API 579 Fitness for Service Evaluation

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API 579 Fitness for Service Evaluation Course
Introduction:
Throughout the course, participants will acquire the necessary skills to effectively implement the guidelines outlined in the API 579/ASME FFS (Fitness-for-Service) Standard. This will enable them to assess the integrity and remaining operational life of tanks, pressure vessels, piping systems, and pipelines. The course covers a wide range of topics, including the fundamental principles of fitness-for-service, practical application through real-world case studies, a systematic evaluation process for each type of degradation mechanism, and an examination of API 579/ASME FFS application to various issues such as brittle fracture, general metal loss, local wall thinning, pitting, blisters, mechanical defects (dents, misalignment, and distortion), crack-like flaws (stress corrosion cracking, weld flaws, crack-like defects), fatigue, and fire damage. By the end of the course, participants will have a comprehensive understanding of fitness-for-service principles and be equipped with the knowledge and tools to effectively evaluate the integrity and remaining life of equipment and structures in accordance with API 579/ASME FFS guidelines.
Course Objectives:
- Identify the latest techniques to determine the fitness-for-service of operating tanks, vessels, piping systems and pipelines
- Explain 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
- Explain how to apply the step-by-step 3-level approach of API 579/ASME FFS to evaluate inspection results and recognize potential failure modes
- Describe how to apply the latest developments in defect assessment techniques
Who Should Attend?
- Inspection Engineer
- Reliability Engineer
- Maintenance Engineer
- Assistant Engineer Inspection
Course Outlines:
- Introduction
- Fitness for Service Assessment Procedure
- Assessment of Brittle Fracture
- Assessment of General Metal Loss
- Assessment of Local Thin Areas
- Assessment of Pitting Corrosion
- Assessment of Hydrogen Blisters and Hydrogen Damage Associated with HIC and SOHIC
- Assessment of Weld Misalignments and Shell Distortions
- Assessment of Crack-Like Flaws
- Assessment of Components Operating in the Creep Range
- Assessment of Fire Damage
- Assessment of Dents, Gouges, and Dent-Gouge Combinations
- Assessment of Laminations
- Final Review
- Overview and wrap-up