255.169 - Compressor stations: Pressure limiting devices

 

(a) Each compressor station must have pressure relief or other suitable protective devices of sufficient capacity and sensitivity to ensure that the maximum allowable operating pressure of the station piping and equipment is not exceeded by more than 10 percent.

(b) Each vent line that exhausts gas from the pressure relief valves of a compressor station must extend to a location where the gas may be discharged without hazard.

(c) A pressure relief valve shall be installed in the discharge line of each positive-displacement transmission compressor between the gas compressor and the first discharge block valve. The relieving capacity shall be equal to or greater than the capacity of the compressor.