API Standards for Refining

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API standards for Refining

The following publications are currently being worked on within the API Committee on

Refinery Equipment.

Documents marked with an asterisk (*) are expected to be published in 2014.

* Recommended Practice 505, Recommended Practice for Classification of Locations for

Electrical Installations at Petroleum Facilities Classified as Class I, Zone 0, Zone 1 and Zone 2,

2nd Edition

API 510, Pressure Vessel Inspection Code: Maintenance Inspection, Rating, Repair, and

Alteration, 10th Edition - Published

* Standard 520-1, Sizing, Selection, and Installation of Pressure-relieving Devices in Refineries,

Part ISizing and Selection, 9th Edition

Standard 521, Guide for Pressure-relieving and Depressuring Systems, 6th Edition - Published

* Standard 527, Seat Tightness of Pressure Relief Valves, 4th Edition

* Standard 530, Calculation of Heater-tube Thickness in Petroleum Refineries, 7th EditionANSI/API Standard 534, Heat Recovery Steam Generators for Combustion Turbine Exhaust

Applications, 3rd Edition

Recommended Practice 535, Burners for Fired Heaters in General Refinery Services, 3rd Edition -

Published

Recommended Practice 536, Post Combustion NOx Control for Equipment in General Refinery

Services, 3rd Edition

Standard 537, Flare Details for General Refinery and Petrochemical Service, 3rd Edition

* Recommended Practice 538,Industrial Fired Boilers, 1st Edition

Recommended Practice 540,Electrical Installations in Petroleum Processing Plants, 5th Edition

* Standard 541, Form-Wound Squirrel-Cage Induction Motors 500 Horsepower and Larger, 5thEdition

* Recommended Practice 545, Lightning Protection for Aboveground Storage Tanks, 3rd

Edition

* Standard 547, General-purpose Form-wound Squirrel Cage Induction Motors-250 Horsepower

and Larger, 2nd Edition

* Recommended Practice 551,Process Measurement Instrumentation, 2nd Edition

* Recommended Practice 552, Transmission Systems, 2nd Edition

* Standard 560,Fired Heaters for General Refinery Services, 5th Edition

Standard 561, Reforming Furnaces for Hydrogen and Syngas Production, 1st Edition

Recommended Practice 565, Reactor Furnaces in Sulfur Recovery Units for General RefineryService, 1st Edition

Recommended Practice 575, Inspection of Atmospheric & Low Pressure Storage Tanks , 3rd

Edition - Published

Recommended Practice 583, Corrosion Under Insulation and Fireproofing, 1st Edition -

Published

Recommended 584,Integrity Operating Windows, 1st Edition - Published
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Recommended Practice 585, Pressure Equipment Integrity Incident Investigation, 1st Edition -

Published

Recommended Practice 591,Process Valve Qualification Procedure, 5th Edition - Published

Standard 602, Steel Gate, Globe, and Check Valves for Sizes DN 100 and Smaller for the

Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries, 10th Edition

* Standard 612, Petroleum, Petrochemical and Natural Gas Industries

Steam Turbines

Special-Purpose Applications, 7th Edition

* Standard 617,Axial and Centrifugal Compressors and Expander-compressors for Petroleum,

Chemical and Gas Industry Services, 8th Edition

Standard 618,Reciprocating Compressors for Petroleum, Chemical and Gas Industry Services ,

6th Edition

* Standard. 620-A1, Addendum 1 to Design and Construction of Large, Welded, Low-pressure

Storage Tanks, 12th Edition

Standard 624, Type Testing of Rising Stem Valves Equipped with Flexible Graphite Packing for

Fugitive Emissions, 1st Edition - Published

* Standard 625-A2, Addendum 2 to Tank Systems for Refrigerated Liquefied Gas Storage, 1stEdition

* Standard 650-A1, Addendum 1 to Welded Tanks for Oil Storage, 12th Edition

* Recommended Practice 651, Cathodic Protection of Aboveground Storage Tanks, 4th Edition

* Recommended Practice 652, Linings of Aboveground Petroleum Storage Tank Bottoms, 4th

Edition

* Standard 653, Tank Inspection, Repair, Alteration, and Reconstruction, 5th Edition

* Standard 660, Shell-and-tube Heat Exchangers, 9th Edition

Standard 663, Hairpin-type Heat Exchangers, 1st Edition - Published

Standard 664, Spiral Plate Heat Exchangers, 1st Edition - Published

Standard 667, Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers for General Refinery Services,1st EditionStandard 668, Brazed Aluminum Plate-fin Heat Exchangers for General Refinery Services, 1st

Edition

Standard 669, Heat Recovery Systems, 1st Edition

* Standard 670, Machinery Protection Systems, 5th Edition

* Standard 672, Packaged, Integrally Geared Centrifugal Air Compressors for Petroleum,

Chemical, and Gas Industry Services, 5th Edition

* Standard 673, Centrifugal Fans for Petroleum, Chemical and Gas Industry Services , 3rd Edition

* Standard 681, Liquid Ring Vacuum Pumps and Compressors, 2nd Edition

Standard 682, PumpsShaft Sealing Systems for Centrifugal and Rotary Pumps, 4th Edition -

Published

* Recommended Practice 684, Tutorial on the API Standard Paragraphs Covering Rotor

Dynamics and Balance (An Introduction to Lateral Critical and Train Torsional Analysis and Rotor

Balancing), 3rd Edition

* Recommended Practice 687, Rotor Repair, 2nd Edition

Recommended Practice 691, Machinery Risk Based Inspection, 1st Edition

* Standard 692, Compressor Dry Gas Seals, 1st Edition
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Recommended Practice 934-A, Materials and Fabrication Requirements for 2-1/4/3Cr Alloy

Steel Heavy Wall Pressure Vessels for High Temperature, High Pressure Hydrogen Service, 3rd

Edition

Recommended Practice 934-C,Materials and Fabrication of 1-1/4CR - 1/2Mo Steel Heavy Wall

Pressure Vessels for High Pressure Hydrogen Service Operating at or Below 825F (441C), 3rd

EditionRecommended Practice 934-F,Minimum Pressurization Temperatures, MPT, for Heavy Wall

Pressure Vessels, 1st Edition

Recommended Practice 934-G,Design, Material, and Construction Considerations of Coke

Drums, 1st Edition

Recommended Practice 934-H,Maintenance Unique to 2 1/4Cr-1Mo and 2 1/4Cr-1Mo-V Steel

Pressure Vessels in High Pressure, High Temperature Hydrogen-Containing Service, 1st Edition

Recommended Practice 934-I, Periodic Inspection of 2 1/4Cr-1Mo and 2 1/4Cr-1Mo-V Steel

Pressure Vessels in High Pressure, High Temperature Hydrogen-Containing Service, 1st Edition

* Standard 936, Refractory Installation Quality Control Specification - Inspection & Testing

Monolithic Refractory Linings & Materials, 4th EditionRecommended Practice 939-C, Guidelines for Avoiding Sulfidation Failures in Oil Refineries, 2nd

Edition

Recommended Practice 941, Steels for Hydrogen Service at Elevated Temperatures and

Pressures in Petroleum Refineries and Petrochemical Plants, 8th Edition

* Technical Report 941-A1, Addendum 1 to The Technical Basis Document for API

Recommended Practice 9411st Edition

* Technical Report 942-A, Materials, Fabrication, and Repair Considerations for Hydrogen

Reformer Furnace Outlet Pigtails and Manifolds, 1st Edition

* Technical Report 942-B, Material, Fabrication and Repair Considerations for Austenitic Alloys

Subject to Embrittlement and Cracking in High Temperature Refinery Service, 1st EditionRecommended Practice 945,Avoiding Environmental Cracking in Amine Units, 4th Edition

Recommended Practice 970, Work Process for Development of Corrosion Control Diagrams, 1st

Edition

Standard 2000, Venting Atmospheric and Low-pressure Storage Tanks, 7th Edition - Published

Standard 2015, Requirements for Safe Entry and Cleaning of Petroleum Storage Tanks, 7th

Edition - Published

Recommended Practice 2016, Guidelines and Procedures for Entering and Cleaning Petroleum

Storage Tanks, 2nd Edition
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