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API653 Practice Questions

This document contains 15 multiple choice questions from an API 653 exam practice test covering topics related to storage tank inspection and repair. The questions address topics such as methods for measuring tank bottom thickness, out-of-plumbness limits, minimum annular plate ring thickness, weld joint types, pressure testing requirements, floating roof types, oxygen deficient atmosphere thresholds, and criteria for tank surface scraping and radiograph film density evaluation.

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API653 Practice Questions

This document contains 15 multiple choice questions from an API 653 exam practice test covering topics related to storage tank inspection and repair. The questions address topics such as methods for measuring tank bottom thickness, out-of-plumbness limits, minimum annular plate ring thickness, weld joint types, pressure testing requirements, floating roof types, oxygen deficient atmosphere thresholds, and criteria for tank surface scraping and radiograph film density evaluation.

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API 653 EXAMPRACTICE 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

excessively bywelding or other operations, an area of at least ______


should be scraped down to bare metal.
12
13.What is the axis of a weld?
A line through the center of the weld, parallel with the sides of the weld
14.In monitoring the density limitations of radiographs, either a ________
or stepwedge comparison film shall be used for judging film density.
Densitometer
15.During tank roof evaluations, roof plates corroded to an average
thickness of lessthan ______ in any 100 square inch area shall be repaired
or replaced

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