API653 Practice Questions
API653 Practice Questions
(CLOSED BOOK)
1. Two methods of quantifying the remaining thickness of tank
bottoms arementioned in API 653. One method uses the formula involving
MRT. What is the name of the other method?
Probabilistic and Deterministic
2. What is the maximum out-of-plumbness allowed from the top of
the shell to the bottom of the shell on a 48 high tank?
5.00
3.Due to strength requirements, the minimum thickness of an
annular plate ring isusually greater than:
0.100
4.The joint between the new material of an insert plate and the old
material of the existing tank shell plate shall be:
Butt welded
5.A pressure test at least 1.5 times the __________ shall be
performed on a nozzleinstalled by hot tapping after the valve has been
installed on it and prior to mounting the hot tap machine.
Hydrostatic head
6.Cone roof storage tanks may be as large as ______ feet in
diameter.
300
7 . Th e s i mp l e s t t yp e o f f l o a t i n g r o o f i s t h e :
Pan
8.An oxygen deficient atmosphere exists when a tank atmosphere
has less thanwhat percent oxygen by volume?
19.5%
9.Lead-in-Air analyzers must be designed to measure _______
Lead-in-Air concentrations.
Organic
10.Entry into a confined space is considered to have occurred as soon as:
A part of the entrants body breaks the plane of an opening into the space.
11.When repairs involve most of the tank bottom, it may be desirable to
displace theflammable liquids beneath the tank by:
Water flooding
12.Tank surfaces that have been in contact with leaded gasoline should be
scrapeddown to bare metal. On each side of a line that might be heated