Piping Codes and Standards
1.ASTM Materials for Piping
a.Section I: Iron and Steel Products
-Vol. 01.01: Steel Piping, Tubing and Fittings
-Vol. 01.02: Ferrous Castings; Ferroalloys
-Vol. 01.03: Steel Plate, Sheet, Strip, Wire; Stainless Steel Bar
-Vol. 01.04: Steel Structural, Reinforcing Pressure Vessel, Railway
-Vol. 01.05: Steel Bars, Forgings, Bearing, Chain, Springs
b.Section II: Non-Ferrous Metal Products
-Vol. 02.04: Non-Ferrous Metals
c.Section VIII: Plastics
-Vol. 08.04: Plastic Pipe and Building Products
2.Codes for Pressure Piping
-ASME B31.1: Power Piping
-ASME B31.3: Process Piping
-ASME B31.4: Pipeline Transportation Systems for Liquid Hydrocarbons and Other Liquids
-ASME B31.8: Gas Transmission and Distribution Piping Systems
-ASME B31.11: Slurry Transportation Piping Systems
3.Design and Dimensional Codes
a.Pipe
-API 5L: Specification for Line Pipe
-ASME B31.1, B31.3, B31.4, B31.8, B31.11
-ASME B36.10M: Welded and Seamless Wrought Steel Pipe
-ASME B36.19M: Stainless Steel Pipe
b.Fittings
-ASME B16.9: Factory-Made Wrought Steel Buttwelding Fittings
-ASME B16.11: Forged Fittings, Socket-welding and Threaded
-MSS SP-43: Wrought Stainless Steel Buttwelding Fittings
-MSS SP-83: Steel Pipe Unions, Socket-welding and Threaded
-MSS SP-95: Swage(d) Nipples and Bull Plugs
c.Flanges
-ASME B16.5: Pipe Flanges and Flanged Fittings (NPS ½ to 24)
-ASME B16.36: Orifice Flanges
-ASME B16.47: Large Diameter Flanges (NPS 26 to 60)
-ASME B46.1: Surface Textures (Surface Roughness, Waviness and Lay)
d.Gaskets
-ASME B16.20: Metallic Gaskets for Pipe Flanges
-ASME B16.21: Non-metallic Flat Gaskets for Pipe Flanges
e.Bolts and Nuts
-ASME B1.1: Unified Inch Screw Threads
-ASME B18.2.1: Square and Hex Bolts and Screws (Inch Series)
-ASME B18.2.2: Square and Hex Nuts (Inch Series)
f.General and Compact Design Valves
-ASME B16.34: Valves-Flanged, Threaded and Welding End
-API 602: Compact Steel Gate Valves
-BS 5352: Steel Wedge Gate, Globe and Check Valves 50mm and Smaller
g.Gate Valves
-API 600: Steel Gate Valves, Flanged and Buttwelding Ends
-BS 1414: Steel Wedge Gate Valves (Flanged and Buttwelding Ends)
h.Globe Valves
-BS 1873: Specification for Steel Globe and Globe Stop and Check Valves (Flanged and Buttwelding Ends)
i.Check Valves
-API 594: Check Valves: Wafer, Wafer-Lug, and Double Flanged Type
-BS 1868: Steel Check Valves (Flanged and Buttwelding Ends)
j.Ball Valves
-API 608: Metal Ball Valves, Flanged and Buttwelding Ends
k.Butterfly Valves
-API 609: Butterfly Valves: Double Flanged, Lug-and Wafer-type
l.Inspection and Testing for Valves
-API 598: Valve Inspection and Test
-API 607: Fire Test for Soft Seated Quarter Turn Valves
-BS 6755: Testing of Valves
m.Dimensions of Valves
-ASME B16.10: Face to Face and End to End Dimensions of Valves
-BS 2080: Face to Face, Centre to Face, End to End and Center to End Dimensions Valves
4.Other Codes and Standards
a.End Preparation of Piping Components
-ASME B1.20.1: Pipe Threads, General Purpose (Inch)
-ASME B16.25: Buttwelding Ends
b.Corrosion
-NACE RP-01: Protection of Austenitic Stainless Steel in Refineries Against Stress Corrosion Cracking by Use of Neutralizing Solutions During Shutdown
-NACE MR-0175: Sulfide Stress Cracking Resistant Metallic Materials for Oil Field Equipment
