List of ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC)

What is ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC)?

The ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC) is an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) standard that provides rules for the design, manufacture, and inspection of boilers and pressure vessels. A pressure component designed and manufactured according to the standard will have a long, useful service life, and one that ensures the protection of human life and property. Volunteers, who are nominated to its committees based on their technical expertise and ability to contribute to the writing, revising, interpreting, and administering the document, write BPVC.

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BPVC received public outrage after several severe explosions in the state of Massachusetts. On March 20, 1905, a boiler burst into flames at the Grover Shoe Factory in Bretton, Massachusetts, killing 58 people and injuring 150. Thereafter, on 6 December 1906, the boiler exploded at the PN Harney Shoe Company factory. In Lynn, Massachusetts. As a result, the state of Massachusetts implemented the first legal code based on ASME regulations in 1907 for the manufacture of steam boilers.

ASME formed the Board of Boiler Rules in 1911 before becoming the ASME Boiler Code Committee. This committee put in the formwork for the first edition of the ASME Boiler Code - Rules for the manufacture of stationary boilers and pressure for acceptable work, issued in 1914 and published in 1915.

The first publication was known as the 1914 edition, and over time evolved into the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, which today has more than 92,000 copies in use in more than 100 countries around the world.

The first edition of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (1914 edition) included a book, 114 pages long, measuring 5 x 8 inches, developed in today's edition, which includes 28 books, including twelve atomic powers. Are dedicated to construction and inspection. Plant components and two code case books. (The 2001 edition of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code exceeds 16,000 pages.) The 28 books are either standards that provide rules for making a component or are supporting documents such as materials, nondestructive exams, and welding and brazing qualifications.

After the first version of the Code, the verification that produced the code was carried out by independent inspectors, resulting in a wide range of interpretations. Hence in February 1919, the National Board of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel (BPV) Inspectors was formed.

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Code Section - List of ASME BPVC Sections

Section I - Rules for the Construction of power boilers.

Section II - Materials

Block III - Rules for the construction of nuclear facility components

Section IV - Rules for the manufacture of heating boilers

Section V - Nondestructive Examination

Section VI - Recommended rules for the care and operation of heating boilers

Section VII - Recommended Guidelines for the Care of Power Boilers

Section VIII - Rules for the construction of pressure vessels

Section IX - Welding and Brazing Qualification

Section X - Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Pressure Vessels

Section XI - Rules for in-service inspection of nuclear power plant components

Section XII - Rules for construction and continuous service of transport tanks

Some sections have multiple subdivisions/divisions; Section VIII, described in more detail (see below).

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Addenda

An addendum, which includes additions and modifications to individual sections of the code, is issued according to a particular version of the code until the next version.

Interpretations

The interpretation of ASME is issued accordingly to present technical questions relevant to a particular section of the code. Interpretations are also available via the Internet.

Code case

Code cases provide rules that allow the use of alternative methods of content and construction that are not covered by existing BPVC rules. For cases that have been adopted, they will appear in the appropriate Code of Cases book: "Boilers and Pressure Vessels" and "Nuclear Components."

ASME BPVC Section VIII ( ASME Section has 3 Departments)

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Division 1

This division covers mandatory requirements, specific prohibitions, and non-guiding guidelines for materials, design, manufacture, inspection and testing, markings and reports, exaggerated protection, and certification of internal or external pressurized pressure vessels, which is 15 psi (100 PPA).

The pressure vessel can either be fired or expelled. The pressure may be from external sources, or from the application of heating from an indirect or direct source or any combination thereof.

The division is not numbered in the traditional methods (Part 1 & Part 2, etc.), but is structured with subdivisions and parts consisting of letters followed by a number. The structure is as follows:

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Membership A - General Requirements

Part UG - General Requirements for all methods of construction and all materials.

Pressure B - Requirements relating to the methods of building pressure vessels.

Part UW - Requirement for the pressure vessels manufactured by the welding.

Part UF - Forging Pressure Vessels Made by Forging.

Part UB - Requirements of pressure vessels manufactured by brazing.

Requirements C - Requirements related to material classes.

Part UCS - Requirements of pressure vessels for the construction of carbon and low alloy steel.

Part UNF - Requirements for pressure vessels constructed of non-ferrous material.

UHA- Requirements for pressure vessel constructed of High Alloy.

Part UCI -  Requirements for pressure vessel constructed of cast iron.

Part UCL - Materials required for welded pressure vessels Construction of materials with corrosion-resistant integral cladding, weld metal overlay cladding, or applied linings.

Part UCD - Requirements for pressure vessels of cast ductile iron.

Part UHT - Requirements of pressure vessels for the manufacture of ferritic steels with tensile properties enhanced by heat treatment.

Part ULW - Requirements for pressure vessels manufactured by layered construction

Part ULT - Alternative rules for pressure vessels for the manufacture of materials with high allowable stresses at low temperatures.

Part UHX - Rules for the shell and tube heat exchanger.

Part UIG - Requirements for Pressure Vessels Construction of Accumulated Graphite.

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Division 2 - Optional Rules

This division covers mandatory requirements, specific prohibitions, and non-guiding guidance for materials, design, manufacture, inspection, testing, markings, and reports, exaggerated protection, and certification of internal or external pressurized pressure vessels that 15 PSI (103 PPA) ) More than.

The pressure vessel can either be fired or expelled. The pressure may be from external sources, of the application of heating from an indirect or direct source to a process or any combination of both.

The rules contained in this section may be used as an alternative to the minimum requirements specified in Division 1. Usually, the rules of division 2 are more important in Division 1 than in Material 1, with respect to the material, design, and nondestructive examinations but allow for high design stress intensity values.

Division 3 - Optional Rules for the Construction of High-Pressure Vessels

This division covers mandatory injunctions and non-authoritative guidance for more than 10,000 psi (70,000 kPa) for mandatory requirements, materials, design, construction, inspection and testing, markings and reports, superheated protection, and certification of internal or external pressurized pressure vessels. Does.

The pressure vessel can either be fired or expelled. The pressure may be from external sources, indirect or direct sources, process reaction, or any combination thereof may result from the application of heating.

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