Suitability-for-Service for OSHA Compliance When Equipment Design Documentation is Missing
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires owner-operators to maintain essential documentation authenticating adequate design and maintenance of pressure vessels and storage tanks. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon to find equipment operating in industry with minimal or no documentation. This has become even more common in recent years with the re-purposing of assets for […]
Implementing Corporate Standards to Achieve Safe & Reliable Operations with Equity Engineering Practices
Corporate standards are essential for sharing knowledge across your company and ensuring your plant and equipment are operating safely and reliably. Seamlessly integrating legacy documents and subject matter expert (SME) knowledge into your standards will enhance mechanical integrity programs, improve equipment availability, and reduce inspection and maintenance costs. In development for more than 20 years, […]
Turnaround Planning and Execution – Practical Damage Mechanism and Fitness-For-Service Considerations
Lost production opportunity costs during turnarounds are a significant problem for plant owner-operators. That is why optimizing inspection scopes and being prepared to evaluate unanticipated damage is essential to maximize the effectiveness of any turnaround.
Piping Vibration: Measurement, Analysis, and Practical Solutions for Process Facilities
This course combines a rigorous technical overview of measurement and severity analysis of piping vibration from the perspective of plant engineers that are interested in identifying if a problem actually exists, how it should be evaluated, and, if necessary, how it should be mitigated. Not all piping vibration needs to be addressed; therefore, this course […]
Pressure Vessels: ASME VIII-1
Pressure Vessels: ASME VIII-1 This Pressure Vessels: ASME VIII-1 course provides the engineer a practical understanding of the basics of pressure vessel design rules of the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code, Section VIII, Division 1 (ASME VIII-1). The course covers an overview of the organization of ASME VIII-1 including general requirements, component design, material […]
Omega Creep Testing for FFS and Remaining Life Decisions
This webinar will describe the applications of Omega method creep testing, and how Omega testing can be used in fitness-for-service assessments to help make replacement decisions. The webinar will cover when an Omega test is appropriate, handling un-listed materials, specimen selection, metallurgical considerations, and interpretation of results. Case studies from a variety of materials will […]
Process Piping
This Process Piping course provides the learner a basic, practical understanding of the piping design and analysis requirements of the ASME B31.3 Process Piping Code. The course details piping component and system design, material considerations, fabrication, and examination and testing. It focuses on design loads for piping, design for internal pressure, piping flexibility analysis, branch […]
Fitness for Service
Prerequisite: Prior to attending this course, attendees will be required to read and study course materials presenting the overview and introductory sections (Parts 1 and 2) of the API FFS Standard. Volumetric Metal Loss & Planar Flaws– API FFS Parts 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9 The primary focus of this training session is the Level […]
Pressure Relieving Systems
This Pressure Relieving Systems hybrid training course will provide attendees with practical experience involving Pressure Relief Devices (PRDs). This course covers proper sizing, selection, and installation of PRDs to ensure adequate overpressure protection is provided and reduce hazards if a PRD discharges. The course content includes 3% inlet pressure drop requirements, sizing of PRDs in […]
Verification and Validation of the Plausible Profiles (Psqr) Method for the Assessment of Corroded Pipelines
The Plausible Profiles (Psqr) method has been proposed as a means for reducing conservativism in a Level 2 Fitness-For-Service (FFS) evaluation of corrosion damage; and is being considered for adoption by both the ASME B31.G and API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 code committees.
Risk-Based Inspection
This API-branded Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) training course gives attendees the basic understanding of RBI principles, recommendations, requirements, and the methodologies of API RP 580 and 581. With a heavy emphasis on API RP 581 technology, students learn how to apply RBI technology to processing equipment by determining the probability of failure, the consequence of failure, […]
Damage Mechanisms
This course provides an overview of the key refining damage mechanisms (DMs) addressed in API RP 571. The course associates each of these DMs with major refining process units, highlighting where these DMs are usually observed. The most common DMs found in the following process units will be presented: crude, fluid catalytic cracking, hydroprocessing, catalytic […]
