Specifications
Specifications
ANSI (American National Standard Institute) / ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
ANSI / ASME B16.28 Wrought Steel Buttwelding Short Radius Elbows and Returns
ASME B16.36 Orifice Flanges. Coverage is limited to the following: (a) welding neck flanges Classes 300, 400, 600, 900,
1500, and 2500 (b) slip-on and threaded Class 300
ASME B16.47 Large Diameter Steel Flanges: NPS 26 through NPS 60 Metric/Inch Standard
ASME B16.5 Pipe Flanges and Flanged Fittings: NPS 1/2 through 24 - Metric/Inch Standard
ANSI / ASME B16.9 Factory-Made Wrought Steel Buttwelding Fittings. Butt welding fittings, e.g. elbows 90° and returns 180°,
long radius (correspond to ISO 3d), tees and crosses, concentric and eccentric reducers, end caps, lap joint
stub ends.
ASME B36.19M Stainless Steel Pipe. This Standard covers the standardization of dimensions of welded and seamless
ASME B1.1 Unified Inch Screw Threads, UN and UNR Thread Form
API Spec. 6FA Fire Test for Valves. The standard covers the requirements for testing and evaluating the performance of
API Spec 6A and Spec 6D valves when exposed to specifically defined fire conditions
ANSI/API 574 Inspection Practices for Piping System Components. The standard covers the inspection of piping, tubing,
valves (other than control valves) and fittings used in petroleum refineries
ANSI/API STD 594 Check Valves: Flanged, Lug, Wafer and Butt-welding
API 598 Valve Inspection and Testing. The standard covers inspection, supplementary examination, and pressure
test requirements for both resilient-seated and metal-to-metal-seated valves of the gate, globe, plug, ball,
check, and butterfly valves
ANSI/API 600 Bolted Bonnet Steel Gate Valves for Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries - Modified National Adoption
of ISO 10434:1998
API 602 Compact Steel Gate Valves-Flanged Threaded, Welding, and Extended-Body Ends. The standard covers
threaded-end, socket-welding-end, butt-welding-end, and flanged-end compact carbon steel gate valves in
API 603 Corrosion-Resistant, Bolted Bonnet Gate Valves - Flanged and Butt-Welding Ends
ASTM A53 / A53M Standard Specification for Pipe, Steel, Black and Hot Dipped, Zinc Coated, Welded and Seamless
ASTM A105 / A105M Standard Specification for Carbon Steel Forgings for Piping Applications
ASTM A106 / A106M Standard Specification for Seamless Carbon Steel Pipe for High Temperature Service
ASTM A153/A153M Standard Specification for Zinc Coating (Hot-Dip) on Iron and Steel Hardware
ASTM A182 / A182M Standard Specification for Forged or Rolled Alloy and Stainless Steel Pipe Flanges, Forged Fittings, and
ASTM A193 Standard Specification for Alloy-Steel and Stainless Steel Bolting for High Temperature or High
ASTM A216 Standard Specification for Steel Castings, Carbon, Suitable for Fusion Welding, for High-Temperature Service
ASTM A234 / A234M Standard Specification for Piping Fittings of Wrought Carbon Steel and Alloy Steel for Moderate and High
Temperature Service
ASTM A240 / A240M Standard Specification for Chromium and Chromium-Nickel Stainless Steel Plate, Sheet, and Strip for
ASTM A249 / A249M Standard Specification for Welded Austenitic Steel Boiler, Superheater, Heat Exchanger, and Condenser
Tubes
ASTM A262 Standard Practices for Detecting Susceptibility to Intergranular Attack in Austenitic Stainless Steels
ASTM A262 practice E: Copper–Copper Sulfate–Sulfuric Acid Test for Detecting Susceptibility to Intergranular0 Attack
in Austenitic Stainless Steels
ASTM A269 Standard Specification for Seamless and Welded Austenitic Stainless Steel Tubing for General Service
ASTM A270 / A270M Standard Specification for Seamless and Welded Austenitic Stainless Steel Sanitary Tubing
ASTM A276 Standard Specification for Stainless Steel Bars and Shapes
ASTM A312 / A312M Standard Specification for Seamless, Welded, and Heavily Cold Worked Austenitic Stainless Steel Pipes
ASTM A333 Standard Specification for Seamless and Welded Steel Pipe for Low-Temperature Service and Other
ASTM A335 Standard Specification for Seamless Ferritic Alloy-Steel Pipe for High-Temperature Service
ASTM A350 / A350M Standard Specification for Carbon and Low Alloy Steel Forgings, Requiring Notch Toughness Testing for
Piping Components
ASTM A351 / A351M Standard Specification for Castings, Austenitic, for Pressure Containing Parts
ASTM A358 / A358M Standard Specification for Electric Fusion Welded Austenitic Chromium Nickel Stainless Steel Pipe for High
Temperature Service and General Applications
ASTM A403 / A403M Standard Specification for Wrought Austenitic Stainless Steel Piping Fittings
ASTM A420 / A420M Standard Specification for Piping Fittings of Wrought Carbon Steel and Alloy Steel for Low Temperature
Service
ASTM A480 / A480M Standard Specification for General Requirements for Flat Rolled Stainless and Heat Resisting Steel Plate,
Sheet, and Strip ASTM A484 / A484M - 11 Standard Specification for General Requirements for Stainless
Steel Bars, Billets, and Forgings
ASTM A554 Standard Specification for Welded Stainless Steel Mechanical Tubing
ASTM A774 / A774M Standard Specification for As Welded Wrought Austenitic Stainless Steel Fittings for General Corrosive
ASTM A778 Standard Specification for Welded, Unannealed Austenitic Stainless Steel Tubular Products
ASTM A960 Standard Specification for Common Requirements for Wrought Steel Piping Fittings
BS (British Standards)
BS 10 Specification for flanges and bolting for pipes, valves and fittings
BS 21 Specification for pipe threads for tubes and fittings where pressure-tight joints are made on the threads
(metric dimensions)
BS 1042 Measurement of fluid flow in closed conduits. Pressure differential devices. Method of measurement of
pulsating fluid flow in a pipe, by means of orifice plates, nozzles or Venturi tubes
BS 3293 Specification for carbon steel pipe flanges (over 24 inches nominal size) for the petroleum industry
BS 3799 Specification for steel pipe fittings, screwed and socket-welding for the petroleum industry
BS 4504 Circular flanges for pipes, valves and fittings (PN designated). Steel, cast iron and copper alloy flanges.
BS 4825-1 Stainless steel tubes and fittings for the food industry and other hygienic applications. Specification for tubes
(British Standard)
Specifies dimensions, tolerances, surface finish and materials requirements of seamless and longitudinally
welded austenitic stainless steel tubes to BS 3605, from 12.7 mm to 406.4 mm o.d inclusive.
BS 4825-2 Stainless steel tubes and fittings for the food industry and other hygienic applications. Specification for
bends and tees (British Standard)
Specifies dimensions, tolerances, surface finish and materials requirements for bends and tees for use with
BS 4825-3 Stainless steel tubes and fittings for the food industry and other hygienic applications. Specification for
Specifies dimensions, tolerances, surface finish, hygienic, assembly and materials requirements for welded
and expanded type clamp liners and seals in tube couplings for use with stainless steel tubes specified in
BS 4285-1.
BS 4825-4 Stainless steel tubes and fittings for the food industry and other hygienic applications. Specification for
Dimensions, tolerances, surface finish, hygienic, assembly and materials requirements for welded and
expanded type male parts and liners, nuts and seals for threaded IDF type couplings for use with stainless
Specifies dimensions, tolerances, surface finish, hygienic, assembly and materials requirements for welded
and expanded type male parts and liners, nuts and seals for recessed ring joint type fittings for use with
DIN 2561 Oval Screwed Flanges with Socket; Nominal Pressure 10 and 16
DIN 2573 Plain face flanges for brazing or welding; Nominal pressure 6
DIN 2576 Flanges; Slip-on Type for Brazing or Welding. Nominal Pressure 10
DIN 2614 Cement mortar linings for ductile iron and steel pipes and fittings; application, requirements and testing
DIN 2605-1 Steel Butt-welding Pipe Fittings/Elbows and Bends with Reduced Pressure Factor
DIN 2615-1 Steel butt-welding pipes fittings; tees with reduced pressure factor
DIN 2615-2 Steel butt-welding pipe fittings; tees for use at full service pressure
DIN 2616-1 Steel butt-welding pipe fittings; eccentric reducers with reduced pressure factor
DIN 2616-2 Steel butt-welding pipe fittings; reducers for use at full service pressure
DIN 2641 Lapped Flanges. Welding Neck Flanges. Plain Collars. Nominal Pressure 6
DIN 2642 Slip-on Flanges; Upturned Welding Flanges. Plain Collars; Nominal Pressure 10
DIN 3202-4 Face-to-face and center-to-face dimensions of valves; Valves with female thread connection
DIN EN 10253-4 Butt-welding pipe fittings - Part 4: Wrought austenitic and austenitic-ferritic (duplex) stainless steels with
specific inspection requirements; German version EN 10253-4:2008 EN10253
DIN EN 10204 Metallic products - Types of inspection documents; German version EN 10204:2004 EN10204
DIN 11850 Stainless steel tubes for the food and chemical industries - Dimensions, materials
DIN 11852 Fittings for the food and chemical industries - Fittings of stainless steel - Tees, bends and reducers for
welding
DIN 11853-1 Stainless steel fittings for the food and chemical industry - Part 1: Hygienic screwed pipe connection, short
type
DIN 11853-2 Stainless steel fittings for the food and chemical industry - Part 2: Hygienic flanged pipe connection, short
type
DIN 11853-3 Stainless steel fittings for the food and chemical industry - Part 3: Hygienic clamp pipe connection, short
type
DIN 11864-1 Fittings of stainless steel for the aseptic, chemical and pharmaceutical industry - Part 1: Aseptic screwed
DIN 11864-2 Stainless steel fittings for the aseptic, chemical and pharmaceutical industries - Part 2: Aseptic flanged pipe
DIN 11864-3 Stainless steel fittings for the aseptic, chemical and pharmaceutical industries - Part 3: Aseptic clamp pipe
DIN 50049 Metallic products; types of inspection documents; products; german version of EN 10204:1991 DIN50049
EN (European Standard)
EN 1092-1 Flanges and their joints - Circular flanges for pipes, valves, fittings and accessories, PN designated - Part 1: Steel
flanges
EN 10204 Metallic products - Types of inspection documents
EN 10216-5 Seamless steel tubes for pressure purposes – technical delivery conditions Part 5: stainless steel tubes
EN 10253-4 Butt-welding pipe fittings - Part 4: Wrought austenitic and austenitic-ferritic (duplex) stainless steels with specific
inspection requirements
ISO7 Pipe threads where pressure-tight joints are made on the threads.
ISO 228-1 Pipe threads where pressure-tight joints are not made on the threads - Part 1: Dimensions. tolerances and
designation
ISO 228-2 Pipe threads where pressure-tight joints are not made on the threads; Part 2 : Verification by means of limit
gauges
ISO 1127 Stainless steel tubes; dimensions. tolerances and conventional masses per unit length
ISO 5251 Stainless steel butt-welding fittings. Specifies the dimensions, tolerances and generally used grades of stainless
steel for bends /type 3D (90 and 180 ) with and without straight ends and type 5D (90 )/, concentric and eccentric
reducers, tees, caps and stub ends with quality requirements as used for piping work.
ISO 15156 Petroleum and natural gas industries - Materials for use in H2S-containing environments in oil and gas production
MSS SP-43 Wrought and Fabricated Butt-Welding Fittings for Low Pressure, Corrosion Resistant Applications
MSS SP-83 Class 3000 Steel Pipe Unions Socket Welding and Threaded.
MSS SP-97 Integrally Reinforced Forged Branch Outlet Fittings - Socket Welding, Threaded and Buttwelding Ends
ANSI/NACE MR0175/ISO 15156, Petroleum and natural gas industries—Materials for use in H2S-containing environments in oil and
gas production