STANDARD SPECIFICATION

3 LAYER POLYETHELENE COATING

OF PIPELINES
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STANDARD SPECIFICATION
FOR
3 LAYER POLYETHYLENE COATING
OF LINEPIPES

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API American Petroleum Institute

APS Application Procedure Specification
ASME The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
CD Cathodic Disbondment/ Compact Disc
CSA Canadian Standards Association
d Days
DFT Dry film thickness
DIN Deutsches Institut fiir Normung
DNVGL Det Norske Veritas & Germanischer Lloyd
DSC Differential Scanning Calorimetry
EN European Standards
ESCR Environmental Stress Crack Resistance
FBE Fusion Bonded Epoxy
h Hours
HDPE High density polyethylene
ISO International Organization for Standardization
MFR Mass Flow Rate
PE Polyethylene
PP Polypropylene
ppd per pipe diameter
PQT Procedure Qualification Tests
RO Reverse Osmosis
SSPC The Society for Protective Coatings
s seconds
UV Ultravoilet

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CONTENTS

1.0 SCOPE........................................................................................................... 4

2.0 REFERENCE DOCUMENTS ................................................................................. 4

3.0 COMPLIANCE .............................................................................................. 6

4.0 PLANT SCALE AND INSTALLATION............................................................... 6

5.0 REQUIREMENTS FOR QUALITY ....................................................................... 7

6.0 COATING CLASSIFICATION .............................................................................. 8

7.0 MATERIALS ................................................................................................. 8

8.0 COATING SYSTEM QUALIFICATION ............................................................... 13

9.0 APPLICATION OF COATING .............................................................................. 20

10.0 INSPECTION AND TESTING ............................................................................... 26

11.0 REPAIR OF COATING .......................................................................................... 29

12.0 MARKING .................................................................................................... 30

13.0 HANDLING, TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE ......................................... 31

14.0 MEASUREMENT AND LOGGING ...................................................................... 32

ANNEXURE I (List of Acceptable Combinations of Coating Materials)............... 33

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1.0 SCOPE
This specification covers the minimum requirements for supply of all materials, plant,
equipment, plant sites, consumables, utilities including all labour, supervision, inspection and
tests etc. for plant-application of external anti-corrosion coating of pipes by using 'Three (3)
Layer Side Extruded Polyethylene (3LPE)' conforming to ISO 21809 — 1: 2011 "Petroleum
and natural gas industries — External coatings for buried and submerged pipeline transportation
systems — Part 1: Polyolefin Coatings (3-layer PE and 3-Layer PP)" and the requirements of
this specification.
2..0 REFERENCE DOCUMENTS

2..1 Reference has also been made to the latest edition (edition enforce at the time of issue of
enquiry) of the following standards, codes and specifications. The edition enforce at the time
of floating the enquiry shall be termed as latest edition.

API RP 5L1 : Recommended practice for railroad transportation of line pipe

API RP 5LT : Recommended practice for truck transportation of line pipe
API RP 5LW : Recommended practice for transportation of line pipe on barges and
marine vessels
API Spec 5L : Specification for line pipe
ASME B31.4 : Pipeline transportation systems for liquids and slurries
ASME B31.8 : Gas transmission and distribution piping systems
ASTM D149 : Standard Test Method of Dielectric Breakdown Voltage and
Dielectric Strength of Solid Electrical Insulating Materials at
Commercial Frequencies
ASTM D257 : Standard Test Methods for DC Resistance or Conductance of
Insulating Materials
ASTM D790 : Standard Test Methods for Flexural Properties of Unreinforced and
Reinforced Plastics and Electrical Insulating Materials
ASTM D1603 : Standard test method for carbon black content in olefin plastics
ASTM D1693 : Standard Test Method for Environmental Stress-Cracking of
Ethylene Plastics
ASTM D3895 : Standard Test Method for Oxidative-Induction Time of Polyolefin’s
by Differential Scanning Calorimetric
ASTM D4940 : Standard Test Method for Conduct metric Analysis of Water Soluble
Ionic Contamination of Blasting Abrasives
CSA Z245.20 : Plant applied external coatings for steel pipe

DIN 30670 : Polyethylene coatings on steel pipes and fittings - Requirements and
testing

DNVGL-ST-F101 : Submarine pipeline systems

DNVGL-RP-F102 : Pipeline field joint coating and field repair of line pipe coating

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DNVGL-RP-F 106 : Factory applied external pipeline coatings for corrosion control
DIN VDE 0433-2 : Generation and measurement of high voltages; Specifications for
voltage measurement by means of sphere gaps (one sphere earthed)
EN 10204 : Metallic products - Types of inspection documents
ISO 306 : Plastics - Thermoplastic materials - Determination of Vicat
softening temperature (VST)
ISO 572 : Plastics - Determination of tensile properties\
Part 2 - Test conditions for molded and extruded plastics
Part 3 - Test conditions for films and sheets
ISO 868 : Plastics and ebonite - Determination of indentation hardness by
means of a durometer (Shore hardness)
ISO 1133 : Plastics - Determination of the melt mass-flow rate (MFR) and melt
volume-flow rate (MVR) of thermoplastics
ISO 1183 : Plastics - Methods for determining the density of non-cellular
Plastics
ISO 2808 : Paints and varnishes - Determination of film thickness
ISO 3146 : Plastics - Determination of melting behavior (melting temperature or
melting range) of semi- crystalline polymers by capillary tube and
Polarizing-microscope methods
ISO 8501 : Preparation of steel substrates before application of paints and related
products — Visual assessment of surface cleanliness
Part 1 - Rust grades and preparation grades of uncoated steel
substrates and of steel substrates after overall removal of
previous coatings
ISO 8502 : Preparation of steel substrate before application of paints and related
products -Tests for the assessment of surface cleanliness
Part 3 - Assessment of dust on steel surfaces prepared for painting
(pressure sensitive tape method)
Part 9 - Field method for the conductometric determination of water
soluble salts
ISO 8503 : Preparation of steel substrates before application of paints and related
products- Surface roughness characteristics of blast-cleaned steel
Substrates
Part 1 - Specifications and definitions for ISO surface profile
comparators for the assessment of abrasive blast cleaned
surfaces
Part 2 - Method of grading of surface profile of abrasive blast
cleaned steel - Comparator procedure
Part 4 - Method for the calibration of ISO surface profile
comparators and for the determination of surface profile -
stylus instrument procedure

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