API 510 prep

API 510 course and practice exams

Lessons for every task in American Petroleum Institute's outline, worked calculations and timed practice exams at the real length. One payment, lifetime access (at least 3 years).

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What the course covers

8 modules, mapped to the task numbers in American Petroleum Institute's published API 510 content outline. Taught to API 510 11th ed. (2022) and the effectivity-sheet references.

1. API 510: scope, the inspector, repairs and rerating (task IV.1, IV.2, IV.12, IV.13, IV.14, IV.15, V.510)
   What API 510 covers and who does what · Types of inspection and keeping safe during them · Records and reports · Repairs and alterations: authorization and approval · Rerating a vessel
2. Corrosion rates, remaining life and inspection intervals (task I.1, IV.8, IV.9, IV.10)
   Metal loss and corrosion rates · Remaining corrosion allowance and remaining life · Setting internal, on-stream and external inspection intervals · What changes an interval
3. Required thickness and MAWP under Section VIII Division 1 (task I.2, I.3, I.4, I.5, I.8, I.9)
   Weld joint categories, radiography and joint efficiency · Static head and vessel part MAWP · Required thickness and MAWP of cylinders and spheres · Ellipsoidal and hemispherical heads · Attachment welds at openings, reinforcement and external pressure rules
4. Pressure testing and impact test exemptions (task I.6, I.7, IV.16)
   Hydrostatic test pressure and the stress ratio · Pneumatic tests and test safety · Impact testing and minimum design metal temperature · Testing after repairs, alterations and rerating
5. Welding procedures, qualifications and welding practice (task II.A, II.B1, II.B2, II.C, IV.6)
   Reviewing a WPS against its PQR · Welder performance qualification · Section VIII Division 1 and API 510 welding rules · Welding processes and metallurgy from RP 577
6. Nondestructive examination (task III.A1, III.A2, III.A6, III.A7, III.A23, III.B, IV.7)
   Section V general requirements · Radiography: IQIs, density and markers · Liquid penetrant and magnetic particle examination · Ultrasonic thickness measurement · NDE rules in Section VIII Division 1 and API 510
7. Damage mechanisms, materials and vessel inspection practice (task V.571, V.572, IV.3, IV.4, IV.5)
   Corrosion mechanisms on the BOK list · Cracking and high-temperature mechanisms on the BOK list · Materials and fabrication problems · Inspection practice from RP 572
8. Relief devices, material verification and repair methods (task V.576, V.578, V.PCC2, IV.11)
   Pressure-relieving devices and their inspection · Material verification programs · Repair methods in the listed PCC-2 articles

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