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API Committee on Refinery Equipment (CRE)

The mission of the API Committee on Refinery Equipment (CRE) is to promulgate safe and proven engineering practices for the design, fabrication, installation, inspection, and use of materials and equipment in refineries and related processing facilities. These practices are produced in accordance with the API Procedures for Standards Development and published as API Standards, Specifications and Recommended Practices. Below is a list of the subcommittees and the areas they work with.

Subcommittee on Corrosion & Materials

  • Fabrication Requirements
  • Corrosion Mechanisms
  • Equipment Reliability
  • Refractory Systems
  • Reducing Capital and Maintenance Costs

Subcommittee on Electrical Equipment

  • Electrical Classification
  • Electrical Installations
  • Squirrel-cage Installations
  • Lightning Protection
  • Synchronous Machines
  • General Purpose Squirrel Cage Induction Motors

Subcommittee on Heat Transfer Equipment

  • Calculation of Heater Tube Thickness in Petroleum Refineries
  • Heat Recovery Steam Generators
  • Burners for Fired Heaters
  • Post Combustion Nox Control for Equipment in General Refinery Services
  • Development on Flares
  • Fired Heaters for General Refinery Service
  • Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers for General Refinery Services
  • Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers for General Refinery Service
  • Plate Heat Exchangers

Subcommittee on Inspection

  • Fabrication Requirements
  • Corrosion Mechanisms
  • Equipment Reliability
  • Refractory Systems
  • Reducing Capital and Maintenance Costs

Subcommittee on Instruments & Control Systems

Subcommittee on Mechanical Equipment

  • Centrifugal Pumps
  • General-Purpose Steam Turbines
  • Lubrication, Shaft-Sealing, and Control-Oil Systems and Auxiliaries
  • Gas Turbines
  • Centrifugal Compressors
  • Reciprocating Compressors
  • Rotary-Type Positive-Displacement Compressors
  • Machinery Protection Systems
  • Packaged, Integrally Geared Centrifugal Air Compressors
  • Special Purpose Fans Positive Displacement Pumps-Rotary
  • General Purpose Gear Units
  • Shaft Sealing Systems for Centrifugal and Rotary Pumps
  • Tutorial on Rotor Dynamics and Balancing
  • Sealless Centrifugal Pumps for Petroleum, Heavy Duty Chemical, and Gas
  • Industry Services
  • Repair of Special Purpose Rotors
  • Pulsation and Vibration Control In Positive Displacement Machinery Systems

Subcommittee on Piping & Valves

  • Fire Testing

Subcommittee on Pressure-Relieving Systems

  • Sizing, Selection, and Installation of Pressure-Relieving Devices in Refineries
  • Pressure-Relieving and Depressuring Systems
  • Flanged Steel Pressure Relief Valves
  • Seat Tightness of Pressure Relief Valves
  • Venting Atmospheric and Low-Pressure Storage Tanks

Subcommittee on Aboveground Storage Tanks

  • Design and Construction of Large, Welded, Low-Pressure Storage Tanks
  • Welded Steel Tanks for Oil Storage
  • Tank Inspection, Repair, Alteration, and Reconstruction

Fitness-for-Service Task Group

Risk-Based Inspection Software User Group