Fix it Right
Raise the Roof
Lingo
The Team
100
Length of a hydrostatic test to be performed on a reconstructed tank or a tank that has undergone major repairs
What is 24 hours?
100
Method to repair an External Floating Roof
What is any method?
API-653 3rd edition Addendum 3 Section 9.12.1 External Floating Roofs states "Any method of repair is acceptable that will restore the roof to a condition enabling it to perform as required."
100
The area on a tank bottom where settlement begins.
What is Breakover Point?
100
Friday's appropriate office attire
What is Hawaiian shirts?
200
Minimum dimension for a replacement shell plate
What is 12 in. or 12 times the replacement plate thickness, whichever is greater?
API-653 3rd edition Addendum 3 Paragraph 9.2.2.1 states "The minimum dimension for a replacement shell plate is 12 in. or 12 times the thickness of the replacement plate, whichever is greater."
200
T/F: Internal and external pontoon roofs must meet the same punctured design conditions
What is True?
See API-650 11th Edition Paragraphs C.3.4.1 & H.4.2.1.3
200
Record which establishes the validity of a WPS
What is a PQR (Procedure Qualification Record)?
200
"Where the money is at" in TI
What is Crude Oil?
Source: Brian
300
To use UT in lieu of RT to test tank construction welds, you follow this
What is API-650 Annex U?
300
Type of roof centering device
What is a Bazooka?
300
A set of steps over a dike wall or piping run that provides access from one side to the other.
Typically follows the contour of the dike wall up and over to the other side or simply spans the distance across ground-based piping around a tank.
What is a Stile?
300
Steve's undergrad school
What is Virginia Tech?
400
Distance where a welded-on patch plate shall be tombstone shaped
What is within 6 in. from the shell?
API-653 3rd Ed. Addenudum 3 Section 9.10.1.2 states "When a welded-on patch plate is within 6 in. of the shell, the welded-on patch plate shall be tombstone shaped."
400
A type of seal on an internal floating roof where a secondary seal is not required
What is a Liquid-Mounted Seal?
"Under current EPA regulations, internal floating roofs equipped with liquid-mounted seals are not required to have secondary seals."
400
The process by which corrosion rates and inspection intervals are established for a candidate tank using corrosion rates and service history from a control tank for the purpose of establishing the next inspection date
What is Similar Service Assessment?
400
Number of employees on the TI team
What is 13?
500
Equation for calculating the limiting stress within a repair area on the shell of a tank, which shall not exceed 7000 lbf/in^2.
S = (2.6 H D G)/t
where:
S = shell stress in lbf/in.2,
H = tank fill height above the bottom of repair or alteration in ft,
t = shell thickness at area of interest in in., D = tank mean diameter in ft,
G = specific gravity of product.
API-653 3rd Ed. Paragraph 12.3.2.3.3
500
Minimum thickness of new roof plates on a supported cone roof
What is 3/16" plus any corrosion allowance as specified in the repair specifications?
500
Inspection technique intended to locate and monitor emissions sources from tank defects in the welds or plate surfaces of the structure by analyzing ultrasonic stress waves that are released when the material deforms under stress.
Relatively newer.
What is AE (Acoustic Emission Testing)?
500
Your game show host's name and major
What is Kimberly Sanchez, Chemical Engineering?