Pumps governing standards

The pump-mounting feet are located close to the centerline. As a result, the pump thermal growth is uniform on both sides of the centerline, leading to minimal distortions. The design is governed by the American Petroleum Institute (API) standard 610, "Centrifugal Pumps for General Refinery Service" (30). 

The peristaltic pump is fitted with colour-coded PVC tubes of varying diameters. The flow rate is governed by the diameter and indicated by the colours of the collar at each end. Standard quality is usually of acceptable... 

As with chemical weapons ingredients, the chemical equipment needed to make chemical warfare agents is commercially available just about anywhere. Certainly, to set up a full-scale poison gas production line, terrorists would need reactors and agitators, chemical storage tanks, containers, receivers, condensers for temperature control, distillation columns to separate chemical compounds, valves and pumps to move chemicals between reactors and other containers. Additionally, ideally the equipment would be corrosion-resistant. For a full-scale mustard gas production plant the price tag would be between 2.5 and 5 million. Approximately 10 million would be required to set up a plant to manufacture tabun, sarin or soman.47 Terrorists, however, can be assumed to forego the scale and the safety precautions that most governments would consider essential for a weapons programme. In fact, standard process equipment or a laboratory set-up of beakers and... 

In Russia, the government-imposed standards (SAST) define petroleum as fit for delivery to oil refineries if it contains no more than 0.1% of water and no more than 40 mg liter of chlorine salts. Besides these two requirements there are also others. Therefore, before petroleum is pumped into the pipeline, it must be subjected to processing that includes the following operations ... 

The development of the ABWR was adopted as one of the main tasks of Japan s Third Light Water Improvement and Standardization Program. The verification test of the internal pump was assigned by the government to the Nuclear Power Engineering Corporation and was completed. Also, various researches in connection with the ABWR were undertaken jointly by BWR utilities. 

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