API standards for Refining

The following publications are currently being worked on within the API Committee on
Refinery Equipment.
Documents marked with an asterisk (*) are expected to be published in 2014.
* Recommended Practice 505, Recommended Practice for Classification of Locations for
Electrical Installations at Petroleum Facilities Classified as Class I, Zone 0, Zone 1 and Zone 2,
2nd Edition
API 510, Pressure Vessel Inspection Code: Maintenance Inspection, Rating, Repair, and
Alteration, 10th Edition - Published
* Standard 520-1, Sizing, Selection, and Installation of Pressure-relieving Devices in Refineries,
Part ISizing and Selection, 9th Edition
Standard 521, Guide for Pressure-relieving and Depressuring Systems, 6th Edition - Published
* Standard 527, Seat Tightness of Pressure Relief Valves, 4th Edition
* Standard 530, Calculation of Heater-tube Thickness in Petroleum Refineries, 7th Edition
ANSI/API Standard 534, Heat Recovery Steam Generators for Combustion Turbine Exhaust
Applications, 3rd Edition
Recommended Practice 535, Burners for Fired Heaters in General Refinery Services, 3rd Edition Published
Recommended Practice 536, Post Combustion NOx Control for Equipment in General Refinery
Services, 3rd Edition
Standard 537, Flare Details for General Refinery and Petrochemical Service, 3rd Edition
* Recommended Practice 538, Industrial Fired Boilers, 1st Edition
Recommended Practice 540, Electrical Installations in Petroleum Processing Plants, 5th Edition
* Standard 541, Form-Wound Squirrel-Cage Induction Motors 500 Horsepower and Larger, 5th
Edition
* Recommended Practice 545, Lightning Protection for Aboveground Storage Tanks, 3rd
Edition
* Standard 547, General-purpose Form-wound Squirrel Cage Induction Motors-250 Horsepower
and Larger, 2nd Edition
* Recommended Practice 551, Process Measurement Instrumentation, 2nd Edition
* Recommended Practice 552, Transmission Systems, 2nd Edition
* Standard 560, Fired Heaters for General Refinery Services, 5th Edition
Standard 561, Reforming Furnaces for Hydrogen and Syngas Production, 1st Edition
Recommended Practice 565, Reactor Furnaces in Sulfur Recovery Units for General Refinery
Service, 1st Edition
Recommended Practice 575, Inspection of Atmospheric & Low Pressure Storage Tanks, 3rd
Edition - Published
Recommended Practice 583, Corrosion Under Insulation and Fireproofing, 1st Edition Published
Recommended 584, Integrity Operating Windows, 1st Edition - Published

Recommended Practice 585, Pressure Equipment Integrity Incident Investigation, 1st Edition Published
Recommended Practice 591, Process Valve Qualification Procedure, 5th Edition - Published
Standard 602, Steel Gate, Globe, and Check Valves for Sizes DN 100 and Smaller for the
Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries, 10th Edition
* Standard 612, Petroleum, Petrochemical and Natural Gas IndustriesSteam Turbines
Special-Purpose Applications, 7th Edition
* Standard 617, Axial and Centrifugal Compressors and Expander-compressors for Petroleum,
Chemical and Gas Industry Services, 8th Edition
Standard 618, Reciprocating Compressors for Petroleum, Chemical and Gas Industry Services,
6th Edition
* Standard. 620-A1, Addendum 1 to Design and Construction of Large, Welded, Low-pressure
Storage Tanks, 12th Edition
Standard 624, Type Testing of Rising Stem Valves Equipped with Flexible Graphite Packing for
Fugitive Emissions, 1st Edition - Published
* Standard 625-A2, Addendum 2 to Tank Systems for Refrigerated Liquefied Gas Storage, 1st
Edition
* Standard 650-A1, Addendum 1 to Welded Tanks for Oil Storage, 12th Edition
* Recommended Practice 651, Cathodic Protection of Aboveground Storage Tanks, 4th Edition
* Recommended Practice 652, Linings of Aboveground Petroleum Storage Tank Bottoms, 4th
Edition
* Standard 653, Tank Inspection, Repair, Alteration, and Reconstruction, 5th Edition
* Standard 660, Shell-and-tube Heat Exchangers, 9th Edition
Standard 663, Hairpin-type Heat Exchangers, 1st Edition - Published
Standard 664, Spiral Plate Heat Exchangers, 1st Edition - Published
Standard 667, Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers for General Refinery Services, 1st Edition
Standard 668, Brazed Aluminum Plate-fin Heat Exchangers for General Refinery Services, 1st
Edition
Standard 669, Heat Recovery Systems, 1st Edition
* Standard 670, Machinery Protection Systems, 5th Edition
* Standard 672, Packaged, Integrally Geared Centrifugal Air Compressors for Petroleum,
Chemical, and Gas Industry Services, 5th Edition
* Standard 673, Centrifugal Fans for Petroleum, Chemical and Gas Industry Services, 3rd Edition
* Standard 681, Liquid Ring Vacuum Pumps and Compressors, 2nd Edition
Standard 682, PumpsShaft Sealing Systems for Centrifugal and Rotary Pumps, 4th Edition Published
* Recommended Practice 684, Tutorial on the API Standard Paragraphs Covering Rotor
Dynamics and Balance (An Introduction to Lateral Critical and Train Torsional Analysis and Rotor
Balancing), 3rd Edition
* Recommended Practice 687, Rotor Repair, 2nd Edition
Recommended Practice 691, Machinery Risk Based Inspection, 1st Edition
* Standard 692, Compressor Dry Gas Seals, 1st Edition

Recommended Practice 934-A, Materials and Fabrication Requirements for 2-1/4/3Cr Alloy
Steel Heavy Wall Pressure Vessels for High Temperature, High Pressure Hydrogen Service, 3rd
Edition
Recommended Practice 934-C, Materials and Fabrication of 1-1/4CR - 1/2Mo Steel Heavy Wall
Pressure Vessels for High Pressure Hydrogen Service Operating at or Below 825F (441C), 3rd
Edition
Recommended Practice 934-F, Minimum Pressurization Temperatures, MPT, for Heavy Wall
Pressure Vessels, 1st Edition
Recommended Practice 934-G, Design, Material, and Construction Considerations of Coke
Drums, 1st Edition
Recommended Practice 934-H, Maintenance Unique to 2 1/4Cr-1Mo and 2 1/4Cr-1Mo-V Steel
Pressure Vessels in High Pressure, High Temperature Hydrogen-Containing Service, 1st Edition
Recommended Practice 934-I, Periodic Inspection of 2 1/4Cr-1Mo and 2 1/4Cr-1Mo-V Steel
Pressure Vessels in High Pressure, High Temperature Hydrogen-Containing Service, 1st Edition
* Standard 936, Refractory Installation Quality Control Specification - Inspection & Testing
Monolithic Refractory Linings & Materials, 4th Edition
Recommended Practice 939-C, Guidelines for Avoiding Sulfidation Failures in Oil Refineries, 2nd
Edition
Recommended Practice 941, Steels for Hydrogen Service at Elevated Temperatures and
Pressures in Petroleum Refineries and Petrochemical Plants, 8th Edition
* Technical Report 941-A1, Addendum 1 to The Technical Basis Document for API
Recommended Practice 941 1st Edition
* Technical Report 942-A, Materials, Fabrication, and Repair Considerations for Hydrogen
Reformer Furnace Outlet Pigtails and Manifolds, 1st Edition
* Technical Report 942-B, Material, Fabrication and Repair Considerations for Austenitic Alloys
Subject to Embrittlement and Cracking in High Temperature Refinery Service, 1st Edition
Recommended Practice 945, Avoiding Environmental Cracking in Amine Units, 4th Edition
Recommended Practice 970, Work Process for Development of Corrosion Control Diagrams, 1st
Edition
Standard 2000, Venting Atmospheric and Low-pressure Storage Tanks, 7th Edition - Published
Standard 2015, Requirements for Safe Entry and Cleaning of Petroleum Storage Tanks, 7th
Edition - Published
Recommended Practice 2016, Guidelines and Procedures for Entering and Cleaning Petroleum
Storage Tanks, 2nd Edition