Category
Rotating Equipment
Subcategory
Compressor
Applicable standards
3
Issuing bodies
3
Description
Packaged oil-free or oil-flooded air compressor for instrument & plant air.
Applicable Standards (3)
API — 1 standard
API 619
Rotary-Type Positive-Displacement Compressors for Petroleum, Petrochemical and Natural Gas Industries
Dry and oil-flooded rotary-type positive-displacement compressors (mainly screw type).
Key requirements (6)
- Rotary positive-displacement compressors: dry-screw, oil-flooded screw, lobe.
- Hydrotest: 1.5 × MAWP for casing and pressure parts.
- Mechanical run test: 4-hr continuous at rated speed.
- Performance test per ISO 1217 or ASME PTC 9.
- Vibration per API 670.
- Inlet pulsation analysis required when in pulsing service.
ASME — 1 standard
ASME PTC 9
Performance Test Code on Displacement Compressors
Performance testing of reciprocating and rotary positive-displacement compressors.
BIS — 1 standard
IS 10431
Reciprocating Air Compressors and Air Receivers — Code of Practice
Indian recip compressor selection/installation guidance.