API RP 1639 pdf download.Owner/Operator’s Guide to Operation and Maintenance of Vapor Recovery Systems at Gasoline Dispensing Facilities 1 Purpose and Scope This Recommended Practice (RP) is designed to provide guidance to owners and operators of gasoline dispensing facilities (GDF) to effectively operate and maintain Stage I and Stage II vapor recovery systems. This guide does not address the maintenance...
API RP 945 pdf download.Avoiding Environmental Cracking in Amine Units 1 Scope This recommended practice discusses environmental cracking problems of carbon steel equipment in amine units. Stress corrosion cracking of stainless steels in amine units is beyond the scope of this document although there have been isolated reports of such problems. This practice does provide guidelines for carbon steel construction...
API St 613 pdf download.Special Purpose Gear Units for Petroleum, Chemical, and Gas Industry Services 1.5.15 maximum continuous speed (in revolutions per minute) is the speed at least equal to 105% of the rated pinion speed for variable-speed units and is the rated pinion speed for constant-speed units. 1.5.16 mechanical rating is the gear unit rated power (see 1.5.9) multiplied...
API RP 2216 pdf download.Ignition Risk of Hydrocarbon Liquids and Vapors by Hot Surfaces in the Open Air 1.1 SCOPE This recommended practice provides information concern- ing the potential for ignition of hydrocarbons that are exposed to hot surfaces in the open air. Hydrocarbon liquids, when heated sufficiently, can ignite without the application of a flame or spark. The ignition...
API RP 85 pdf download.Use of Subsea Wet-gas Flowmeters in Allocation Measurement Systems 1.2 LIQUID HYDROCARBON MEASUREMENT A central problem that must be addressed for those using wet gas meters is the determination of the liquid hydrocarbon ßow rates of a well stream. A key issue is that water and hydrocarbon liquids co-exist in the liquid phase of the stream....
API MPMS 4.2 pdf download.Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards Chapter 4—Proving Systems 1.1 SCOPE This chapter outlines the essential elements of provers that do, and also do not, accumulate a minimum of 10,000 whole meter pulses between detector switches, and provides design and installation details for the types of displacement provers that are currently in use. The provers discussed in...
API RP 11V8 pdf download.Recommended Practice for Gas Lift System Design and Performance Prediction An orifice can be used in lieu of a valve at the expected depth of injection. The orifice consists of the orifice (port) and the reverse flow check, but does not have a bellows and stem, so it is not a valve that can open or...
API RP 7G pdf download.Recommended Practice for Drill Stem Design and Operating Limits 14 Special Processes 14.1 DRILL STEM SPECIAL PROCESSES 14.1.1 Usually the materials used in the manufacture of down hole drilling equipment (tool joints, drill collars, stabilizers and subs) are AISI–4135, 4137, 4140, or 4145 steels. 14.1.2 These are alloy steels and are normally in the heat treated...
API MPMS 12.2.2 pdf download.Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards Chapter 12—Calculation of Petroleum Quantities 1 Purpose When most of the older standards were written, mechani- cal desk calculators were widely used for calculating mea- surement documentation, and tabulated values were used more widely than is the case today. Rules for rounding and the choice of how many Þgures to enter...
API St 2560 pdf download.Reconciliation of Liquid Pipeline Quantities 1 Introduction 1.1 In the ideal world every drop of liquid received into a pipeline system and every drop delivered out of the system, as well as all liquid inventory within the system, would be mea- sured and accounted for precisely, and a comparison of all receipts and all deliveriesÑadjusted for...