The purpose of these guidelines is to promote safety in the use of stationary, portable, and traction type boilers. This Section provides such guidelines to assist operators of power boilers in maintaining plant safety. Emphasis has been placed on industrial type boilers because of their extensive use.

This publication is issued with an automatic addenda service.  All addenda service publications are issued in loose leaf format to facilitate later insertion of replacement pages which incorporate the latest approved changes to the standard.  Purchasers may wish to purchase a binder from ASME (BPVC Binder), but the publication will also fit a standard three ring binder.  Details on the specifics of the addenda service are as follows:

Addenda Schedule:  Yearly
Next Edition: 3 years
Interpretations:  With Addenda

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