15 Books found
American Petroleum Institute (API) Books
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API RP 535 For Petroleum Refining Standards
This recommended practice provides guidelines for the selection and/or evaluation of burners installed in fired heaters in general refinery services. Details of fired heater and related equipment designs are considered only where they interact with the burner selection. This recommended practice does not provide rules for design but indicates areas that need attention. It offers information and descriptions of burner types available to the ...
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API RP 540 For Petroleum Refining Standards
This recommended practice is limited to electrical installations in petroleum facilities. It provides a basis for specifications included in engineering and construction contracts. Electrical equipment test standards are excluded from the scope of this recommended practice. Operation and maintenance are addressed only insofar as they affect electrical system design and electrical equipment selection. The subject of energy conservation is ...
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API RP 573 For Petroleum Refining Standards
This recommended practice covers the inspection practices for fired boilers and process heaters (furnaces) used in petroleum refineries and petrochemical plants. The practices described in this document are focused to improve equipment reliability and plant safety by describing the operating variables which impact reliability, and to ensure that inspection practices obtain the appropriate data, both on-stream and off-stream, to assess current ...
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API SPEC 12K Standard for Exploration & Production
This specification covers minimum requirements for the design, fabrication, and shop testing of oilfield indirect type fired heaters used in the production of oil, gas, and their associated fluids. They are usually located at some point on the producing flow-line between the wellhead and pipeline. Heater components covered by this specification include the pressurized coils, the shell, heater bath, firetube and the firing system. ...
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API STD 521 For Petroleum Refining Standards
This International Standard is applicable to pressure-relieving and vapour-depressuring systems. Although intended for use primarily in oil refineries, it is also applicable to petrochemical facilities, gas plants, liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities and oil and gas production facilities. The information provided is designed to aid in the selection of the system that is most appropriate for the risks and circumstances involved in various ...
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API STD 546 For Petroleum Refining Standards
This standard covers the minimum requirements for form-wound and bar-wound brushless synchronous machines for use in petroleum, chemical and other industrial applications. This standard includes synchronous motors and generators with two different rotor designs: salient-pole type rotors with solid or laminated poles; cylindrical type rotors with solid or laminated construction. NOTE 1 A round bullet ( ...
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API STD 560 For Petroleum Refining Standards
This International Standard specifies requirements and gives recommendations for the design, materials, fabrication, inspection, testing, preparation for shipment, and erection of fired heaters, air preheaters, fans and burners for general refinery service. This International Standard is not intended to apply to the design of steam reformers or pyrolysis ...
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API STD 611 For Petroleum Refining Standards
Scope Purpose This standard covers the minimum requirements for general-purpose steam turbines. These requirements include basic design, materials, related lubrication systems, controls, auxiliary equipment and accessories. Note: A bullet (•) at the beginning of a paragraph indicates that either a decision is required or further information is to be provided ...
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API STD 612 For Petroleum Refining Standards
This International Standard specifies requirements and gives recommendations for the design, materials, fabrication, inspection, testing and preparation for shipment of steam turbines for special-purpose applications. It also covers the related lube-oil systems, instrumentation, control systems and auxiliary equipment. It is not applicable to general-purpose steam turbines, which are covered in ISO 10436. NOTE For the purpose of ...
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API STD 616 For Petroleum Refining Standards
1 Scope This standard covers the minimum requirements for open, simple, and regenerative-cycle combustion gas turbine units for services of mechanical drive, generator drive, or process gas generation. All auxiliary equipment required for operating, starting, and controlling gas turbine units and for turbine protection is either discussed directly in this standard or referred to in this standard through references to other ...
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API STD 660 For Petroleum Refining Standards
This International 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. This International Standard is applicable to the following types of shell-and-tube heat exchangers: heaters, condensers, coolers and reboilers. ...
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API STD 661 For Petroleum Refining Standards
This International Standard gives requirements and recommendations for the design, materials, fabrication, inspection, testing and preparation for shipment of air-cooled heat exchangers for use in the petroleum and natural gas industries. This International Standard is applicable to air-cooled heat exchangers with horizontal bundles, but the basic concepts can also be applied to other ...
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API STD 662 PART 1 For Petroleum Refining Standards
This part of ISO 15547 gives requirements and recommendations for the mechanical design, materials selection, fabrication, inspection, testing, and preparation for shipment of plate-and-frame heat exchangers for use in petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries. It is applicable to gasketed, semi-welded and welded plate-and-frame heat ...
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API STD 662 PART 2 For Petroleum Refining Standards
This part of ISO 15547 gives requirements and recommendations for the mechanical design, materials selection, fabrication, inspection, testing, and preparation for shipment of brazed aluminium plate-fin heat exchangers for use in petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas ...
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API STD 671 For Petroleum Refining Standards
This International Standard specifies the requirements for couplings for the transmission of power between the rotating shafts of two machines in special-purpose applications in the petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries. Such applications are typically in large and/or high speed machines, in services that can be required to operate continuously for extended periods, are often unspared and are critical to the continued operation ...