Contents
Interpreting API and ASME Codes
- Codes and the real world
- ASME construction codes
- API inspection codes
- Code revisions
- Code illustrations
- New construction versus repair activity
- Conclusion: interpreting API and ASME codes
An introduction to API 653: 2009 and its related codes
- Section 1: scope
- Section 3: definitions
- API 653 scope and definitions: practice questions
An Introduction to API RP 575
- Scope
- API 575 sections 1 and 2: scope and references
- API 575 section 3: definitions
- API 575 section 4: types of storage tanks
- API RP 575: practice questions
Reasons for inspections: Damage mechanisms
- The approach to damage mechanisms (DMs)
- API 575 section 5: reasons for inspection
- API 571: introduction
- The first group of DMs
- API 571 practice questions (set 1)
- The second group of DMs
- API 571 practice questions (set 2)
- The third group of API 571 DMs
- API 571 practice questions (set 3)
Inspection practices and frequency
- API 653 section 6: inspection
- API 653 section 6: view of RBI
- API 575 section 6: inspection frequency and scheduling
- API RP 575: inspection practices
- API 653: inspection intervals: practice questions
Evaluation of corroded tanks
- Introduction
- The contents of API 653 section 4: suitability for service
- Tank roof evaluation
- Shell evaluation
- API 653 (4.4): tank bottom evaluation
- Foundation evaluation: API 653 (4.5)
- Bottom settlement: API 653 Annex B
- API 653 section 4: evaluation: practice questions (set 1)
- API 653 appendix B: tank bottom settlement: practice questions (set 2)
API 650: Tank design
Reminder: the API 653 body of knowledge (BOK) API 650: material allowable stresses API 650: material toughness requirements Tank component arrangement and sizes Some tips on exam questions Finally: bits and pieces from the API 650 appendices
Tank non-destructive examination
- The ideas behind API 653 section 12: ‘Examination and testing’
- Weld leak testing
- How much RT does API 650 require?
- How much RT does API 653 require?
- Tank NDE: practice questions
Tank repairs and alteration
- Repairs or alterations
- Hydrotest requirements
- Repair and alterations – practical requirements
- Repair of shell plates
- Shell penetrations
- Adding an additional bottom through an existing tombstone plate (9.9.4)
- Repair of tank bottoms
- Repair of tank roofs
- Hot tapping: API 653 (9.14)
- Tank repair and alteration – other requirements
- Repair and alterations – practice questions
Tank reconstruction
- Code requirements for tank reconstruction
- Reconstruction responsibilities
- API 653 section 10: structure
- Reconstruction (10.4) and (10.5)
- API 653 section 10: dismantling and reconstruction: practice questions
Tank hydrotesting and brittle fracture
- What is the subject about
- Why? The objectives of hydrotest
- When is a hydrotest required?
- Avoiding brittle fracture
- Is a hydrotest needed? API 653 flowchart figure 5.10
- API 653: hydrotesting: practice questions
Tank linings: API RP 652
- Introduction
- Linings and their problems, problems, problems
- So where does API 652 fit in?
- European surface preparation standards
- Tank linings: practice questions
Introduction to welding/API RP 577
- Module introduction
- Welding processes
- Welding consumables
- Welding process familiarization questions
- Welding consumables familiarization questions
Welding qualifications and ASME IX
- Module introduction
- Formulating the qualification requirements
- Welding documentation reviews: the exam questions
- ASME IX article I
- Section QW-140 types and purposes of tests and examinations
- ASME IX article II
- ASME IX articles I and II familiarization questions
- ASME IX article III
- ASME IX article IV
- ASME IX articles III and IV familiarization questions
- The ASME IX review methodology
- ASME IX WPS.PQR review: worked example
Cathodic protection: API RP 651
- Cathodic protection – what’s it all about?
- The content of API 651
- Determination of the need for cathodic protection (API 651 section 5)
- Criteria for cathodic protection (API 651 section 8)
- Operation and maintenance of CP systems (API 651 section 11)
- API 651 cathodic protection: practice questions
The NDE requirements of ASME V
- Introduction
- ASME article 1: general requirements
- ASME V article 2: radiographic examination
- ASME V article 6: penetrant testing (PT)
- ASME V articles 1, 2 and 6: familiarization questions
- ASME V article 7: magnetic testing (MT)
- ASME V article 23: ultrasonic thickness checking
- ASME V articles 7 and 23: familiarization questions
Thirty open-book sample questions
