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A quick guide to API 653 certified storage tank inspector syllabus example questions and worked answers

Matthews, Clifford.

A quick guide to API 653 certified storage tank inspector syllabus example questions and worked answers

Matthews, Clifford.

New York, N.Y. (ASME, Three Park Avenue. New York, NY 10016) : American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2011.

1 electronic text (xiv, 333 p.) : ill., digital file.

Quick guide

Quick guide series.

Includes index.

Chapter 1. Interpreting API and ASME codes -- Chapter 2. An introduction to API 653: 2009 and its related codes -- Chapter 3. An introduction to API RP 575 -- Chapter 4. Reasons for inspection: damage mechanisms -- Chapter 5. Inspection practices and frequency -- Chapter 6. Evaluation of corroded tanks -- Chapter 7. API 650: tank design -- 8. Tank non-destructive examination -- Chapter 9. Tank repairs and alterations -- Chapter 10. Tank reconstruction -- Chapter 11. Hydrostatic testing and brittle fracture -- Chapter 12. Tank linings: API RP 652 -- Chapter 13. Introduction to welding/API RP 577 -- Chapter 14. Welding qualifications and ASME IX -- Chapter 15. Cathodic protection: API RP 651 -- Chapter 16. The NDE requirements of ASME V -- Chapter 17. Thirty open-book sample questions -- Chapter 18. Answers -- Appendix: Publications effectivity sheet for API 653 exam administration: 21 September 2011 -- Index.

This new Quick Guide reviews one of API's three main Individual Certification Programs (ICPs): API 653: Certified storage tank inspector; Discusses key definitions and scope, inspection regimes and testing techniques relating to tank design, linings, welds, protection systems, repair and alteration; Provides an important resource for these API programs, which are well established in the oil/gas/petroleum industries. API runs multiple examination sites around the world at 6-month intervals. The three main ICPs are: API 570: Certified Pipework Inspector; API 510: Certified Pressure Vessel Inspector; API 653: Certified Storage Tank Inspector.

Oil storage tanks -- Inspection -- Examinations, questions, etc.

Oil storage tanks -- Standards.

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