Engineering and Maintenance
Pipeline FFS and Integrity (ASME B31 and API 579 Standard)
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Pipeline FFS and Integrity (ASME B31 and API 579 Standard) Course
Introduction:
A collaborative update of each society's version of Fitness for Service was produced in June 2007 by API and ASME. The new standard is currently known as ASME FFS-1 2007 or API 579-1/ASME. In order to identify degradation mechanisms, assess the integrity and remaining life of tanks, pressure vessels, piping systems, and pipelines, make cost-effective run-or-repair decisions, and choose the best repair options, the participant will learn how to apply the guidelines of the API/ASME 579 standard "Fitness-for-Service".
Course Objectives:
- Latest techniques to determine the fitness-for-service of operating tanks, vessels, piping systems and pipelines; and make cost-effective run-or-repair 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 tanks, vessels 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?
- Maintenance and production supervisors and engineers who require an understanding of the Fitness-For-Service standard
- Design and system engineers
- Inspectors, project and maintenance engineers who are personally responsible for the reliable design, operation, maintenance and repair of equipment, systems, tanks, vessels, piping and pipelines
Course Outlines:
Foundations of Fitness-For-Service Assessment
- Introduction
- Overview of the American Petroleum Institute (API) codes and standards
- Overview of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers codes and standards with historical background
- 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
- The FFS Assessment
- Structure if the Standard
- The FFS procedure
- Examples of the major parts
Mechanical Integrity and Fitness for Service
- ANNEX A - Thickness, MAWP & Stress equations for a FFS Assessment
- Calculation of time, MAWP & Membrane Stress
- Pressure Vessel & End Caps
- Piping components & Boiler Tubes
- NDE techniques
- PT, VT, MT, ET, UT, RT
- Brittle Fracture
- Data Requirements
- Assessment Techniques
- Acceptance Criteria
Pitting and Corrosion
- General Metal Loss
- Data Requirements
- Assessment Techniques
- Acceptance Criteria
- Worked example
- Local Metal Loss
- Data Requirements
- Assessment Techniques
- Acceptance Criteria
- Worked example
- Pitting Corrosion
- Data Requirements
- Assessment Techniques
- Acceptance Criteria
- Worked example
Blisters and Local Damage
- Hydrogen Blisters, HIC & SOHIC
- Data Requirements
- Assessment Techniques
- Acceptance Criteria
- Weld Misalignment & Shell Distortions
- Data Requirements
- Assessment Techniques
- Acceptance Criteria
- Worked example
- Cracks & Crack-Like Flaws
- Elements of Restring
- Data Requirements
- Assessment Techniques
- Acceptance Criteria
- Worked example
Creep and Fire
- Creep
- Data Requirements
- Assessment Techniques
- Acceptance Criteria
- Worked example
- Fire Damage
- Data Requirements