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Certification
Corrosion and Materials
American Petroleum Institute
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API welcomes highly specialized inspectors, corrosion engineers, chemical engineers and other professionals across the entire petrochemical industry to obtain the API 571 Corrosion and Materials certification as a validation of their profound knowledge of corrosion processes.
Apply corrosion and materials terms, definitions, and acronyms used in refinery equipment integrity assessmentIdentify and describe damage mechanisms affecting fixed equipment in the refining industry including their name and description of damageIdentify materials affected by each damage mechanism in refinery and petrochemical plant equipmentDetermine critical factors that influence the occurrence and rate of each damage mechanism in refining equipmentIdentify units and equipment commonly affected by each damage mechanism in refinery operationsRecognize the appearance and morphology of damage associated with each mechanism on fixed equipment in refinery serviceApply prevention and mitigation methods to address each damage mechanism on fixed equipment in refining industry serviceApply inspection and monitoring methods appropriate for detecting and assessing each damage mechanism on fixed refinery equipmentApply knowledge of mechanical and metallurgical failure mechanisms including brittle fracture, creep, fatigue, and embrittlement to fixed equipment integrityApply knowledge of uniform and localized loss-of-thickness corrosion mechanisms including atmospheric corrosion, corrosion under insulation, and erosion-corrosion to fixed equipmentApply knowledge of high-temperature corrosion mechanisms including oxidation, sulfidation, carburization, nitriding, and high-temperature hydrogen attack to fixed equipmentApply knowledge of environmentally assisted cracking mechanisms including stress corrosion cracking, hydrogen-induced cracking, and wet H2S damage to fixed equipmentApply knowledge of refinery-specific corrosion mechanisms including amine corrosion, caustic corrosion, hydrochloric acid corrosion, and sulfuric acid corrosion to fixed equipment