piping-codes
- India BIS : Bureau of Indian standards.
- S.A ASME : American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- United Kingdom BSI : British Standards Institute
- Germany DIN : Deutsches Institute for Normung.
- Japan JIS : Japanese Industrial Standards
- Europe CEN : Europe Community for Standardisation
- Canada CSA : Canadian Standards Association
- France AFNOR : Association Francoise
Commonly used American Standards in Piping
- The American Petroleum Institute (API).
- The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI).
- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
- The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM).
- The American Welding Society (AWS).
- The American Water Works Association (AWWA).
- The Manufactures Standardisation Society & Industry-Standards practices (MSS-SP)
- The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
ASME Piping codes
ASME B 31.1 Power piping
ASME B 31.3 Process Piping for Petroleum refineries, Chemical,
Pharmaceutical, Textile, Paper, Semiconductor & Cryogenic plant
ASME B 31. 4 Piping generally used for transporting & distributing liquid
Hydrocarbons & other liquids
ASME B 31.5 Refrigeration piping
ASME B 31.8 Piping generally used for transporting & distributing Gases.
ASME B 31.9 Building services
ASME B 31.11 Slurry transportation piping system
ASME Fitting standards
ASME B 16.5 Pipe Flanges and Flanged Fittings NPS ½ Trough NPS 24
ASME B 16.9 Factory-Made Wrought Steel Buttwelding Fittings
ASME B 16.10 Face-to-Face and End-to-End Dimensions of Valves
ASME B 16.11 Forged Fittings, Socket- Welding and Threaded
ANSI B 16.14 Ferrous Pipe Plugs, Bushing and Locknuts with Pipe Threads
ASME B 16.20 Metallic Gaskets for Pipe Flanges- Ring-Joint, Spiral-Wound, and
Jacketed
ASME B 16.21 Nonmetallic Flat Gaskets for Pipe Flanges
ASME B 16.25 Buttwelding Ends
ASME B 16.28 Wrought Steel Buttwelding Short Radius Elbows
ASME B 16.34 Valves – Flanged, Threaded, and Weldin g End
ASME B 16.36 Orifice Flanges
ASME B 16.47a Large Diameter Steel Flanges NPS 26 Through NPS 60
ANSI B 18.2.1 Square and Hex Bolts and Screws (Inch Series)
ANSI B 18.2.2 Square and Hex nuts (Inch Series)
ASME B 36.10M Welded and Seamless Wrought Steel Pipe
ASME B 36.19M Stainless Steel Pipe