A quick guide to API 653 certified storage tank inspector syllabus : example questions and worked answers /: example questions and worked answers. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: API 653 certified storage tank inspector syllabus
• Further Information: Note: Clifford Matthews ; series editor, Clifford Matthews.
• Other Names: Matthews, Clifford; American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
• Contents: The Quick Guide Series How to Use This Book Chapter 1: Interpreting API and ASME Codes 1.1 Codes and the real world 1.2 ASME construction codes 1.3 API inspection codes 1.4 Code revisions 1.5 Code illustrations 1.6 New construction versus repair activity 1.7 Conclusion: interpreting API and ASME codes Chapter 2: An Introduction to API 653: 2009 and its Related Codes 2.1 Section 1: scope 2.2 Section 3: definitions 2.3 API 653 scope and definitions: practice questions Chapter 3: An Introduction to API RP 575 3.1 Scope 3.2 API 575 sections 1 and 2: scope and references 3.3 API 575 section 3: definitions 3.4 API 575 section 4: types of storage tanks 3.5 API RP 575: practice questions Chapter 4: Reasons for Inspection: Damage Mechanisms 4.1 The approach to damage mechanisms (DMs) 4.2 API 575 section 5: reasons for inspection 4.3 API 571: introduction 4.4 The first group of DMs 4.5 API 571 practice questions (set 1) 4.6 The second group of DMs 4.7 API 571 practice questions (set 2) 4.8 The third group of API 571 DMs 4.9 API 571 practice questions (set 3) Chapter 5: Inspection Practices Frequency 5.1 API 653 section 6: inspection 5.2 API 653 section 6: view of RBI 5.3 API 575 section 6: inspection frequency and scheduling 5.4 API RP 575: inspection practices 5.5 API 653: inspection intervals: practice questions Chapter 6: Evaluation of Corroded Tanks 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The contents of API 653 section 4: suitability for service 6.3 Tank roof evaluation 6.4 Shell evaluation 6.5 API 653 (4.4): tank bottom evaluation 6.6 Foundation evaluation: API 653 (4.5) 6.7 Bottom settlement: API 653 Annex B 6.8 API 653 section 4: evaluation: practice questions (set 1) 6.9 API 653 appendix B: tank bottom settlement: practice questions (set 2) Chapter 7: API 650: Tank Design 7.1 Reminder: the API 653 body of knowledge (BOK) 7.2 API 650: material allowable stresses 7.3 API 650: material toughness requirements 7.4 Tank component arrangement and sizes 7.5 Some tips on exam questions 7.6 Finally: bits and pieces from the API 650 appendices Chapter 8: Tank Non-destructive Examination 8.1 The ideas behind API 653 section 12: examination and testing 8.2 Weld leak testing 8.3 How much RT does API 650 require? 8.4 How much RT does API 653 require? 8.5 Tank NDE: practice questions Chapter 9: Tank Repairs and Alterations 9.1 Repairs or alterations? 9.2 Hydrotest requirements 9.3 Repair and alterations – practical requirements 9.4 Repair of shell plates 9.5 Shell penetrations 9.6 Adding an additional bottom through an existing tombstone plate (9.9.4) 9.7 Repair of tank bottoms 9.8 Repair of tank roofs 9.9 Hot tapping: API 653 (9.14) 9.10 Tank repair and alteration – other requirements 9.11 Repair and alterations: practice questions Chapter 10: Tank Reconstruction 10.1 Code requirements for tank reconstruction 10.2 Reconstruction responsibilities 10.3 API 653 section 10: structure 10.4 Reconstruction (10.4 and 10.5) 10.5 API 653 section 10: dismantling and reconstruction: practice questions Chapter 11: Hydrostatic Testing and Brittle Fracture 11.1 What is the subject about? 11.2 Why? The objectives of a hydrotest 11.3 When is a hydrotest required? 11.4 Avoiding brittle fracture 11.5 Is a hydrotest needed? API 653 flowchart (Fig. 5-1) 11.6 API 653: hydrotesting: practice questions Chapter 12: Tank Linings: API RP 652 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Linings and their problems, problems, problems 12.3 So where does API 652 fit in? 12.4 European surface preparation standards 12.5 Tank linings: practice questions Chapter 13: Introduction to Welding/API RP 577 13.1 Module introduction 13.2 Welding processes 13.3 Welding consumables 13.4 Welding process familiarization questions 13.5 Welding consumables familiarization questions Chapter 14: Welding Qualifications and ASME IX 14.1 Module introduction 14.1.1 Weld procedure documentation: which code to follow? 14.2 Formulating the qualification requirements 14.3 Welding documentation reviews: the exam questions 14.4 ASME IX article I 14.5 Section QW-140 types and purposes of tests and examinations 14.6 ASME IX article II 14.7 ASME IX articles I and II familiarization questions 14.8 ASME IX article III 14.9 ASME IX article IV 14.10 ASME IX articles III and IV familiarization questions 14.11 The ASME IX review methodology 14.12 ASME IX WPS/PQR review: worked example Chapter 15: Cathodic Protection: API RP 651 15.1 Cathodic protection–what’s it all about? 15.2 The content of API 651 15.3 Determination of the need for cathodic protection (API 651 section 5) 15.4 Criteria for cathodic protection (API 651 section 8) 15.5 Operation and maintenance of CP systems (API 651 section 11) 15.6 API 651: cathodic protection: practice questions Chapter 16: The NDE Requirements of ASME V 16.1 Introduction 16.2 ASME V article 1: general requirements 16.3 ASME V article 2: radiographic examination 16.4 ASME V article 6: penetrant testing (PT) 16.5 ASME V articles 1, 2 and 6: familiarization questions 16.6 ASME V article 7: magnetic testing (MT) 16.7 ASME V article 23: ultrasonic thickness checking 16.8 ASME V articles 7 and 23: familiarization questions Chapter 17: Thirty Open-book Sample Questions Chapter 18: Answers 18.1 Familiarization question answers 18.2 Answers to open-book sample questions Appendix Index
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Woodhead Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (352 pages)
• Subjects: 665.542; Oil storage tanks -- Inspection -- Examinations, questions, etc; Oil storage tanks -- Standards
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857095275; 0857095277
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