API 653 Recertification Publications Effectivity Sheet: Effective: June 15, 2017
API 653 Recertification Publications Effectivity Sheet: Effective: June 15, 2017
The API 653 Recertification Quiz is based on questions derived from and reflecting the changes
that occurred in the following documents over the past 6 years. Please familiarize yourself with
the following editions and addenda of these documents:
API Recommended Practice 571, Damage Mechanisms Affecting Fixed Equipment in the Refining
Industry, 2nd Edition, April 2011
ATTENTION: Only the following sections / mechanisms from RP 571 are included on the
web quiz:
Section 3, Definitions
Par. 4.2.7 Brittle Fracture
4.2.16 Mechanical Fatigue
4.3.2 Atmospheric Corrosion
4.3.3 Corrosion Under insulation (CUI)
4.3.8 Microbiologically Induced Corrosion (MIC)
4.3.9 Soil Corrosion
4.3.10 Caustic Corrosion
4.5.1 Chloride Stress Corrosion Cracking (Cl-SCC)
4.5.3 Caustic Stress Corrosion Cracking (Caustic Embrittlement)
5.1.1.10 Sour Water Corrosion (Acidic)
5.1.1.11 Sulfuric Acid Corrosion
API Recommended Practice 575, Inspection of Atmospheric and Low-Pressure Storage Tanks,
Third Edition, April 2014
API Recommended Practice 577 Welding Inspection and Metallurgy, Second Edition, December
2013
API Standard 650, Welded Tanks for Oil Storage, Twelfth Edition, March 2013 with Addendum 1
(September 2014), Errata 1 (July 2013), and Errata 2 (December 2014).
API Recommended Practice 651, Cathodic Protection of Aboveground Petroleum Storage Tanks,
Fourth Edition, September 2014.
API Recommended Practice 652, Lining of Aboveground Petroleum Storage Tank Bottoms, Fourth
Edition, September 2014
API Standard 653, Tank Inspection, Repair, Alteration, and Reconstruction, Fifth Edition,
November 2014.
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