Training Certificate

Prolific Consultants FZE Certificate of Course Completion will be issued to all attendees.

Course Introduction

Storage tanks plays important role in petroleum industry. Managing the safety and operation of storage tanks is very important.  This course is intended to guide the participant to the design, construction, inspection, repair and maintenance of storage tanks and introduces engineers to the application of various codes and standards applied to storage tanks. This course pays attention to relevant API standard as main reference to the topic in question.

Course Objective

• Provide the fundamentals design requirements for new storage tanks
• Understand the various techniques available for safe site build and achieving quality  assured standard for the construction of storage tanks
• Consider maintenance strategies for the inspection, assessment repair and maintenance of storage tanks
• To Learn design code and standards for storage tanks, materials of storage construction and methods used for construction of storage tanks.

Suitable For

• Inspection Engineers
• Operation Engineers and Supervisors
• Mechanical Maintenance Engineers and Supervisors
• Mechanical Design Engineers

Training Methodology

A highly interactive combination of lectures and discussion sessions will be managed to maximize the amount and quality of information and knowledge transfer. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions, and motivate everybody find the right answers. You will also be encouraged to raise your own questions and to share in the development of the right answers using your own analysis and experiences. Tests of multiple-choice type will be made available on daily basis to examine the effectiveness of delivering the course.

Very useful Course Materials will be given.

• 30% Lectures
• 30% Workshops and work presentation
• 20% Group Work & Practical Exercises
• 20% Videos & General Discussions

Course Content

• SHOP-FABRICATED TANKS

1. Introduction: A History of Storage Tank Systems
2. Classification of Storage Tanks:

• Function that it serves
• Structural design
• Normal pressure

3. Storage Tank Safety

• Fire Fighting Guidelines
• Preparing for Personnel Entry

4. History of the Uniform Fire Code

5. Quality Control on USTs and ASTs

6. Non – destructive Testing (NDT) of Storage Tanks

7. UST and AST Fabrication

8. Storage Tank Specification Considerations

9. To Bury or Not to Bury: Steel Tank Technology Decisions

• UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS (UST)

1. UST Design: The Wall Thickness Question

2. Development of UL Standards for Underground Steel Tank Safety

3. Steel UST Technologies

4. Underground Storage Tank Installation

5. UST Performance

6. Corrosion and Cathodic Protection on Underground Storage Tanks

7. How to Specify UST System Equipment

• ABOVEGROUND STORAGE TANKS (AST)

1. AST Design
2. Fixed roof versus floating roof

2. Development of UL Standards for Aboveground Steel Tank Safety

3. Secondary Containment for Non-insulated Steel Aboveground Storage Tank Systems

4. AST Environmental Regulations

5. Plan Review and Inspection of Aboveground Storage Tanks

6. Aboveground Storage Tank Installation

7. How to Specify AST System Equipment

• API  STANDARDS OF STORAGE TANK

1. Historical Perspective on Standards and Codes

2. API Standard 650

• Materials

• Design

• Fabrication

• Construction

• Marking

• Design of Foundations

• External Floating Roofs

• Internal Floating Roofs

3. API Standard 653

• Introduction to Tank Failures

• Tank Repair and Alteration

• Tank Inspection

• Marking and Recordkeeping

• Tank Settlement types

• Checklists for Tank Inspection

• Certification requirements

• Riveted Tanks.

• Underground Leak Detection

• Subgrade Protection