API 650
Welded Tanks for Oil Storage- for Engineers, Technologists and Experienced Inspectors
10222-102 Street
Edmonton Alberta T5J 4C5 Canada
1-800-661-6655
Book Accommodations with CASTI Room Rate
Earn: 3.2 CEUs
Objectives
The design requirements of API Standard 650 will be explained and their application demonstrated through example problems. Material, fabrication and erection requirements documentation will also be reviewed. Course participants will gain the knowledge for design of safe and economical storage tanks used in the petroleum and chemical industries. In addition to a general review of API Standard 650, an introduction to tank inspection and evaluation in conformance with API Standard 653 will be included.
Accreditation
Each participant will receive a certificate with 3.2 Continuing Education Units accredited by the International Association of Continuing Education and Training (IACET).
Who Should Attend
Engineers, inspectors, and experienced operators with technology backgrounds who are involved in the construction, inspection, maintenance and repairs of tanks for safe operations in the plant.
Calculations section and problem solving workshops
- Shell design calculations and evaluation procedures
- Tank shell evaluation
- Internal pressure evaluation
- Simple roof evaluation
- Nozzle design criteria and load envelope
- Wind load evaluation
- Seismic load evaluation
- Supported and more complex roof evlauations
- Vacuum load evaluation
Required Code Documents
All participants must bring the API 620, 650 and 653 Codes to this class. These code documents can be purchased from CASTI. A course notebook will be provided to all participants by CASTI.
Alwyn Kaye, M.Eng., P.Eng., graduated from the University of Alberta in 1989 with a Masters Degree in Metallurgical Engineering (Welding) and from the University of Canterbury in 1980 with a Mechanical/Materials Engineering degree. He has over 27 years of experience in fabrication, construction, design, management, inspection and research. He has a strong technical background, specializing in technical project management by hands on outcome success in difficult and unusual plant problems. He has engineered original innovations, repairs, patents and practical solutions to cost saving designs and field problems in the pressure equipment, process piping, storage tanks, and pipeline industries.
Mr. Kaye's field experience includes plant shutdowns, welding, equipment remediation and certification as a National Board Boiler Inspector SCO Cert.#2567, API 510, 570, and 653 certified inspector, AWS Welding Inspector, ASNDT/CGSB Level 1 and 2, MT, PT, UT and Level 1 RT (lapsed).
Alwyn Kaye is an accomplished CASTI instructor, having taught in Canada and internationally with excellent reviews and comments.
