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4.6.3 Limitations<br />

Conventional safety-relief valves should not be used in the following applications:<br />

a) where the total built-up backpressure exceeds the allowable overpressure;<br />

b) where the cold differential test pressure (CDTP) cannot be reduced to account for the<br />

effects of variable backpressure (see <strong>API</strong> 520, Part 1);<br />

c) on ASME BPVC Section I steam boiler drums or ASME BPVC Section I superheaters;<br />

d) as pressure control or bypass valves.<br />

Fion Zhnag/ Charlie Chong

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