Crosby Engineering Handbook

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American Petroleum Institute (API)
ANSI/API Recommended Practice 520 Part I, Sizing
and Selection. This API design manual is widely used
for sizing of relief valves on both liquid and gas filled
vessels: (a) liquid vessels - paragraphs 5 and 6, and (b)
gas filled vessels - Appendix D-3. This RP covers only
vessels above 15 psig.
ANSI/API Recommended Practice 520 Part II, Installation. This includes: (a) recommended piping practices, (b) calculation formula for reactive force on valve
(2.4), and (c) precautions on preinstallation handling and
dirt.
ANSI/API Recommended Practice 521, Guide for
Pressure Relief and Depressuring Systems. An excellent document on everything from causes of overpressure through flare stacks.
ANSI/API Recommended Practice 526, Flanged
Steel Relief Valves. Gives industry standards as to
dimensions, pressure-temperature ratings, maximum set
pressures, body materials.
ANSI/API Recommended Practice 527, Seat Tightness of Pressure Relief Valves. Permissible leakage
rate of conventional and bellows valves and testing
procedure.
API Guide for Inspection of Refinery Equipment,
Chapter XVI Pressure Relieving Devices. Gives: (a)
guide for inspection and record keeping, and (b) frequency of inspection, Paragraph 1602.03.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

(ASME)
ASME B31.1. Power Piping - Code 1995 Edition
Reference sections:

valves on boiler external piping, safety relief valves on

non boiler external piping,and non mandatory appendices on valve installations.
Chapter II, Part 6, Paragraph 122.6 - Pressure Relief Piping

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

ASME/ANSI B16.5. Pipe flanges and flanged fittings. This standard provides allowable materials, pressure temperature limits and flange dimensions for standard ANSI flanges.
ASME/ANSI B16.34. Valves - Flanged, Threaded
and Welding End. Standard covers pressure, temperature ratings, dimensions, tolerances, materials, nondestructive examination requirements, testing and marking
for cast, forged and manufactured flanged, threaded and
welding end valves. (End connection dimensions and
tolerances are applicable only.)
ANSI B31.8. Gas Transmission and Distribution
Systems. Portions of this large document pertain to
pressure relief and its limitations.

Manufacturers Standardizations Society

Standard Practices (MSS-SP)
SP-25. (Not applicable to pressure relief valves.)
Standard marking system for valves, fittings, flanges and
unions. Refer to UG-129 of ASME Section VIII for
marking information for pressure relief valves.
SP-55. Quality standards for steel castings for valves,
flanges and fittings and other piping components.
SP-61. (Not applicable to pressure relief valves.)
Pressure testing of steel valves (refer to API Recommended Practice 527 for commercial seat tightness
tests).

Other Standards to be considered:

Chapter II, Part 3, Paragraph 107.8 Safety and relief

valves including general information, safety and relief

See pages 4-2 and 4-3.

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Allami Energerhkai es
Energiabiztonsagtechnikai Felugyelet (AEEF)
(State Authority for Energy, Management and Safety)
Budapest VIII
Koztarsasag ter 7, Hungary

Safety Valves 22/1969/VI.12 (mod)

29/1960/VI.7 (orig)

American National Standards Institute

1430 Broadway
New York, NY 10018

B16.34 Steel Valves, Flanged and Buttwelded Ends

B16.5 Steel Pipe Flanges and Flanged Fittings
B31.1 Power Piping
B31.3 Chemical Plant and Petroleum Refinery Piping
B31.4 Liquid Petroleum Transportation Piping Systems
B95.1 Terminology for Pressure Relief Devices
ANSI/ASME PTC 25.3 Performance Test Code, Safety
and Relief Valves

American Petroleum Institute

2101 L Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20037

API RP 510 Pressure Vessel Inspection Code

API RP 520 Recommended Practice for the Design and
Installation of Pressure Relieving Systems in
Refineries: Part 1 - Design; Part II - Installation
API RP 521 Guide for Pressure Relief and Depressuring
Systems
API Standard 526 Flanged Steel Safety Relief Valves
API Standard 527 Commercial Seat Tightness of Safety
Relief Valves with Metal to Metal Seats
API Standard 2000 Venting Atmospheric and Low
Pressure StorageTanks
API Guide for Inspection of Refinery Equipment
Chapter XVI - Pressure Relieving Devices

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

United Engineering Center
345 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017

Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code

Section I - Power Boilers
Section II - Materials
Section IV - Heating Boilers
Section VII - Care of Power Boilers
Section VIII - Pressure Vessels
Section IX - Welding and Brazing Qualifications

Association Francaise de Normalisation

Tour Europe
Cedex 7
F-92049 Paris La Defence, France

NFE 29-410 to 420

Australian Standards Association

No. 1 The Crescent Homebush
New South Wales 2140, Australia

AS1271 Safety Valves, Other Valves, Liquid Level Gages

and Other Fittings for Boilers and Unfired
Pressure Vessels 1990 Edition
AS1210 Unfired Pressure Vessels (EAA Unfired
Pressure Vessel Code) 1989 Edition
AS1200 Pressure Equipment 1994 Edition

British Standards Institute

389 Chiswick High Road
London W4 4AL, England

BS6759 Parts 1, 2 and 3 Safety Valves

Canadian Standards Association

178 Rexdale Boulevard
Toronto, Ontario M9W 1R3

CSA Z299.2.85 (R1991) - Quality Assurance Program Category 1

CSA Z299.3.85 (R1991) - Quality Assurance Program Category 3
CSA Z299.4.85 (R1991) - Quality Assurance Program Category 4

Chlorine Institute Inc.

2001 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Pamphlet 39 Type 1-1/2" JQ

Pamphlet 41 Type 4" JQ

CC NASTHOL
Shenogina Street
123007 Moscow, Russia

GOST R Certification System

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Deutsche Institut Fur Normung

Burggrafenstrasse 6
D-10787 Berlin, Germany

DIN 50049 Materials Testing Certificates

Comite Europeen de Normalisation

(Europeon Committee for Standardisation)
rue de Stassart 36
B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

CEN Standards for Safety Valves

Pressure Equipment Directive

Heat Exchange Institute, Inc.

1300 Sumner Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115

HEI Standards for Closed Feedwater Heaters

International Organisation for Standardisation

Case Postale 56
CH-1211
Geneve 20, Switzerland

ISO-9000 Quality System

ISO-4126 Safety Valves - General Requirements

I.S.C.I.R. Central
Bucuresti
Frumoasa nr. 26, Romania

Romanian Pressure Vessel Standard

Japanese Industrial Standard Committee

Japanese Standards Association
1-24, Akasaka 4-chome, Minato-ku
Tokyo 107 Japan

JIS B8210 Spring Loaded Safety Valves

for Steam Boilers and Pressure Vessels.

Manufacturers' Standardization Society of the Valve

and Fitting Industry
1815 North Fort Myer Drive
Arlington, VA 22209

SP-6

Ministerie Van Sociale Zaken En Werkgelegenheid

Directoraat Generaal Van De Arbeid
Dienst Voor Het Stoomwezen
2517 KL Gravenhage - Eisenhowerlaan 102 Holland

Stoomwezen Specification A1301

National Association of Corrosion Engineers

P.O. Box 1499
Houston, TX 77001

NACE MR0175

National Board of Boiler and Pressure

Vessel inspectors
1055 Crupper Avenue
Columbus, OH 43229

NB-25 National Board Inspectors Code

NB-65 National Board Authorization to Repair ASME
and National Board Stamped Safety Valves
and Relief Valves

National Fire Protection Association

Batterymarch Park
Quincy, MA 02269

NFPA 30 Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code

Schweizerisher Verein fur

Druckbehalteruberwachung (SVDB)
Postfach 35
8030 Zurich, Switzerland

Specifications 602 - Safety Valves for Boilers and

Pressure Vessels

Den Norske Trykkbeholderkomite (TBK)

Norsk Verkstedsindustris Standardiseringssentral
Oscarsgate 20, Oslo, Norway

TBK General Rules for Pressure Vessels

Verband der Technischen

Uberwachungs-Vereine e. V (TUV)
Kurfurstenstrafe 56
4300 Essen 1, Germany

TRD 421 AD-Merkblatt A2

Finishes of Contact Faces of Connecting End

Flanges
SP-9 MSS Spot Facing Standard
SP-55 Quality Standard for Steel Castings

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