Fitness-For-Service: API 579/ASME FFS-1-2021
What is Fitness-For-Service? Standards for pressurized equipment, such as those developed and published by the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Society of Mechanical […]
Other Valves and Piping
ANSI/MSS SP-25-2018: Standard Marking System for Valves, Fittings, Flanges, and Unions
Connection. It is what human beings crave. For pipes, it is more than a desire. It is essential. Without connectors, pipes would struggle to transfer […]
ASME A112.18.1-2018: Plumbing Supply Fittings
ASME A112.18.1-2018/CSA B125.1-18: Plumbing Supply Fittings has been released. This binational standard, meaning that it was jointly developed and issued by the American Society of […]
ANSI/HI 9.6.1-2017 – Rotodynamic Pumps Guideline for NPSH Margin
Head—the height at which a pump can raise water up vertically through a discharge pipe or tube—is an important factor in determining the overall performance […]
ANSI/HI 9.6.3-2017 – Rotodynamic (Centrifugal and Vertical) Pumps – Guideline for Allowable Operating Region
During the continuous operation of a rotodynamic pump, a kinetic machine in which energy is imparted to pumped fluid by the means of a rotating […]
Performance Test Codes (PTCs) by ASME
Performance test codes, otherwise known as PTCs, are standard documents, written and published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), that provide uniform rules […]
Software to Calculate Gas or Liquid Flow & Pressure Drop
Today I came across software on CNET that will size orifice plates for given design conditions, compute pressure drop for a given flow, or flow […]