EQUIPMENT PRESSURE VESSELS
API 510 Pressure Vessel Inspection Code: In-Service Inspection, Rating, Repair, and Alteration
Covers the in-service inspection, repair, alteration, and rerating activities for pressure vessels and the pressure-relieving devices protecting these vessels. This inspection code applies to most refining and chemical process vessels that have been placed in service. This includes:
• vessels constructed in accordance with an applicable construction code;
• vessels constructed without a construction code (non-code)—a vessel not fabricated to a recognized construction code and meeting no known recognized standard; • vessels constructed and approved as jurisdictional special based upon jurisdiction acceptance of particular design, fabrication, inspection, testing, and installation; • non-standard vessels—a vessel fabricated to a recognized construction code but has lost its nameplate or stamping.
Companion document to RP 572
RP 572 Inspection Practices for Pressure Vessels
Supplements API 510 by providing pressure vessel inspectors with information that can improve skills and increase basic knowledge of inspection practices. This recommended practice (RP) describes inspection practices for the various types of pressure vessels (e.g. drums, heat exchangers, columns, reactors, air coolers, spheres) used in petroleum refineries and chemical plants. This RP addresses vessel components, inspection planning processes, inspection intervals, methods of inspection and assessment, methods of repair, records, and reports. API 510 has requirements and expectations for inspection of pressure vessels.
Companion document to API 510
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