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    API Standard 672 - Packaged, Integrally Geared Centrifugal Air Compressors for Petroleum, Chemical, and Gas

    Industry Services Last update: July 21, 2010


    Standard Edition Section Inquiry # Question Reply
    672 4th - Mar. 6.2.3 672-I-01/06 Background: API 672, Clause 6.2.3 states “For casing joint bolting, an Your first interpretation (1) is correct.
    2004 allowable stress of 0.25 times the minimum ultimate tensile strength
    shall be used to determine the total bolting area based on hydrostatic
    load and gasket preload as applicable. The preload stress shall not
    exceed 0.75 times the bolting material minimum yield.”

    API 617 7th edition. Chapter 1, Clause 2.3.1.1.3 has a similar statement:
    “For casing joint bolting, an allowable stress (as determined in
    2.3.1.1.1) shall be used to determine the total bolting area based on
    hydrostatic load and gasket preload as applicable. The preload stress
    shall not exceed 0.75 times the bolting material minimum yield.”

    Question: Does this mean (1) the bolts should be designed so the
    average stress in the all the bolts due to hydrostatic load and minimum
    gasket preload is no more than 25% of their minimum ultimate tensile
    strength, but that they then may be preloaded at more than twice this
    stress level (since for common bolting materials the difference between
    yield and ultimate is not very large), or does it mean (2) the casing
    material in the vicinity of the bolts may not be stressed
    at more than 25% of it's minimum ultimate tensile strength
    based on hydrostatic load and gasket preload?

    672 4th - Mar. 7.4.1.2 672-I-01/07 How stringent is the IP65 requirement for a NEMA 4 enclosure and An IP65 or NEMA 4X enclosure shall be provided in order to comply
    2004 would an IP56 enclosure still meet the requirements for API 672, with 7.4.1.2. The purchaser has the option to specify (or agree to
    Section 7.4.1.2? accept) another enclosure.
    4th - Mar.
    2004
    The reference should be to ISO 1328-1 Grade 4.

    The correction to 6.12.2 should now be ―Gearing shall be designed and


    manufactured to the tolerances specified in ISO 1328-1, Grade 4‖.

    Likewise, 6.5.3.1 should now be ―As a minimum, gearing shall be


    designed and manufactured to the tolerances specified in ISO 1328-1,
    ISO 1328-2 specifies composite tolerances, requiring the gears to be
    Grade 5‖.
    checked by rolling in tight mesh contact with a master gear in a
    composite tester, looking at variation in center distance. This testing The reference in ANNEX B should be changed from "ISO 11328-2
    method is rarely if ever used for the high quality gears used in integrally Cylindrical Gears—ISO System of Accuracy—Part 2: Definitions and
    geared compressors, and is limited to gears less that 1 meter in Allowable Values of Deviations Relevant to Radial Composite
    diameter. API 672 should require the same tolerances required by API Deviations and Runout Information" to "ISO 1328-1 Cylindrical Gears –
    613 fifth edition clause 2.5.2.1, which specifies ISO 1328-1 grade 4. ISO system of accuracy – Part 1: Definitions and Allowable Values of
    Deviations Relevant to Corresponding Flanks of Gear Teeth."
    Is the API 672 clause 6.12.2 reference to ISO 1328-2 an editorial or
    672 6.12.2 672-2010-1 typographical error, and should the reference be to ISO 1328-1 grade 4? An errata has been issued.
    Last update: July 21, 2010

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