All gas turbine inspection and testing is done against the approved drawings, purchase order specifications, purchasers or company standards, and within the practices and rules of the country, state or province and any government decrees, laws, ordinance or regulation as may apply.
This content is useful primarily to open cycle combustion gas turbine units for mechanical drive operations and does not apply to the hot gas generator sets in industrial use of the aircraft pod type.
The applicable codes and specifications for a gas turbine that is under the construction process is:
- Design code
- Purchase order specification
- Purchaser’s standards
- Approved drawings
and the applicable codes and standards are:
- API 616
- Other Related API Recommendation Practices
The applicable codes and standards may be based on other international standards such as JIS B8041, etc. This content is general and can be useful even if the design code is different from the API Code.
