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DATE FEBRUARY, 2010

NATIONAL IRANIAN OIL REFINING & DISTRIBUTION COMPANY

NATIONAL IRANIAN OIL ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

NIOEC SPECIFICATION FOR

PROCESS DESIGN OF COMPRESSORS

FIRST EDITION
FEBRUARY, 2010

THIS SPECIFICATION IS THE PROPERTY OF NATIONAL IRANIAN OIL ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION COMPANY. IT IS CONFIDENTIAL AND ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO THE OWNER. NEITHER WHOLE NOR ANY PART OF THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE DISCLOSED TO ANY THIRD PARTY, REPRODUCTED, STORED IN ANY RETRIEVAL SYSTEM OR TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE NATIONAL IRANIAN OIL ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION COMPANY.

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IN THE NAME OF GOD

FOREWORD By their very nature, technical standard specifications are continuously subject to modifications and
revisions. To strengthen their merit and usefulness, continuous improvements, addendum, deletion of disparate information and consequently provision of updated revisions are to be made in order to ascertain that such standard specifications meet the current requirements, inclusive of Iranian Petroleum Standards (IPS) and the recognized and acceptable national and international standards, as well as the optimal codes and practices based on the accumulated in-house know-how and plant knowledge and experiences. However, in reality, due to several reasons, not to mention the complexity of the matter, the ultimate goal of continuous direct embedment of the required changes on the relevant standard specifications may be far reaching. Therefore, in the interim periods between the officially issued revisions, the required changes will appear in other documents related to the engineering and design work of the ongoing projects. In response to the initiative of the Design Division of the Engineering and Construction Directorate, and considering that the task of the execution of several important and mega projects for the realization of the new oil refineries, pipelines and oil terminals as well as improvements of the existing facilities, has been assigned to NIOEC, it was decided to update the NIOEC Specifications and to issue new official revisions. The Design Division of the Engineering and Construction Directorate was itself entrusted to carry out this important task, and as such by forming several special technical committees, working in close co-operation and cohesion and sharing their expertise and knowledge, the updated and revised NIOEC Specifications were successfully prepared and complied. These Specifications are intended to be used for Oil Refineries, Distribution Depots, Oil Terminals, Pipelines and Pump Stations within NIOEC's projects, and have been proven to be of high value for such purposes. It must however be appreciated that these Specifications represent the minimum requirements and should in no way be interpreted as a restriction on the use of better procedures, engineering and design practices or materials. We encourage and highly appreciate the users and other clear sighted and experts to send their comments on the Specifications to the Design Deputy of the Engineering Department of NIOEC for evaluation and consideration.

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INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................2 SCOPE...........................................................................................................................................2 REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................2 UNITS .............................................................................................................................................3 DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY.........3 ADDENDUM TO IPS-E-PR-750.........4

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0. INTRODUCTION To satisfy the requirements of this NIOEC Specification, Iranian Petroleum Standard IPS-E-PR-750(0) with the modifications as specified herein after shall be strictly followed. Articles 1 and 4 of this document replace entirely the related articles in the referenced IPS Standard. 1. SCOPE NIOEC specifications cover the general requirements for detailed engineering, procurements, testing, inspection & construction of refinery/ oil plant, distribution depots, pump stations and pipelines. This Engineering Standard Specification covers the minimum requirements, basic reference data and necessary formulas for process calculations and proper selection of compressors to be used in the OGP industries. Compressors are dealt within four groups; axial, centrifugal, reciprocating and rotary, and each covered in separate section. Vacuum pumps, jet ejectors, fans, blowers and air compressors are discussed in IPS-E-PR-745, IPS-E-PR-755 and IPS-E-PR-330 respectively. 2. REFERENCES Throughout this Standard the following standards and codes are referred to. The editions of these standards and codes that are in effect at the time of publication of this Standard shall, to the extent specified herein, form a part of this Standard. The applicability of changes in standards and codes that occur after the date of this Standard shall be mutually agreed upon by the Company and the Vendor/Consultant/Contractor. API (AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE) API Std. 617, "Centrifugal Compressors for General Refinery Services" API Std. 618, "Reciprocating Compressors for General Refinery Services" API Std. 619, "Rotary Type Positive Displacement Compressors for General Refinery Services" API Publication "Conversion of Operational and Process Measurement Units to the Metric (SI) System" No. 2564, March 1974 ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) PTC 10 GPSA (GAS PROCESSORS SUPPLIERS ASSOCIATION) "Engineering Data Book", Vo1. 2, 1987 IPS (IRANIAN PETROLEUM STANDARDS) IPS-E-PR-330 "Process Design of Production & Distribution of Compressed Air Systems" IPS-E-PR-745 Engineering Standard for Process Design of Vacuum Equipment (Vacuum Pumps and Steam Jet Ejectors) 2

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IPS-E-PR-750 Engineering Standard for Process Design of Compressors IPS-E-PR-755 Engineering Standard for Process Design of Fans and Blowers IPS-M-PM-170 "Centrifugal Compressors for Process Services" IPS-M-PM-190 "Axial Flow Centrifugal Compressors" IPS-M-PM-200 "Reciprocating Compressors for Process Services" IPS-M-PM-220 "Positive Displacement Compressors, Rotary"

EQUIVALENT TO IPS STANDARDS Substitute the following IPS Standards as referred to throughout IPS-E-PR-750 for the relevant NIOEC's Specifications as follows: IPS Standard IPS-E-GN-100 IPS-E-PR-200 IPS-E-PR-750 Relevant NIOEC Spcification NIOEC-SP-00-10 NIOEC-SP-00-54 NIOEC-SP-00-89

3. UNITS International system of units (SI) shall be used in accordance with NIOEC-SP-00-10, unless otherwise specified. 4. DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY 4.1 Terms used in this Standard are defined as per Section 1.4 of API Standard 617 for centrifugal and axial compressors, Section 1.4 for API Standard 618 for reciprocating compressors and Section 1.4 of API Standard 619 for rotary compressors, unless otherwise stated in this Section. 4.2 Inlet Cubic Meters per Hour (Im/h) Refers to flow rate determined at the conditions of pressure, temperature, compressibility and gas composition, including moisture, at the compressor inlet flange (substitution to API Std. 617, 1.4.18). 4.3 Actual Cubic Meters per Hour (Am/h) Refers to the flow rate at flowing conditions of temperature and pressure at any given location. Because this term describes flow at a number of locations, it should not be used interchanegably with inlet m/h (substitution to API Std. 617, 1.4.19). 4.4 Standard Cubic Meter per Hour (Sm/h) Refers to the flow rate at any location corrected to a pressure of 101.325 kPa and at a temperature of 15C with a compressibility factor of 1.0 and in a dry condition. 4.5 Normal Cubic Meters per Hour (Nm/h)

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Refers to a flow rate at any location corrected to the normal atmospheric pressure and a temperature of 0C with a compressibility factor of 1.0 and in dry conditions. 4.6 Specific Volume Specific Volume is the volume per unit mass or volume per mole of material. 4.7 Compressor Surge Point The compressor surge point is the capacity below which the compressor operation becomes unstable. This occurs when flow is reduced and the compressor back pressure exceeds the pressure developed by the compressor and a breakdown in flow results. This immediately causes a reversal in the flow direction and reduces the compressor back pressure. The moment this happens regular compression is resumed and the cycle is repeated. 4.8 Chock Point The chock point is the point where the machine is run at a given speed and the flow increased until maximum capacity is attained. 5. ADDENDUM TO IPS-E-PR-750 This addendum revises the below listed articles of IIPS-E-PR-750 as follows:

6.2.11 Cooling water systems (Addition) For centrifugal compressors, cooling water systems shall be designed for the conditions specified in Table-1.
Table-1: Design criteria and specifications for cooling water systems of Centrifugal compressors

8.2.9.3.2 (Addition) However, unless otherwise specified and agreed by the Company, the maximum predicted discharge temperature shall not exceed 150C (300 F). This limit applies to all specified operating and load conditions. Predicted discharge temperature shall not exceed 135C (275 F) for hydrogen-rich services (those with molecular weight 12 or less).

8.2.12 Cooling water systems (Addition)

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For reciprocating compressors, cooling water systems shall be designed for the conditions on the coolant side as specified in Table-2:
Table-2 Design criteria and specifications for cooling water systems of Reciprocating Compressors

9.1.4

(Modification)

The last sentence shall be read as follows: The cooling water design conditions shall be in accordance with API Std. 619, latest revision.