API SIRE - SOURCE INSPECTOR ROTATING EQUIPMENT · PUBLICATION
API 618 in the API SIRE - Source Inspector Rotating Equipment exam
Reciprocating Compressors for Petroleum, Chemical, and Gas Industry Services. Our API SIRE - Source Inspector Rotating Equipment bank draws 199 of its 1,573 questions from this publication — 13% — and they cite 150 different clauses. The clause list below is counted from those questions, not copied from a syllabus.
Clauses the questions cite
The 40 most cited of 150, in document order. The number is how many questions in our bank reference that clause.
Free sample question from API 618
External bottles serve as clearance pockets. What does API 618 require on them?
- A. Drain connections ✓
- B. Relief valves
- C. Pressure relief devices sized for the maximum allowable working pressure of the compressor cylinder
- D. Indicator taps at each end so that the pocket internal pressure may be monitored during operation
- E. Insulation and personnel protection where the surface temperature exceeds the specified limit
Liquid collects in a clearance pocket bottle and has to have somewhere to go, which is why external bottles used as pockets carry drain connections. API 618, 6.8.1.16
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