API
API 610
Centrifugal Pumps for Petroleum, Petrochemical and Natural Gas Industries
The pump standard for refinery service, covering design, materials, nozzle loads, baseplates and testing. Its nozzle load limits are deliberately modest, which is why pipe strain is such a common cause of repeated seal and bearing failures.
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Where it is applied on this site
- Pipe supports and thermal expansion — why you cannot just bolt it downPiping
- Anchors, guides and restraint schemes — deciding where the pipe may movePiping
- Spring hanger selection — variable, constant, and the pin nobody pulledPiping
- Nozzle loads and allowables — the constraint that really governs hot pipingPiping
- Pump piping layout — the suction side is where the decisions are madePiping
- Pumps — head, NPSH and why cavitation is a suction problemRotating Equipment