API RP 573-20XX Draft. Inspection of Fired Boilers and Heaters

American Petroleum Institute (API). Draft. Third Edition. Third Ballot—Closes 03/02/2011. 103p. This recommended practice covers the inspection practices for fired boilers and process heaters (furnaces) used in petroleum refineries and petrochemical plants. The practices described in this document are focused to improve equipment reliability and plant safety by describing the operating variables which impact reliability, and to ensure that inspection practices obtain the appropriate data, both on-stream and off-stream, to assess current and future performance of the equipment.