William M. (Bill) Huitt - Bioprocessing Piping and Equipment Design: A Companion Guide for the ASME BPE Standard

1. ASME BPE 2014
2. Chapter 01
3. Chapter 02
4. Chapter 03
5. Chapter 04
6. Chapter 07

1. ASME BPE 2014
2. Preface
3. Chapter 03
4. Chapter 01
5. Chapter 02
6. Chapter 03
7. Chapter 04
8. Chapter 05
9. Chapter 06
10. Chapter 07

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William M. (Bill) Huitt

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Huitt, William M., 1943 author.
Title: Bioprocessing piping and equipment design : a companion guide for the ASME BPE standard / William M. (Bill) Huitt.
Description: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016024930| ISBN 9781119284239 (cloth) | ISBN 9781119284253 (ePub) | ISBN 9781119284246 (Adobe PDF)
Subjects: LCSH: Biochemical engineeringEquipment and suppliesStandardsHandbooks, manuals, etc. | Chemical plantsPipingStandardsHandbooks, manuals, etc.
Classification: LCC TP157 .H\87 2017 | DDC 660.6/3dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016024930

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My children and their spouses
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And my grandchildren
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The ASME Bioprocessing Equipment (BPE) Standards Committee membership in 2014 was made up, in whole, of 195 members holding membership to anywhere from one to five committee/subcommittee memberships. The ASME BPE Standards Committee is, as selfdescribed, considered a committee, referring to itself as the ASME BPE Standards Committee, or simply Standards Committee. As indicated in , organizational chart, the ASME BPE Standards Committee reports to the ASME Board on Pressure Technology Codes and Standards (BPTCS). Aside from the BPE Standards Committee, reporting also to the BPTCS are the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC) Committees, the B16 and B31 Committees, and other committees related to pressure containing subject matter.

ASME boards and governing groups

The ASME BPE Committee is divided into a set of subtier groups of interest referred to as subcommittees. In other Standards Committees these subtier groups are referred to as subgroups, not so with the BPE Standards Committee. Among this group of subcommittees there is no hierarchy. They are simply divided by and focused on the various subject matter interests of the BPE Standard and report directly to the BPE Standards Committee. These subject matter interests are referred to as Parts with the following identifiers as referenced in .

Subcommittee subject matter part identifiers

Referring to , it is apparent that each of the subcommittee groups reports to the BPE Standards Committee. The work these subcommittees do, whether its maintaining an existing part in the standard, respective of the subcommittees part title, or in developing a new part for the standard, there is an ongoing liaison effort that takes place between all of the subcommittees. This helps in diverting conflicts among the various subcommittees and in improving content of the standard as a whole.