API 579-1 ASME FFS-1: Fitness for Service: Pressure Vessels, Tanks and Piping Systems
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API 579-1 ASME FFS-1: Fitness for Service: Pressure Vessels, Tanks and Piping Systems Course
Introduction:
Ensuring the functionality of current equipment while maintaining its integrity is essential. Achieving this involves thoroughly evaluating the equipment's condition and determining its appropriateness for the intended service. Fitness-For-Service (FFS) assessments constitute precise engineering evaluations conducted to validate the structural soundness of pressure equipment or components in operation, even when flaws or damages are present. This was initiated in June 2007 by API and ASME.
Course Objectives:
- Latest techniques to determine the fitness-for-service of operating tanks, vessels, piping systems, and pipelines; and make cost-effective run-repair replace decisions based on the principles of API recommended practice 579 "Fitness-for-Service"
- A balanced approach between the fundamental technical principles of structural integrity, stress and fracture analysis, and their practical application to field conditions
- Provides the participants with the tools necessary to recognize and assess defects in pressure vessels, storage tanks, and piping
- Presents and applies the fundamentals rules of the ASME code to operating equipment and systems
- Introduces the participants to the practical application of the ASME and API rules for the structural integrity of static equipment and pipelines, and their use to assess the remaining life
- Applies API/ASME 579 "Fitness-for-Service" through practical examples to analyze degraded conditions and make a cost-effective repair or use-as-is decisions
- Applies the step-by-step 3-level approach of API/ASME 579 to evaluate inspection results and recognize potential failure modes
- The technical basis for reliability-based (risk-based) evaluation of remaining life
- Latest developments in defect assessment techniques, starting with simple rules (level 1) and progressing to the more comprehensive evaluation techniques (level 3)
- Participants will be able to evaluate the structural integrity of corroded or damaged equipment and assess their remaining life. Degradation mechanisms include: brittle fracture, general metal loss, local wall thinning, pitting, blisters and laminations, mechanical defects (dents, gouges, misalignment, and distortion), crack-like flaws (stress corrosion cracking, weld
- flaws, crack-like defects), fatigue, and fire damage
Who Should Attend?
This training program is intended for technical professionals, supervisors, and managers responsible for ensuring the integrity and cost-effective operation of in-service pressure equipment, storage tanks, piping and pipelines throughout their life cycle including design, operation, and maintenance in the petroleum, petrochemical, process and power industries:
- Plant engineers and designers, corrosion and materials engineers, project engineers
- Reliability and integrity supervisors and engineers including safeguarding/MOC engineers
- Inspection engineers and inspectors responsible for monitoring and assessing the condition of pressure equipment and piping systems
- Maintenance and operations supervisors and engineers responsible for shutdown planning and implementation, maintenance and repairs/alterations of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, storage tanks, piping, and pipelines
Course Outlines:
Foundations of Fitness-For-Service Assessment
- Introduction
- Overview of API codes and standards
- Overview of ASME codes and standards with historical background
- Overview of Mechanical Integrity of Pressure Vessels & Piping System
- Fitness For Service
- Overview of API 579 contents, objectives and applications
- How to apply API 579 for cost-effective run-or-repair decisions
- Fitness-for-Service Assessment procedure
- An overview of what is new in the latest release
- Structure and Contents of the FFS Standard
- List of Parts and Annexes and examples of major Parts
- PART 1 - Introduction
- PART 2 - Fitness-For-Service Engineering Assessment Procedure
Background of Stress Calculations for FSS Assessment
- ANNEX A - Thickness, MAWP & Stress Equations for a FFS Assessment
- Calculation of tmin, MAWP (MFH) & Membrane Stress
- Pressure Vessel & Boiler Components: Shells, Heads, Nozzles
- Piping components & Boiler Tubes
- Storage Tanks
- ANNEX G - Damage Mechanisms
- Deterioration and Failure Modes
- Pre-Service and In-Service Deficiencies
- NDE (NDT) Techniques
- PT, VT, MT, ET, UT, RT
Assessment of Existing Equipment for Brittle Fracture
- Overview of Brittle Fracture Mechanism
- Data Requirements
- Assessment Techniques and Acceptance Criteria (Levels 1-3)
- Remaining Life Assessment and Remediation
Metal Loss, Corrosion, Pitting and Blisters
Assessment of General Metal Loss
- Overview of Corrosion Mechanisms
- Data Requirements
- Assessment Techniques and Acceptance Criteria (Levels 1-3)
- Remaining Life Assessment and Remediation
- Worked example
Assessment of Local Metal Loss
- Overview of Local Metal Loss Mechanisms
- Data Requirements
- Assessment Techniques and Acceptance Criteria (Levels 1-3)
- Remaining Life Assessment and Remediation
- Worked example
Assessment of Pitting Corrosion
- Overview of Pitting Corrosion Mechanisms
- Data Requirements
- Assessment Techniques and Acceptance Criteria (Levels 1-3)
- Remaining Life Assessment and Remediation
- Worked example
Hydrogen Blisters, HIC & SOHIC
- Overview of Hydrogen Damage
- Data Requirements
- Assessment Techniques and Remaining Life Assessment and Remediation
- Acceptance Criteria (Levels 1-3)