July 7, 2015 Sichuan Valve Industry Association, held in Chengdu, "Sichuan Valve Association statistics and API certification training sessions," mainly to explain how to further improve the industry statistics, as well as API certification project training seminars, TS certification Latest content and so on.

First, API certification overview

API is the American Petroleum Institute (American Petroleum Institute) the English abbreviation. API was built in 1919, is the first national business associations in the United States, is the world's first and most successful standards of the Chamber of Commerce. One of the key tasks of the API is to be responsible for the standardization of equipment for oil and gas industry equipment to ensure the safety, reliability and interchangeability of the equipment used in the industry.

API certification includes API product certification and API Q1 quality system certification. In today's world trade market, due to the international procurement of oil equipment, which led to the quality assurance and product liability international issues. Purchasing (customer) From the point of view of quality assurance, oil equipment manufacturers are generally required to manufacture according to API specifications and provide products that use API certification markings. Now our customers and business has not yet asked and involved in API certification, follow-up business development will involve API certification.

Second, TS certification

 1, API for foreign certification bodies, in China engaged in special equipment production activities, must obtain TS manufacturing license.

 2, the earliest in January 7, 2000 onwards, the State Administration of Quality Supervision, the implementation of the "pressure pipeline components manufacturing unit safety registration"; referred to as: "AZ" registration (certification).

October 27, 2006 so far, updated as "the People's Republic of special equipment manufacturing license"; referred to as: "TS" certification.

The Law of the People's Republic of China on Special Equipment Safety shall come into force on January 1, 2014.

Article 74 Whoever, in violation of the provisions of this Law, engages in the production of special equipment without permission shall be ordered to stop the production and confiscate the special equipment manufactured illegally and shall be fined not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan; if there is any illegal income, Income; has been implemented to install, modify, repair, ordered to restore the status quo or ordered to be approved by the unit to re-install, modify, repair.

This Law establishes a new model of special equipment safety work of the Trinity, which is the responsibility of the enterprise to assume the responsibility of the security and the government to carry out the functions of the safety supervision and the social play a supervisory role, and further highlights the main responsibility for the production, operation and use of special equipment.

3, not all industrial valves must be evidence, the provisions of October 30, 2014, the pressure is greater than or equal to 0.1MPa, nominal diameter greater than or equal to 50mm, usually less than 50mm diameter valve is not in the scope of evidence, especially forged steel Valves, instrument valves and other valve.

4, based on: AQSIQ (No. 114 of 2014) "special equipment catalog" pressure pipe the latest provisions of the valve is a pressure pipe components, pressure pipe components are used in the pressure pipe. This specification is currently applicable: General purpose valves, cryogenic valves and control valves; Not applicable: Safety valves, emergency shut-off valves, etc.

5, the valve TS certification type test Note the problem

Familiar with product standards

Clear the specific test method of each valve

Skilled operation of various test equipment

Site test, the various departments to coordinate the work

Product appearance, cast word

Product wall thickness

The chemical composition of the material

Product sealing performance

Drawings, calculations are in line with standard requirements

Gate valve stem to pull off the calculation book

6, AQSIQ quality checks

For the certified enterprises, the second half of each year AQSIQ will conduct supervision of quality checks. Check the contents of the general is: surface quality, stem diameter, body wall thickness, the seal test, low pressure gas seal, high pressure water seal, shell seal, material composition.

Check the number of: a specifications of the valve 2, the annual sample of about 20 around the valve business.

How to face

Usually half a day in advance to inform the enterprise, the enterprise must take advantage of half a day, the product re-examination, confirmed correct, the closure of the sample.

Unqualified enterprises, the Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau will be punished and require enterprises to rectification. In the next year, check again.

This time to participate in the Sichuan Valve Industry Association one-day meeting, let me on the API certification on the impact of the valve industry and the importance of TS certification.