Document precedence
Apply the Purchase Order, Material Requisition, approved datasheets, project specifications, client/company standards, applicable legislation and approved deviations before vendor documents. Contractual conflicts require formal clarification rather than an assumed technical resolution.
Dosing pumps
Confirm the project-selected editions of API 675 or other specified metering-pump standard, applicable ASME/API piping and relief-device requirements, IEC electrical and hazardous-area requirements, and vendor performance limits. Vendor NPSHR/NPIPA, turndown, pulsation, accuracy and repeatability data govern final selection.
Chemical tank
Tank material, pressure/vacuum rating, venting, overflow, bunding, level instruments, agitator loads, corrosion allowance and chemical compatibility must follow the approved project specification and the applicable tank/material standard. Select UL 142, API 650, ASME VIII-1, ASTM/ASME RTP-1, EN 13121 or another standard only when required by the project service and document hierarchy.
Process and package interfaces
Final design requires approved minimum, normal and maximum process cases; chemical concentration, density, viscosity and vapor pressure; injection-point pressure; line losses; static head; autonomy; batch philosophy; utilities; relief return destination; drains, vents, flushing and hazardous-area classification.
Calculator limitations
The calculators provide preliminary hydraulic, inventory and sizing checks. They do not perform process simulation, pulsation analysis, detailed acceleration-head analysis, injection-quill stress analysis, PSV certification, tank structural design, nozzle-load analysis, SIL verification, hazardous-area certification or vendor guarantee validation.
Final decision authority
Final sizing and compliance remain with the responsible package engineer, process engineer, mechanical/rotating engineer, instrumentation and safety disciplines, project/client authorities and the selected vendor as applicable.
Equation and unit references: SI conversion practice follows NIST guidance; pump-assessment context follows the U.S. Department of Energy MEASUR resources; ideal-gas compressor relations follow standard isentropic relations described by NASA Glenn Research Center.