Api Std 1160 pdf download.Managing System Integrity for Hazardous Liquid Pipelines Integrity must be built into pipeline systems from initial planning, design, and construction. Integrity management of a pipeline starts with the sound design and construction of the pipeline. Guidance for new construction is provided in a number of consensus standards, including ASME B31.4, as well as the pipeline safety...
API RP 2001 pdf download.Fire Protection in Refneries 1 Purpose and Scope 1.1 Purpose The purpose of this recommended practice is to provide a better understanding of refnery fre protection and the steps needed to promote the safe storage, handling, and processing of petroleum and petroleum products in refneries. A basic premise of this standard is that fre prevention provides...
API RP 2021 pdf download.Management of Atmospheric Storage Tank Fires 1 General 1.1 PURPOSE This recommended practice provides experience-based information to enhance the understanding of fires in atmo- spheric storage tanks containing flammable and combustible materials. It presents a systematic management approach which can assist tank fire prevention. If fires do occur, this information can help responders optimize fire suppression...
API RP 14J pdf download.Recommended Practice for Design and Hazards Analysis for Offshore Production Facilities 1 General 1.1 PURPOSE The purpose of this recommended practice is to assemble into one document useful procedures and guidelines for plan- ning, designing and arranging offshore production facilities, and performing a hazards analysis on open-type offshore pro- duction facilities. This will promote safe, pollution...
API Std 653 pdf download.Tank Inspection, Repair, AIlteration, and Reconstruction 1.1 INTRODUCTION 1.1.1 This standard covers carbon and low alloy steel tanks built to API Standard 650 and its predecessor API 12C. This standard provides minimum requirements for maintaining the integrity of welded or riveted, nonrefrigerated, atmospheric pressure, aboveground storage tanks after they have been placed in service. It covers...
API Publ 4261 pdf download.Alcohols and Ethers—A Technical Assessment of Their Application as Fuels and Fuel Components 1.1 GENERAL 1.1.1 In 1971 the American Petroleum Institute (API) stud- ied the feasibility of blending ethanol with gasoline to aug- ment domestic fuel supplies for transportation. I After the first Arab oil embargo in 1974, interest in using alcohols as fuels expanded...
API MPMS 3.1B pdf download.Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards Chapter 3—Tank Gauging 3.1B.1 Scope This standard covers level measurement of liquid hydro- carbons in stationary, aboveground, atmospheric storage tanks using automatic tank gauges (ATGs). The standard dis- cusses automatic tank gauging in general, accuracy, installa- tion, commissioning, calibration and veriÞcation of ATGs that measure either innage or ullage. It covers...
API IP 1585 pdf download.GUIDANCE IN THE CLEANING OF AIRPORT HYDRANT SYSTEMS This publication is intended to give operators of airport fuel hydrant systems guidance in the following: (a) determining the state of cleanliness of existing hydrant systems and possible causes of contamination; (b) methods of cleaning hydrant systems that are showing signs of contamination with particulate material, water and...
API Publ 4700 pdf download.PRIMER FOR EVALUATING ECOLOGICAL RISK AT PETROLEUM RELEASE SITES The first step in evaluating ecological risk is to locate applicable Federal, state, or local guidance and regulations (“regulatory considerations” in Figure 2). Some spill or release conditions may be covered by existing regulations, and this primer’s users should be aware of how these regulatory considerations apply...
API MPMS 3.6 pdf download.Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards Chapter 3—Tank Gauging 2 Scope This standard covers selection, installation, commission- ing, calibration and verification of Hybrid Tank Measurement Systems (HTMSs) for the measurement of level, static mass, observed and standard volume, and observed and reference density in tanks storing petroleum and petroleum products. It is up to the user to...