A quick guide to API 510 certified pressure vessel inspector syllabus : example questions and worked answers / Clifford Matthews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matthews, Clifford.

Series:

Quick guide (Cambridge, England)

The quick guide series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pressure vessels--Inspection--Examinations, questions, etc.

Pressure vessels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Woodhead Pub. Ltd., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The API Individual Certification Programs (ICPs) are well established worldwide in the oil, gas, and petroleum industries. This Quick Guide is unique in providing simple, accessible and well-structured guidance for anyone studying the API 510 Certified Pressure Vessel Inspector syllabus by summarizing and helping them through the syllabus and providing multiple example questions and worked answers.Technical standards are referenced from the API 'body of knowledge' for the examination, i.e. API 510 Pressure vessel inspection, alteration, rerating; API 572 Pressure vessel inspection; API

Contents:

Cover; A Quick Guide to API 510 Certified Pressure Vessel Inspector Syllabus: Example Questions and Worked Answers; Copyright; Contents; The Quick Guide Series; How to Use This Book; Chapter 1 Interpreting ASME and API 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 510 (Sections 1-4); 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Section 1: scope; 2.3 Section 3: definitions

2.4 Section 4: owner/user/inspection organizations2.5 API 510 sections 1-4 familiarization questions; Chapter 3 API 510 Inspection Practices (Section 5); 3.1 Introduction to API 510 section 5: inspection practices; 3.2 Inspection types and planning; 3.3 Condition monitoring locations (CMLs); 3.4 Section 5.8: pressure testing; 3.5 API 510 section 5 familiarization questions; Chapter 4 API 510 Frequency and Data Evaluation (Sections 6 and 7); 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The contents of section 6; 4.3 API 510 section 6 familiarization questions

4.4 Section 7: inspection data evaluation, analysis and recording4.5 API 510 section 7 familiarization questions; Chapter 5 API 510 Repair, Alteration, Re-rating (Section 8); 5.1 Definitions; 5.2 Re-rating; 5.3 Repairs; 5.4 API 510 section 8 familiarization questions; Chapter 6 API 572 Inspection of Pressure Vessels; 6.1 API 572 introduction; 6.2 API 572 section 4: types of pressure vessels; 6.3 API 572 Section 4.3: materials of construction; 6.4 API 572 sections 5, 6 and 7; 6.5 API 572 section 8: corrosion mechanisms; 6.6 API 572 section 9: frequency and time of inspection

6.7 API 572 section 10: inspection methods and limitations6.8 API 572 section 10 familiarization questions; Chapter 7 API 571 Damage Mechanisms; 7.1 API 571 introduction; 7.2 The first group of DMs; 7.3 API 571 familiarization questions (set 1); 7.4 The second group of DMs; 7.5 API 571 familiarization questions (set 2); 7.6 The third group of DMs; Chapter 8 API 576 Inspection of Pressure-Relieving Devices; 8.1 Introduction to API 576; 8.2 API 576 sections 3 and 4: types (definitions) of pressure-relieving devices; 8.3 Types of pressure-relieving device

8.4 API 576 section 5: causes of improper performance8.5 API 576 section 6: inspection and testing; 8.6 API 576 familiarization questions; Chapter 9 ASME VIII Pressure Design; 9.1 The role of ASME VIII in the API 510 syllabus; 9.2 How much of ASME VIII is in the API 510 syllabus?; 9.3 ASME VIII clause numbering; 9.4 Shell calculations: internal pressure; 9.5 Head calculations: internal pressure; 9.6 Set 1: shells/heads under internal pressure familiarization questions; 9.7 ASME VIII: MAWP and pressure testing; 9.8 Set 2: MAWP and pressure testing familiarization questions

9.9 External pressure shell calculations

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-85709-102-6

OCLC:

867317628