER 2010, 108 P. ERRATA, MAY 2014 Full Description Covers the minimum requirements for reciprocating positive displacement pumps for use in petroleum, chemical, and gas industry services. Both direct-acting and power-frame types are included. Scope Normative References Terms and Definitions General Statutory Requirements Basic Design...
API, September 2013, 128p. Standard 1104. 21st Ed, Welding of Pipelines and Related Facilities.
This standard covers the gas and arc welding of butt, .fillet, and socket welds in carbon and low-alloy steel piping used in the compression, pumping, and transmission of crude petroleum, petroleum products, fuel gases, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen and, where applicable, covers...
American Petroleum Institute (API) 12th Edition, October 2013. 290p
ADDENDUM 1, NOVEMBER 2014
The API Downstream Segment has prepared this standard to cover large, field-assembled storage tanks of the type described in 1.2 that contain petroleum intermediates (gases or vapors) and finished products, as well as other liquid products commonly handled and stored by the various...
API STANDARD 625, Tank Systems for Refrigerated Liquefied Gas Storage, August 2010, 74p, 1st Ed. ADDENDUM 1, JULY 2013, ADDENDUM 2, NOVEMBER 2014 This standard covers low pressure, above ground, vertical, and cylindrical tank systems storing liquefied gases requiring refrigeration. This standard provides general requirements on responsibilities, selection of storage concept,...
API, March 2013, 514 pages. Standard 650 Welded Tanks for Oil Storage, 12th Edition, Standard establishes minimum requirements for material, design, fabrication, erection, and testing for vertical, cylindrical, aboveground, closed- and open-top, welded carbon or stainless steel storage tanks in various sizes and capacities for internal pressures approximating atmospheric...
API Std 682, MAY 2014, 4th Ed. 268 P.
This standard specifies requirements and gives recommendations for sealing systems for centrifugal and rotary pumps used in the petroleum, natural gas, and chemical industries. See A.1.1 and A
.1.2. It is the responsibility of the purchaser or seal vendor to ensure that the selected seal and auxiliaries are suitable for the intended...
API, April 2011, 58p, Second Edition. Techanical Report 938-C, Use of Duplex Stainless Steels in the Oil Refining Industry ABSTRACT Duplex stainless steels (DSS) have built up an extensive service history in many different refinery applications. Some equipment has been in service over twenty years. Today, these steels are often the most cost- effective and/or reliable alloy...
Published: 08/23/2017 ISBN(s): 9780791871423 Number of Pages: 242 Scope General This Standard applies to new construction and covers pressure-temperature ratings, dimensions, tolerances, materials, nondestructive examination requirements, testing, and marking for cast, forged, and fabricated flanged, threaded, and welding end and wafer or flangeless valves of steel, nickel-base...
Publisher: ASME Published: 07/01/2017 ISBN(s): 9780791870785 Number of Pages: 1616 ASME BPVC 2017 Section II - Materials - Part B - Nonferrous Material Specifications (Redline Version) Redline Version is helpful for tracking changes incorporated. This Section is a “Service Section” to the other BPVC Sections, providing material specifications for ferrous materials adequate for...
ASME, 2017. — 813 p. — ISBN: 9780791870761. This Section is a “Service Section” to the other BPVC Sections, providing material specifications for ferrous materials adequate for safety in the field of pressure equipment. These specifications contain requirements for chemical and mechanical properties, heat treatment, manufacture, heat and product analyses, and methods of...
ASME, 2017. — 951 p. — ISBN: 9780791870761. This Section is a “Service Section” to the other BPVC Sections, providing material specifications for ferrous materials adequate for safety in the field of pressure equipment. These specifications contain requirements for chemical and mechanical properties, heat treatment, manufacture, heat and product analyses, and methods of...
Publisher: ASME Published: 07/01/2017 ISBN(s): 9780791871034 Number of Pages: 764 ASME BPVC Section XII-Rules for Construction and Continued Service of Transport Tanks (Redline Version) Redline Version is helpful for tracking changes incorporated. This Section covers requirements for construction and continued service of pressure vessels for the transportation of dangerous goods...
Publisher: ASME Published: 07/01/2017 ISBN(s): 9780791871034 Number of Pages: 390 ASME BPVC 2017 Section XII Rules for Construction and Continued Service of Transport Tanks This Section covers requirements for construction and continued service of pressure vessels for the transportation of dangerous goods via highway, rail, air or water at pressures from full vacuum to 3,000 psig...
ASTM, 2004 (Re approved 2009), 3p - A101 Standard Specification for Ferrochromium
Brief Summary
This specification covers two types of ferrochromium designated as high carbon and low carbon, the latter including nitrogen-bearing and vacuum grades. The grades which are available in different sizes shall conform to the required chemical composition for chromium, carbon, silicon,...
ASTM, 2004 (Re approved 2009), 3p - A102 Standard Specification for Ferrovanadium
Brief Summary
This specification covers different sizes of one grade of ferrovanadium. The material shall undergo chemical analysis and shall conform to the requirements as to composition of the following chemical elements: vanadium, carbon, silicon, aluminum, sulfur, and phosphorus.
Scope...
ASTM, 2014, 5p. A 105/ 105M, Standard Specification for Carbon Steel Forgings for Piping Applications This specification covers standards for forged carbon steel piping components, that is, flanges, fittings, valves, and similar parts, for use in pressure systems at ambient and higher-temperature service conditions. Materials shall be subjected to heat treatment (annealing,...
ASTM, 2012, 4p. A 1053 Standard Specification for Welded Ferritic-Martensitic Stainless Steel Pipe
Brief Summary
This specification covers seam welded ferritic-martensitic stainless steel pipe intended for abrasive and general corrosion service. The pipes are classified according to sizes, from NPS 2 to NPS
36. The pipe shall be made using Electric Resistance Welding (ERW) or...
ASTM, 2014, 9p. A 106/ 106M, Standard Specification for Seamless Carbon Steel Pipe for High-Temperature Service Applications This specification covers carbon steel pipe for high-temperature service. These pipes are suitable for welding, bending, flanging, and similar forming operations. Mechanical testing of the specimens shall include tensile, bending, flattening, hydrostatic...
ASTM, 1996 (Re approved 2007), 6p - A125 Standard Specification for Steel Springs, Helical, Heat-Treated.
Brief Summary
This specification covers the standard for hot-coiled, heat-treated helical compression springs with tapered, closed, squared and ground ends made of hot-wrought round steel bars. Cross sections for hot-wrought round, square, and round-cornered square bars of...
ASTM, 1993 (Re approved 2012), 3p - A128 Standard Specification for Steel Castings, Austenitic Manganese.
Brief Summary
This specification covers Hadfield austenitic manganese steel castings and alloy modifications. The castings shall be suitably heat treated to achieve toughness and ductility. This heat treatment shall consist of uniformly heating the castings to a...
ASTM 2001, 11p. A 194/A 194M Standard Specification for Carbon and Alloy Steel Nuts for Bolts for High Pressure or High Temperature Service, or Both. Abstract This specification covers a variety of carbon, alloy, and martensitic and austenitic stainless steel nuts. These nuts are intended for high-pressure or high-temperature service, or both. Bars from which the nuts are made...
ASTM, 2014, 9p. A 234/A 234M, Standard Specification for Piping Fittings of Wrought Carbon Steel and Alloy Steel for Moderate and High Temperature Service This specification covers wrought carbon steel and alloy steel fittings of seamless and welded construction. These fittings are for use in pressure piping and in pressure vessel fabrication for service at moderate and...
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). 2004, 3p. A 242/A 242M-04 Brief summary This specification covers high-strength low-alloy structural steel shapes, plates, and bars for welded, riveted, or bolted construction intended primarily for use as structural members where savings in weight (mass) or added durability are important. Steel specimens shall be semi-killed...
ASTM, 2010. — 16 p, A262 Standard Practices for Detecting Susceptibility to Intergranular Attack in Austenitic Stainless Steels Abstract This specification covers the standard practices for detecting susceptibility to intergranular attack in austenitic stainless steels. These practices include five intergranular corrosion tests, namely: (1) oxalic acid etch test for...
ASTM, 2013. — 17 p, A262 Standard Practices for Detecting Susceptibility to Intergranular Attack in Austenitic Stainless Steels Brief Summary This specification covers the standard practices for detecting susceptibility to intergranular attack in austenitic stainless steels. These practices include five intergranular corrosion tests, namely: (1) oxalic acid etch test for...
ASTM, 2015. — 20 p, A262 Standard Practices for Detecting Susceptibility to Intergranular Attack in Austenitic Stainless Steels Brief Summary This specification covers the standard practices for detecting susceptibility to intergranular attack in austenitic stainless steels. These practices include five intergranular corrosion tests, namely: (1) oxalic acid etch test for...
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). 2003, 2p. A 283/A 283M-03
Brief summary
This specification covers four grades of carbon steel plates of structural quality for general application. Steel samples shall be melt processed by either open-hearth, basic-oxygen, or electric furnace. Heat and product analysis shall be performed wherein steel materials shall conform to...
ASTM, 2012, 3p - A302 Standard Specification for Pressure Vessel Plates, Alloy Steel, Manganese-Molybdenum and Manganese-Molybdenum-Nickel. Brief Summary. This specification covers manganese-molybdenum and manganese-molybdenum-nickel alloy steel plates intended particularly for welded boilers and other pressure vessels. According to their strength levels, the plates are...
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). 2003, 2p. A 328/A 328M-03
Brief summary
This specification covers carbon steel sheet piling of structural quality for use in the construction of dock walls, sea walls, cofferdams, excavations, and similar applications. When the steel is to be welded, it is presupposed that a welding procedure suitable for the grade of steel and...
ASTM, 2011, 6p - A356 Standard Specification for Steel Castings, Carbon, Low Alloy, and Stainless Steel, Heavy-Walled for Steam Turbines
Brief Summary
This specification covers one grade of martensitic stainless steel and several grades of ferritic steel castings for cylindrical (shells), valve chests, throttle valves, and other heavy-walled castings for steam turbine...
ASTM, 2012, 8p - A358 Standard Specification for Electric-Fusion-Welded Austenitic Chromium-Nickel Stainless Steel Pipe for High-Temperature Service and General Applications
Brief Summary
This specification covers electric-fusion-welded austenitic chromium-nickel stainless steel pipe suitable for corrosive or high-temperature service, or both, or for general applications. The...
ASTM, 2014, 50p A. 370. Standard Test Methods and Definitions for Mechanical Testing of Steel Products. Scope. These test methods2 cover procedures and definitions for the mechanical testing of steels, stainless steels, and related alloys. The various mechanical tests herein described are used to determine properties required in the product specifications. Variations in testing...
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). 2000, 3p. A 514/A 514M-00a
Brief summary
This specification covers high-yield, quenched, and tempered alloy steel plates for use in welded bridges and other structures. Plates shall be subjected to heat treatment to conform to the tensile and hardness requirements for thickness, tensile strength, yield strength, elongation,...