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Machine operators reading graphic symbols on process equipment in a factor that adhere to ANSI/ISA S5.5-1985.
ANSI | Labels and Symbols | Manufacturing | Piping

ANSI/ISA S5.5-1985: Graphic Symbols for Process Displays

ByAlexandra Schirn October 7, 2024June 4, 2025

Examples of process equipment popularly used in industries—such as refineries, chemical plants, and wastewater treatment plants—are pumps, valves, vessels, filters, coolers, boilers, engines, compressors, storage…

Steel oil piping system adhering to ASME B31.8-2022.
ANSI | Piping

ASME B31.8-2022: Gas Transmission In Piping Systems

ByAlexandra Schirn January 17, 2023May 21, 2025

66% of crude oil and refined products in the United States are delivered via pipelines, and nearly all natural gas is moved through pipelines. Products…

The contact face of pipe flanges, bright yellow and finished to MSS SP-6-2021.
ANSI | Piping

MSS SP-6-2021: Pipe Flanges, Standard Finishes for Contact Faces

ByBrad Kelechava November 2, 2021June 4, 2025

Pipe flanges are integral for providing support, sealing and/or blocking of the flow of fluids, and allowing for the attachment of other items in a…

Worker covered in PPE in the plains welding a black pipeline with proper ASME B31Q-2021 pipeline personnel qualifications.
ANSI | Conventional Fuels | Piping

Pipeline Personnel Qualification (ASME B31Q-2021)

ByBrad Kelechava June 16, 2021May 28, 2025

For developing a Pipeline Personnel Qualification Program, professionals turn to ASME B31Q-2021: Pipeline Personnel Qualification. The Advantages of Pipelines for Hazardous Liquid Transport Several options…

Welder shooting sparks while working on steel pipeline flanges with ANSI/MSS SP-44-2019
ANSI | Welding

ANSI/MSS SP-44-2019: Steel Pipeline Flanges

ByBrad Kelechava May 18, 2020May 29, 2025

An American National Standard developed and published by the Manufacturers Standardization Society (MSS) of the Valve and Fittings Industry, Inc., MSS SP-44, which was last revised…

Red flanges as ANSI Class Flanges in ASME B16.5-2020.
ANSI | Piping

“ANSI Class” Ratings of Pipe Flanges

ByBrad Kelechava August 28, 2018May 30, 2025

“ANSI class” is the designation for pressure-temperature ratings of pipe flanges. In its denotation, the word Class is followed a by dimensionless number. This includes…

Killed steel being prepared over hot flame
ANSI | Metals and Mining | Steel

Killed Steel

ByBrad Kelechava August 20, 2018May 30, 2025

If human eyes could examine the world on the atomic level, they’d witness a competing collection of tiny particles joining together, reacting or fortifying one…

Water dripping from an old pipe, the asbestos in which correlates mesothelioma with drinking water.
ANSI | Drinking Water

Keeping Asbestos Out of Drinking Water

ByGuest Contributor June 21, 2018May 29, 2025

Water contamination is something often associated with deadly illnesses in developing countries, but various forms of tainted water are running through rivers, settling in watersheds,…

Seamless steel pipes that follow ASTM A106 19
ANSI | Piping

ASTM A106-19: Seamless Carbon Steel Pipe Standard Specification for High-Temperature Service

ByBrad Kelechava June 20, 2018May 29, 2025

Carbon steel piping transports fluids in an assortment of industries, but, for high-pressure and temperature applications, the welded joints on its cross-section are not ideal….

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