ASME – Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, 2007 Edition

ASME BPVC Pressure Vessel Collection
Includes Sections II, IID, VIII, ASME Referenced Standards and Interpretations

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ASME BPVC Non Nuclear Collection
Includes Sections I, II, IID, V, VIII, IX, X,CC-BPV, ASME Referenced Standards and Interpretations

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ASME BPVC Nuclear Collection
Includes Sections III, IV, V, IX, XI,CC-NUC, ASME Referenced Standards and Interpretations

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Section I – Power Boilers
This Section provides requirements for all methods of construction of power, electric, and miniature boilers; high temperature water boilers used in stationary service; and power boilers used in locomotive, portable, and traction service. Rules pertaining to use of the V, A, M, PP, S and E Code symbol stamps are also included.

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Section II – Material Specifications
Parts A&B are service books to the other Code Sections.

Part A provides material specifications for ferrous materials adequate for safety in the field of pressure equipment. These specifications contain requirements and mechanical properties, test specimens, and methods of testing. They are designated by SA numbers and are derived from ASTM "A" specifications.

Part B provides material specifications for nonferrous materials adequate for safety in the field of pressure equipment. These specifications contain requirements for heat treatment, manufacture, chemical composition, heat and product analyses, mechanical test requirements and mechanical properties, test specimens, and methods of testing. They are designated by SB numbers and are derived from ASTM "B" specifications.

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Section IID – Material Specifications Part D
This is a service book to Code Sections providing tables of design stress values, tensile and yield strength values, and tables and charts of material properties. Part D facilitates ready identification of specific materials to specific Sections of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code. Part D contains appendices which contain criteria for establishing allowable stress, the bases for establishing external pressure charts, and information required for approval of new materials.

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Section IIDM – Material Specifications Part D Metric
This is a service book to Code Sections providing tables of design stress values, tensile and yield strength values, and tables and charts of material properties. Part D facilitates ready identification of specific materials to specific Sections of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code. Part D contains appendices which contain criteria for establishing allowable stress, the bases for establishing external pressure charts, and information required for approval of new materials.

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Section III – Rules for Construction of Nuclear Power Plant Components
This Section provides requirements for the materials, design, fabrication, examination, testing, inspection, installation, certification, stamping, and overpressure protection of nuclear power plant components, and component and piping supports. Components include metal vessels and systems, pumps, valves, and core support structures. The components and supports covered by this Section are intended to be installed in a nuclear power system which serves the purpose of producing and controlling the output of thermal energy from nuclear fuel and those associated systems essential to the functions and overall safety of the nuclear power system. This Section provides requirements for new construction and includes consideration of mechanical and thermal stresses due to cyclic operation. Deterioration which may occur in service as a result of radiation effects, corrosion, erosion, or instability of the material is not covered. This Subsection contains the glossary and rules pertaining to Duties and Responsibilities, design documentation, quality assurance, Authorized Nuclear Inspection and the use of N, NPT, NA and NV Code symbol stamps.

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Section IV – Heating Boilers
This Section provides requirements for design, fabrication, installation and inspection of steam generating boilers, and hot water boilers intended for low pressure service that are directly fired by oil, gas, electricity, or coal. It contains appendices which cover approval of new material, methods of checking safety valve and safety relief valve capacity, examples of methods of checking safety valve and safety relief valve capacity, examples of methods of calculation and computation, definitions relating to boiler design and welding, and quality control systems. Rules pertaining to use of the H, HV, and HLW Code symbol stamps are also included.

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Section V – Nondestructive Examination
This contains requirements and methods for nondestructive examination which are referenced and required by other Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Sections. It also includes manufacturer's examination responsibilities, duties of authorized inspectors and requirements for qualification of personnel, inspection and examination. Examination methods are intended to detect surface and internal discontinuities in materials, welds, and fabricated parts and components.

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Section VI – Recommended Rules for Care & Operation of Heating Boilers
This covers general descriptions, terminology and operation guidelines applicable to steel and cast iron boilers within the operating range for Section IV Heating Boilers. It includes guidelines for associated controls and automatic fuel burning equipment. Illustrations show typical examples of available equipment. Also included is a glossary of terms commonly associated with boilers, controls, and fuel burning equipment.

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Section VII – Recommended Guidelines for Care of Power Boilers
The purpose of these guidelines is to promote safety in the use of stationary, portable, and traction type boilers. This Section provides such guidelines to assist operators of power boilers in maintaining plant safety. Emphasis has been placed on industrial type boilers because of their extensive use.

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Section VIII – Pressure Vessels
Section VIII consists of three Divisions.

Division 1 provides requirements applicable to the design, fabrication, inspection, testing, and certification of pressure vessels operating at either internal or external pressures exceeding 15 psig. Such pressure vessels may be fired or unfired. Specific requirements apply to several classes of material used in pressure vessel construction, and also to fabrication methods such as welding, forging and brazing. It contains mandatory and non-mandatory appendices detailing supplementary design criteria, nondestructive examination and inspection acceptance standards. Rules pertaining to the use of the U, UM and UV Code symbol stamps are also included.

Division 2 provides requirements applicable to the design, fabrication, inspection, testing, and certification of pressure vessels operating at either internal or external pressures exceeding 15 psig. Such vessels may be fired or unfired. This pressure may be obtained from an external source or by the application of heat from a direct or indirect source, or any combination thereof. These rules provide an alternative to the minimum requirements for pressure vessels under Division 1 rules. In comparison to Division 1, Division 2 requirements on materials, design, and nondestructive examination are more rigorous; however, higher design stress intensify values are permitted. Division 2 rules cover only vessels to be installed in a fixed location for a specific service where operation and maintenance control is retained during the useful life of the vessel by the user who prepares or causes to be prepared the design specifications. These rules may also apply to human occupancy pressure vessels typically in the diving industry. Rules pertaining to the use of the U2 and UV Code symbol stamps are also included.

Division 3 provides requirements applicable to the design, fabrication, inspection, testing, and certification of pressure vessels operating at either internal or external pressures generally above 10,000 psi. Such vessels may be fired or unfired. This pressure may be obtained from an external source, a process reaction, by the application of heat from a direct or indirect source, or any combination thereof. Division 3 rules cover vessels intended for a specific service and installed in a fixed location or relocated from work site to work site between pressurizations. The operation and maintenance control is retained during the useful life of the vessel by the user who prepares or causes to be prepared the design specifications. Division 3 does not establish maximum pressure limits for either Section VIII, Divisions 1 or 2, nor minimum pressure limits for this Division. Rules pertaining to the use of the UV3 Code symbol stamps are also included.

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Section IX – Welding & Brazing Qualifications
This Section contains rules relating to the qualification of welding and brazing procedures as required by other Code Sections for component manufacture. It also covers rules relating to the qualification and requalification of welders, brazers, and welding and brazing operators in order that they may perform welding or brazing as required by other Code Sections in the manufacture of components. Welding and brazing data cover essential and nonessential variables specific to the welding or brazing process used.

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Section X – Fiberglass, Reinforced Plastic Pressure Vessels
This Section provides requirements for construction of an FRP pressure vessel in conformance with a manufacturer's design report. It includes production, processing, fabrication, inspection and testing methods required for the vessel. Section X includes two Classes of vessel design; Class 1 a qualification through the destructive test of a prototype and Class II, mandatory design rules and acceptance testing by nondestructive methods. These vessels are not permitted to store, handle or process lethal fluids. Vessels fabrication is limited to the following processes: bag-molding, centrifugal casting and filament-winding and contact molding. General specifications for the glass and resin materials and minimum physical properties for the composite materials are given

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Section XI – Rules for In-service Inspection of Nuclear Facility Components
This Section contains Division 1 and 3, in one volume, and provides rules for the examination, in-service testing and inspection, and repair and replacement of components and systems in light water cooled and liquid metal cooled nuclear power plants. The Division 2 rules for inspection and testing of components of gas cooled nuclear power plants have been deleted in the 1995 Edition. With the decommissioning of the only gas cooled reactor to which these rules apply, there is no apparent need to continue publication of Division 2. Application of this Section of the Code begins when the requirements of the Construction Code have been satisfied. The rules of this Section constitute requirements to maintain the nuclear power plant while in operation and to return the plant to service, following plant outages, and repair or replacement activities. The rules require a mandatory program of scheduled examinations, testing, and inspections to evidence adequate safety.

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Section XII – Rules for Construction and Continued Service of Transport Trucks
This Section covers requirements for construction and continued service of pressure vessels for the transportation of dangerous goods via highway, rail, air or water at pressures from full vacuum to 3,000 psig and volumes greater than 120 gallons. "Construction" is an all-inclusive term comprising materials, design, fabrication, examination, inspection, testing, certification, and over-pressure protection. "Continued service" is an all-inclusive term referring to inspection, testing, repair, alteration, and recertification of a transport tank that has been in service. This Section contains modal appendices containing requirements for vessels used in specific transport modes and service applications. Rules pertaining to the use of the T Code symbol stamp are included.

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Code Cases – Boilers and Pressure Vessels
Code Cases contains provisions which have been adopted by the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Committee that cover all Sections of the code other than Section III, Divisions 1, 2 and 3 and Section XI to provide, when the need is urgent, rules for materials or constructions not covered by existing Code rules.

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Code Cases – Nuclear Components
This volume contains provisions which have been adopted by the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Committee that cover Section III, Divisions 1, 2 and 3, and Section XI to provide, when the need is urgent, rules for materials or constructions not covered by existing Code rules.

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ASME BPVC Referenced Standards
This collection contains approximately 200 ASME standards and performance test codes that are referenced within the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code. Click here for a listing of ASME BPVC Referenced Standards.

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ASME BPVC Collection with ASME Referenced Standards
Includes Section I-XII, Interpretations and Code Cases

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ASME BPVC Collection without ASME Referenced Standards
Includes Sections I-XII, Interpretations and Code Cases

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