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SPECIFICATION FOR FLANGES

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Table of Content
1.TERMS AND DEFINITIONS........................................................................................ 4
2.SCOPE…………………………. ..................................................................................... 4
3.REFERENCED STANDARDS ...................................................................................... 4
4.ORDER OF PRECEDENCE ......................................................................................... 6
5.UNITS……………………………. .................................................................................. 7
6.MATERIALS………………………................................................................................ 7
7.SUBSTITUTION OF EQUIVALENT MATERIALS ..................................................... 9
8.DIMENSIONS……………………. ............................................................................... 10
9.ENDS……………………………. .................................................................................. 11
10.MANUFACTURE………………… ............................................................................ 11
11.INSPECTION AND TESTING .................................................................................. 13
12.DOCUMENTATION………………………................................................................. 14
13.PREPARATION FOR SHIPMENT ........................................................................... 15

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1. TERMS AND DEFINITIONS

• Owner/Client: Abadan Petrochemical Company

• EPC Contractor: Butane Procurement & Engeneering Services Company, Shall Mean
the Contractor Responsible For Engineering, Procurement & Construction of the Project.

• Vendor: The manufacturer /manufacturer's representative selected by the contractor &

approved by the client to supply equipment tools.

• Will: Is normally used in connection with the action by the "company" rather than by a
contractor, supplier or vendor.

• May: Is used where a provision is completely discretionary.

• Should: Is used where a provision is advisory only.

• Shall: Is used where a provision is mandatory.

2. SCOPE
This specification completes the description given in the requisitions issued by the
Engineering Company and stipulates the particular requirements for the fabrication,
inspection and shipment of flanges or hub connectors made of carbon steel, alloy steel,
stainless steel and copper alloys.

This specification does not apply to flanges made of glass-reinforced plastic materials
(GRP).

3. REFERENCED STANDARDS
3.1 Throughout this specification the following standards and codes are referred to the
latest edition of following standard shall be used with consideration to above notes.

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The reference documents listed below form an integral part of this General Specification.
Unless otherwise stipulated, the applicable version of these documents, including
relevant appendices and supplements, is the latest revision published at the EFFECTIVE
DATE of the CONTRACT.

-IPS-M-PI-150 Material standard for flanges & fittings

-ASME B 1.20.1 Pipe Threads (Except Dry seal)

-ASME B 16.5 Steel Pipe Flanges and Flanged Fittings

-ASME B 16.11 Forged Steel Fittings, Socket-Welding and Threaded

- ASME B 16.36 Steel Orifice Flanges

-ASME B 16.47 Large diameter steel flanges (NPS 26 through NPS 60)

-ASME B 36.10M Welded and seamless Wrought Steel Pipe

- ASME B 36.19M Stainless Steel Pipe

-ASME B 46.1 Surface Texture

-API 5L Line Pipe

-API 6A Specification for Wellhead and Christmas Tree Equipment

-MSS SP 6 Standard Finishes for Contact Faces of Pipes Flanges and Connecting
ends Flanges of Valves and Fittings

-MSS SP 9 Spot Facing for Bronze, Iron and Steel Flanges

-MSS SP 25 Standard Marking System for Valves, Fittings, Flanges and Unions

-ASTM A 105 Forgings, Carbon Steel, for Piping Components

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-ASTM A 182 Forged or Rolled Alloy Steel Pipe Flanges, Forged Fittings, and
Valves and Parts for High-Temperature Service

-ASTM A 350 Forgings, Carbon and Low-alloy Steel, requiring notch toughness
testing for Piping Components

-ASTM A 370 Mechanical Testing of Steel Products

-ASTM A 530 General Requirements for Specialized Carbon and Alloy Steel Pipe

-ASTM B 369 Copper-nickel alloy castings

-EN 10204 Metallic products - Type of inspection documents

- NACE MR0175/ISO15156 Petroleum and natural gas industries material for use in
H2S containing environments in oil and gas production”

- NACE TM0284 Evaluation of Pipeline and pressure vessel steels for Resistance to
Hydrogen – Induced Cracking”

- NACE TM0177 Laboratory testing of materials for resistance to Sulfide Stress

Cracking and Stress Corrosion Cracking in H2S Environments”

4. ORDER OF PRECEDENCE
Any conflict between any requirements specified in this document and the requirements
of any other relevant referenced document shall be resolved in the following order of
precedence:

- The Purchase Order Specification, Enquiry or Material Requisition.

- This Document;

- Other reference Project Specifications referred to in this Document.

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- Referenced Codes and Standards.

5. UNITS
5.1 This specification is based on international standard SI units except where otherwise
is specified.

6. MATERIALS
6.1 Carbon steel flanges

The carbon steel used for the fabrication of the flanges shall be produced in an electric
furnace, or by the basic oxygen process.

All carbon steels, including normalised steels, used for the fabrication of flanges shall
have a maximum carbon content of 0.23%.

The carbon equivalent of these materials, calculated using the formula:

Mn Cr + Mo + V Cu + Ni
C.E. = C+ + + shall be less than 0.40 %.
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If the content of alloying elements other than C or Mn is unknown, the formula to be

used shall be:

Mn
C.E. = C+ and, in this case, the carbon equivalent shall be less than 0.40 (ladle
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analysis).

All carbon steels materials of thicknesses greater than 12.7 mm (½ inch) must be impact
tested at minus 29°C (-20°F) in accordance with ASME B 31.3 (paragraph 323.3) unless
more stringent requirements (including lower impact test temperatures) are already
required in the product specification.

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All carbon steels for low temperature service at -30°C and below, shall undergo
toughness testing in accordance with the requirements of the reference codes and
standards.

All ASTM A350 LF2 flanges will be of class 1 material as defined in this standard.

All flanges shall be hot forged and shall undergo an appropriate heat treatment after
forging with the following order to preference:

• Quenching and tempering

• Normilisation and tempering

• Normalisation.

Each purchase order of carbon steel flanges for service at -30°C and below will be subject
to impact tests counter-checks and metallurgical examination by the COMPANY under
the following rules:

• The selection of flanges to be tested will be made by the COMPANY representative or

the Inspection Agency

• The welding neck of the selected flanges will be at least 10 mm

• The impact tests specimens will be cut-off from the welding-neck of finished flanges
with the notch axis perpendicular to the main flange axis; the values to be obtained are
those of ASTM A350. Impact testing from prolongations as offered by this standard is
not permitted

• Metallurgical examination will be performed on the cross-section of the material for

grain size evaluation and also hardness survey when required; grain size evaluations
made from replica on the finished surface are not accepted

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• A minimum of one flange shall be tested for every 500 flanges delivered from the same
source of supply, i.e. same manufacturing premises pertaining to the forge-master
Supplier to the Vendor or to the Vendor itself, or for one every ten heats from the same
manufacturing premises. An intermediary, as defined in paragraph 4 of EN 10204, is not
considered as a Manufacturer.

In case of failure, the complete supply will be suspended until further investigation is
performed.

This can lead to the replacement of the supply, complete or partial.

6.2 Austenitic stainless steel flanges

Type 321 stainless steel shall have a carbon content greater than or equal to 0.02%.
Austenitic stainless steel flanges shall undergo an annealing heat treatment in accordance
with the corresponding ASTM standards.

6.3 Galvanised flanges

Where galvanised flanges are specified, electro-deposited coating of zinc is not

acceptable.

6.4 Copper alloy flanges

Copper alloy flanges shall undergo heat treatment in accordance with the ASTM
standards.

7. SUBSTITUTION OF EQUIVALENT MATERIALS

Any substitution of materials shall require the prior approval of the COMPANY.

The replacement of flanges of a specified schedule by a higher schedule must be

submitted to the Engineering Company for approval. In this case, internal tapering will

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be necessary to match the specified schedule. The slope of this tapering shall comply
with the reference standards.

8. DIMENSIONS
8.1 Thicknesses

The end thicknesses of welding-neck flanges and the bore dimensions of socket-welding
flanges for which schedules 10, 40, 80, etc., are specified in the requisitions must be in
accordance with API 5 L or ASME B 36.10M.

The end thicknesses of welding-neck flanges for which schedules 5S, 10S, 40S or 80S
are specified must be in accordance with ASME B 36.19M.

8.2 Other Dimensions

The other dimensions of slip-on flanges, lap-joint flanges, socket-welding flanges,

threaded flanges and welding-neck flanges shall comply with ASME B 16.5 for
diameters up to 24 inches.

The dimensions of welding-neck flanges and blind flanges 26 inches or more in diameter
shall be in accordance with ASME B 16.47 Serie A.

For flanges in diameters and series greater than the limits set by ASME B 16.5 and ASME
B 16.47 Serie A, the Manufacturer shall submit a dimensioned document and calculation
notes to the Engineering Company for approval.

8.3 Wellhead Facilities Flanges

The dimensions of Wellhead Facilities Flanges shall be in accordance with API 6A.

8.4 Hub Conectors

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Hub connector dimension shall be as per Manufacturer standard. The design shall be
supported by design calculations using Finite Element Analysis (FEA). The design shall
be in compliance with ASME B16.5 or API 6A whichever is applicable.

9. ENDS
Welding-neck flanges up to 24" in diameter shall have ends bevelled as per ASME B16.5.

The ends of flanges 26" or more in diameter shall comply with ASME B 16.47 Serie A.

The ends of socket-welding flanges shall comply with ASME B 16.5. Threads of
galvanised flanges shall be free of galvanising.

10. MANUFACTURE
After forging, by stamping or circular rolling, all flanges shall undergo the following
main machining operations:

10.1 Finishing of gasket contact faces

The gasket contact faces of the flanges may be of three main types:

- Flat face

- Raised face

- Grooved for ring joint.

These contact faces shall undergo finishing machining in accordance with MSS SP 6, as
indicated by the table hereafter:

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Average roughness
Flange facing Finish
(maximum value)
Concentric serrated or
Flat Face 150 microns
spiral serrated or
Raised Face 1/16" (50 microns for the “Stock
“Stock Finish”
(with flat gasket) Finish” type) (1)
Raised Face 1/16"
(with spiral wound gasket)
Smooth Finish 250 AARH (6.3
or Raised face 1/4"
microns)

RTJ (2) Groove: very smooth 63 AARH (1.6 microns)

Note 1: The "stock finish" facing is not defined in MSS SP 6. For Flat Face or Raised
Face (stock finish) facing, the roughness average range is 6.3 to 12.5 microns (AARH =
250 to 500 micro inches). Pitch and depth of machining groove shall be per MSS SP 6,
Table 1.

However, roughness in excess of 12.5 microns (AARH greater than 500 micro inches) is
acceptable to a maximum of 50 microns, provided groove parameters per MSS SP 6 table
1 are maintained.

Note 2: The minimum BRINELL hardness of grooves of RTJ flanges shall be:

- 110 for carbon steel flanges

- 160 for alloy steel flanges

- 150 for stainless steel flanges.

10.2 Bore

The bores of flanges, as a function of their diameters, shall comply with ASME B 16.5
or ASME B 16.47 Serie A.

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10.3 Internal threading

The internal threading of threaded flanges shall comply with ASME B 1.20.1 (NPT).

10.4 Drilling

Bolt holes shall be made by multi-spindle drills. This drilling shall comply with ASME
B 16.5 or ASME B 16.47 Serie A, depending on the flange diameter (24" and less or 26"
and above). The spot facing of the flanges at the bolt holes shall be in accordance with
MSS SP 9.

10.5 Repairs of defects

Repairs of defects shall only be permitted if performed fully in accordance with the
reference codes and standards.

11. INSPECTION AND TESTING

11.1 Quality control

The inspection and tests necessary to confirm that the products meet the requirements of
thestandards, specifications and requisitions shall be carried out in the Manufacturer's
plant by personnel of the plant. This personnel, specially-qualified, shall be independent
of the production department of the plant.

Products shall be guaranteed by an inspection certificate (conformity, material, etc.).

If the Manufacturer does not have the necessary means of examination, these tests may
be carried out by an Inspection Agency and in a place approved by the Engineering
Company.

The Inspection Agency shall conduct inspections in the Manufacturer's plant in order to
make sure of the proper execution of the order and of the quality controls. It shall also
witness final shop acceptance.
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11.2 Acceptance

The Inspection Agency shall not grant any acceptance unless the certificates concerning
the products submitted have been made available to it in advance.

In addition to reviewing the certificates, the Inspection Agency shall check the quantities

presented and shall have checked, by sampling, the following characteristics:

• Shapes and nominal dimensions

• Dimensional tolerances

• Surface treatment and finish conditions

• Marking and finishing conditions.

This sampling shall cover at least 5% of each of the items submitted for acceptance.

The non-conformity of any or all of the products submitted for acceptance may give rise:

• Either to a second submission after the products have been brought up to specifications,
if this is possible or to final rejection.

Note: In sour service material HIC/SSC tests on flanges shall be carried out with the
frequency which mentioned in MTO (if not specified in MTO, frequency is 1 sample/
first 3 heats and 1sample per each other 10 heats) with the same manufacture; in case of
any change in manufacturer the tests shall be done with the frequency of each material.
SSC tests shall be carried out by FPB (80% AYS) methods. Samples and number of tests
are selected by client. Whenever the test results for each heat number were not accepted,
all heat number shall be tested and pass the tests.

12. DOCUMENTATION
12.1 Certificates of conformity
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The Manufacturer shall submit certificates of conformity with the standards specified in
the requisitions for flanges.

12.2 Material certificates

The Manufacturer shall submit EN 10204 3.1.B material certificates giving the results of
the chemical analysis and of the mechanical tests carried out in accordance with the
requirements of the reference codes and standards. This documentation shall also include
the test report relating to the random check required for carbon steel flanges for service
at -30°C and below.

13. PREPARATION FOR SHIPMENT

13.1 Marking

13.1.1 Identification of material and main characteristics

In addition to the markings required by MSS SP 25, the following information shall be
marked by cold stamping on each flange:

• The specification and grade of material

• The heat number

• The batch number

• The rating

• The diameter

• The ring joint number, in the case of RTJ flanges.

13.1.2 Markings specific to the order

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All flanges shall be identified by marking with colour marks and code numbers as and if
specified in the purchase order.

13.2 Protection

13.2.1 Carbon steel flanges

The threading of threaded flanges shall be oiled or protected by a non-peel varnish.

The bevelled ends and contact faces of the flanges shall be protected by a peel-off
varnish.

13.2.2 Austenitic stainless steel flanges

All stainless steel flanges shall be protected against the risk of saline corrosion during
cleaning, transport, fabrication and storage.

13.3 Packing

The flanges must be packed in sea packing, which must, in addition, be water-proof in
the case of austenitic stainless steels. Packing must be suitable for all stages of transport
(rail, road, air, etc.).

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