Overview of API 620 - Design and Construction of Large, Welded, Low-Pressure Storage Tanks

API 620, Design and Construction of Large, Welded, Low-Pressure Storage Tanks, is a standard developed and published by the American Petroleum Institute that gives requirements for the design and construction of large, welded storage tanks with pressures in their gas or vapor spaces of not more than 15 lbf/in.2 gauge. The most recent edition of this standard (12th Ed.) was released October 2013.

 

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