L & T ENGINEERING INSTRUCTION No:

LARSEN & TOUBRO LIMITED

LIST OF APPLICABLE CODES

(MECHANICAL)

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INDEX

AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE (API)................................................................................3

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS (ASME).................................................3

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING AND MATERIALS (ASTM)................................................4

INDIAN STANDARDS (IS)............................................................................................................. 4

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORROSION ENGINEERS (NACE)............................................5

BRITISH STANDARDS (BS)......................................................................................................... 5

TUBE EXCHANGERS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION........................................................5

EXPANSION JOINT MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION............................................................5

The Standards mentioned below shall be of latest editions:

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AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE (API)

API 610

Centrifugal Pumps for General Refinery Service.

API 619

Screw Compressors for Refinery Service

API 620

Design & Construction of Large Welded Low Pressure Storage Tanks

API 650

Welded Steel Tanks for Oil Storage

API 661

Air Cooled Heat Exchangers

API 672

Centrifugal Compressors for Refinery Service

API 674

Positive Displacement Pumps Reciprocating

API 675

Positive Displacement Pumps Constant Volume

API 676

Positive Displacement Pumps Rotary Pumps

API RP 520 Recommended Practices for Sizing, Selection and Installation of

(Part I and II) Pressure Relieving Devices in Refineries.
API RP 521

Recommended Practices for Pressure Relief And De- Pressurizing System

API RP 2003 Protection Against Ignition Arising Out Of Static, Lightning and Stray Currents
API 2000
2

Venting For Atmospheric and Low Pressure Storage Tanks.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS (ASME)

ASME Section V

Non Destructive Testing

ASME Section II
Part A, B & D

Ferrous & Non Ferrous Material Specifications & Properties

ASME Section VIII Div I

ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code

ASME Section VIII Div II

ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code ( Alternative Rules )

ASME Section IX

Welding & Brazing Qualification

ASME B16.5 Pipe Flanges and Flanged Fittings NPS Though NPS 24
ASME B16.11 Forged Steel Fittings, Socket-Welding and Threaded
ASME B16.20 Metallic Gaskets for Pipe Flanges Ring Joint, Spiral-Wound and Jacketed
ASME B16.34 Valves-Flanged, Threaded And Welding End
ASME B16.47 Large Diameter Steel Flanges NPS26 through NPS 60
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ANSI B36.10 Welding & Seamless Wrought Steel Pipe
ANSI B73.1

Centrifugal Pumps for General Purpose

ASME PTC 4.1

Performance Testing For Water Tube Boilers

ASME PTC 12.3

Performance Testing For Deaerators

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING AND MATERIALS (ASTM)

ASTM A193/193M

Alloy Steel and Stainless Steel Bolting Materials for High Temperature Service.

ASTM A194/194M
Carbon and Alloy Steel Nuts for Bolts for High-Pressure or HighTemperature Service or Both.
ASTM A320/A320M

Alloy-Steel Bolting Materials for Low-Temperature Service

ASTM A350/A350M Carbon And Low-Alloy Steel Forgings, Requiring Notch Toughness Testing For
Piping Components.
ASTM A350/A352M Steel Castings Ferritic and Martensitic For Pressure-Containing Parts Suitable
For Low-Temperature Service.
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IBR

INDIAN STANDARDS (IS)

Indian Boiler Regulation

IS 803 Code of Practice for Design, Fabrication and Erection of Vertical Mild Steel Cylindrical
Welded Oil Storage Tanks
IS 807 Code of Practice for Design, Manufacturing, Erection, Testing Of Cranes & Hoists
IS 875 Part III Code of Practice for Design Loads ( Other than Earthquake ) for Buildings and
Structures
IS-1239 part I Mild Steel Tubes
IS 1893

Recommendations for Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures

IS 2007

Method for Calibration of Vertical Oil Storage Tanks

IS 2062

Steel for General Structural Purposes

IS 2266

Steel Wire Ropes for General Engineering Purposes

IS 2312

Propeller Type A.C Ventilating Fan

IS 3177
Code of Practice for Design of Overhead Traveling Cranes and Gantry Cranes Other
than Steel Works Cranes.
IS 3588
Axial Flow Fans
IS 4894

Centrifugal Fans

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORROSION ENGINEERS (NACE)

NACE MR-01-75

National Association of Corrosion Engineers

NACE MR-175-2002 Sulfide Stress Cracking Resistant Metallic Materials for Oil Field
Equipment.
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BRITISH STANDARDS (BS)

PD-5500

Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code

BS-5816

Rotary Valve Feeders for Mechanical Handling Equipment

TUBE EXCHANGERS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION

TEMA Shell & Tube Exchangers

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EXPANSION JOINT MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION

EJMA Expansion Bellows / Joints

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