{"id":113,"count":5,"description":"The <strong>API 653<\/strong> standard (Tank Inspection, Repair, Alteration, and Reconstruction) governs the inspection programme for welded steel atmospheric storage tanks. It defines periodic external inspections, formal internal inspections and thickness measurements of the shell, bottom and roof in order to calculate corrosion rates and the following inspection intervals. \n\nIn this section we bring together the articles devoted to tank inspections according to API 653, focusing on ultrasonic thickness measurement and on corrosion mapping techniques.\nDakota instruments for API 653 tanks\n\n \t<a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasuonindt.it\/prodotti\/misuratori-di-spessore\/dakota-cmx-series-misuratori-di-corrosione-con-a-scan\/\">Dakota CMX Series<\/a> \u2014 corrosion gauges with A-Scan for shell inspections.\n \t<a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasuonindt.it\/prodotti\/misuratori-di-spessore\/dakota-mx2-dl-misuratore-di-corrosione-a-scan-b-scan\/\">Dakota MX1-DL \/ MX2-DL<\/a> \u2014 A-Scan, B-Scan and data logger for complete bottom and roof mapping.\n \t<a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasuonindt.it\/prodotti\/misuratori-di-spessore\/dakota-cx8-dl-misuratore-con-data-logger-e-b-scan\/\">Dakota CX8-DL<\/a> \u2014 pulse-echo, Echo-Echo and B-Scan with storage of measurement points.\n\nFurther reading\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasuonindt.it\/api-570-api-653-requisiti-strumentazione-ndt\/\">API 570 and API 653 instrumentation requirements<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasuonindt.it\/ispezione-spessore-serbatoi-stoccaggio-api-653\/\">Thickness testing of API 653 atmospheric tanks<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasuonindt.it\/come-funziona-misura-ultrasonica-spessore-principi-base\/\">Ultrasonic thickness measurement: principles<\/a>\n\nTo set up an API 653 plan with Dakota instruments and centralised data management via DakMaster\u2122, contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasuonindt.it\/contatti\/\">RODER<\/a> team.","link":"https:\/\/ultrasuonindt.it\/en\/argomento\/api-653-tank-inspection\/","name":"API 653 Tank Inspection","slug":"api-653-tank-inspection","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>API 653 Tank Inspection Archivi - ULTRASUONI NDT<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ultrasuonindt.it\/en\/argomento\/api-653-tank-inspection\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"API 653 Tank Inspection Archivi - ULTRASUONI NDT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The API 653 standard (Tank Inspection, Repair, Alteration, and Reconstruction) governs the inspection programme for welded steel atmospheric storage tanks. 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