1. What is APCS?

(Saudi Aramco) Approved Protective Coating System.

2. What is MSDS and where it is required?

Material Safety Data Sheet and it is required where the coating is going on.

3. What is SAES-H-001?
Coating Selection and Application Requirements for Industrial Plants and Equipment.

4. What is SAES-H-002?
Internal and External Coatings for Steel Pipelines and Piping.

5. What is SAES-H-100?
Coating Materials & Application Requirements for Industrial Facilities.

6. Which system will apply for safety requirements?

SAES-H-102.

7. Which system will apply for storage and handling?

SAES-H-200.

8. What is FBE & how it is applied?

Fusion Bonded Epoxy and it is applied on a specified preheated blasted surface.

9. What do you call application of paint on weld lines, edges, bolts, nuts and rivets ?
Stripe coat

10. What blasting pressure is required at the nozzle?

90psi

11. What is the voltage requirements for Holiday Test ?

Holiday test voltage shall be 125 volts DC per 25.

12. What is the method of measurement of Dry Paint Thickness with Magnetic
Gages?
SSPC-PA 2

13. From where we can get required coating thickness for any coating system?
From Approved Saudi Aramco Data Sheet or Paint Manufacture Data Sheet
14. What is the paint defects?

 Non-Dry film
- Adding wrong cure
- Not adding correct amount of cure.

 Blushing
- Cool ambient temp
- High humidity

 Run, Sag, Wrinkle

- Appling the coating too thickly.
- Use too much thinner.
- Surface too hot.
- Appling coating at the end of its pot life.

 Holiday
- Poor application

 Chalking
- Exposure to UV light.

 Pinhole
- Air or solvent.

 Orang peel
- Hot air.
- Improper application.
- Air pressure too low.

15. List the methods of cleaning surface.

SSPC-SP1 Solvent Cleaning.

SSPC-SP2 Hand Tool Cleaning.
SSPC-SP3 Power Tool Cleaning.
SSPC-SP5 White Metal Blast Cleaning.
SSPC-SP6 Commercial Blast Cleaning.
SSPC-SP7 Brush-off Blast Cleaning.
SSPC-SP10 Near White Blast Cleaning