API RP 1640 Second Edition 2021 PDF

API RP 1640 Second Edition 2021 PDF

This recommended practice (RP) has been prepared by the API Fuels Marketing Subcommittee with technical participation and feedback from other industry stakeholders.

It assists those involved in fuel handling at distribution and intermediate storage facilities. This publication provides guidance on the minimum equipment standards and operating procedures for the receipt, storage blending and delivery of light products, their blend components, and additives at distribution and intermediate storage terminals, including related operations of pipeline, marine vessel (barge or ship) and road/rail transport.

This RP also covers the minimum equipment standards and operating procedures for the receipt, storage, blending of light products, including, but not limited to gasoline, kerosene, diesel, heating oil and their blend components (i.e. ethanol, biodiesel, and butane) at distribution and storage terminals, as well as light product shipments directly via a pipeline, marine vessel (barge or ship) or road and rail transport.

In addition, this RP provides guidance for the design, construction, operation and maintenance of light products storage and distribution terminals with the specific intent of protecting or ensuring product quality.

This document incorporates by reference several other standards and recommended practices. The distinction between mandatory, recommended, and optional provisions in the referenced documents is not changed by nature of their reference in this standard.

The design and construction provisions of this standard are intended for application at new facilities. Application of the design and construction provisions of this standard to facilities, equipment, structures, or installations that are already in place, that are in the process of construction or that are installed before the date of this publication should be evaluated when circumstances merit. Such an evaluation should consider the site-specific circumstances and detailed accounting for both the potential and tolerance for risk, existing conditions at the installation, and overall benefit for applying the required design and construction provisions.