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    API 510-OPEN- 10

    IRE Chapter II Questions

    A vessel made of A-285 Gr. C carbon steel is in service below 60° F; it is in service below its
    1 transition temperature and it has a minor weld defect. What type of failure would you expect if it is
    exposed to a sharp increase in pressure? IRE Guide, Chapter II, 201.02

    a. Stress corrosion cracking.


    b. Ductile failure.
    c. Brittle fracture.
    d. Hydrogen attack

    2 Which of the following is not a corrosive component of crude oil? IRE Guide, Chapter II, 201.021

    a. Hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans.


    b. Pure oil with no contaminants.
    c. Hydrogen chloride, organic and inorganic chlorides.
    d. Dissolved oxygen and water.

    Which of the following corrodents where added as part of the refining process? IRE Guide, Chapter
    3
    II, 202.021 and 202.03.
    a. Sulfuric acid and hydrogen chloride.
    b. Hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans.
    c. Hydrogen chloride, organic and inorganic chlorides.
    d. Nitrogen components.

    4 High temperature sulphide corrosion occurs between _________ °F. IRE Guide, Chapter II, 202.203
    a. 300° F to 600°F
    b. 450° F to 900°F
    c. 600° F to 1200°F
    d. 200° F to 500°F

    A common type of stress corrosion cracking that occurs in carbon steels in petroleum refineries is
    5
    that caused by sodium hydroxide. This type is commonly called: IRE Guide, Chapter II, 202.064

    a. Chloride cracking.
    b. Caustic embrittlement.
    c. Erosion/Corrosion.
    d. High temperature embrittlement.

    The most active media in producing stress corrosion cracking in the austenitic stainless steels such
    6
    as 18 chromium-8 nickel are: IRE Guide, Chapter II, 202.064
    a. Hydrogen sulfide.
    b. Sodium peroxide
    c. Aqueous acid chloride solutions
    d. Moist sulfur dioxide
    In galvanic corrosion, if materials listed far apart in the galvanic chart are placed together in contact
    7 (magnesium and 18-8 stainless steel) with an "electrolyte" the material on the end will: IRE Guide,
    Chapter II, 202.064
    a. The magnesium will not be changed.
    b. The stainless steel will corrode.
    c. There will be no change.
    d. It will corrode rapidly.

    Incipient melting occurs if ferritic steels are heated above approximately ________°F. IRE Guide,
    8
    Chapter II, 204.022
    a. 2600°F
    b. 1650°F
    c. 1200°F
    d. 1000°F

    What is the term used for when cretin ferritic steels are operated between 825°F and 1400°F and
    9 the cemenite or carbon which gives ferritic steels their strength is unstable and decomposes into
    iron (ferrite) crystals and graphite (carbon) nodules? IRE Guide, Chapter II, 204.022
    a. Incipient melting.
    b. Graphitization.
    c. Grain growth.
    d. Graphitic corrosion.

    A change occurs to normally ductile ferritic chrome steels (400 series stainless steels- 405, 410,
    ### 430, ect) when exposed to temperatures around 750°F to 1000°F. It becomes brittle at temperatures
    below 200° F. This is referred to as:
    a. Metal dusting.
    b. Stress corrosion cracking,
    c. 885 imbrittlement
    d. Sensitization.

    API 510-OPEN- 10-Answers

    1 c
    2 b
    3 a
    4 b
    5 b
    6 c
    7 d
    8 a
    9 b
    ### c

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