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API 579-1/ASME FFS-1: Fitness-for-Service (FFS) of Process Plant Equipment, Pressure Vessels, Piping and Storage Facilities Training
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API 579-1/ASME FFS-1: Fitness-for-Service (FFS) of Process Plant Equipment, Pressure Vessels, Piping and Storage Facilities Training Course
Introduction:
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
- List of Parts and Annexes and examples of major Parts
- - Introduction
- - Fitness-For-Service Engineering Assessment Procedure
- Structure and Contents of the FFS Standard
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
- PT, VT, MT, ET, UT, RT
- Overview of Brittle Fracture Mechanism
- Data Requirements
- Assessment Techniques and Acceptance Criteria (Levels 1-3)
- Remaining Life Assessment and Remediation
- NDE (NDT) Techniques
- - Assessment of Existing Equipment for Brittle Fracture
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
- Overview of Pitting Corrosion Mechanisms
- Data Requirements
- Assessment Techniques and Acceptance Criteria (Levels 1-3)
- Remaining Life Assessment and Remediation
- Worked example
- Overview of Hydrogen Damage
- Data Requirements
- Assessment Techniques and Acceptance Criteria (Levels 1-3)
- Remaining Life Assessment and Remediation
- - Assessment of Pitting Corrosion
- - Hydrogen Blisters, HIC & SOHIC
Local Damage, Cracks, Creep
- - Weld Misalignment & Shell Distortions
- Overview of Weld Misalignment & Shell Distortions
- Data Requirements
- Assessment Techniques and Acceptance Criteria (Levels 1-3)
- Remaining Life Assessment and Remediation
- Worked example
- - Assessment of Crack-Like Flaws
- Overview o