Hong Kong Regulations

BOILERS AND PRESSURE VESSELS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 14

Requirements with respect to pipes used for conveying fuel to burners

(1) Every pipe used for the purpose of conveying fuel from a pump or gravity
tank to the burners in a fuel burning installation shall be constructed of
suitable seamless material or, if it is of welded construction, shall be
welded in accordance with a recognized engineering standard or code. (87 of
1988 s. 49)

(2) No connection between any such pipe and any other fitting shall be made by
means of soft solder.

(3) The flanges of any such pipe that conveys liquid fuel under pressure shall
be machined so as, as far as practicable, to be metal to metal, and any
jointing shall be of the thinnest material practicable and impervious to oil
heated to a temperature of 120o Celsius. (L.N. 107 of 1979; 87 of 1988 s. 49)