Pressure Equipment and Piping: Fitness-for-Service, Remaining Life Assessment and Repair (API-579/ASME FFS-1 and PCC-2 Standards)
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Pressure Equipment and Piping: Fitness-for-Service, Remaining Life Assessment and Repair (API-579/ASME FFS-1 and PCC-2 Standards) Course
Introduction:
The objective of this course is to provide clear explanations of the concepts and technologies related to Fitness-for-Service (FFS). Participants will receive comprehensive training on the application of API 579-1/ASME FFS-1, which is a jointly published standard by the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME). This standard covers a broad spectrum of flaw types and damage mechanisms.
Course Objectives:
You will learn:
- Fundamental principles of fitness-for-service, their practical application through presentations, worked examples, case studies, and a step-by-step evaluation process for each type of degradation mechanism
- Fundamental principles of component integrity, application of the ASME code rules, material properties of strength and toughness, and the introduction to stress and fracture mechanics
- A review of degradation mechanisms and the application of API 579 to 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, HIC and SOHIC, and fire damage.
Who Should Attend?
This designed course for:-
- Integrity assessment engineers
- Operations engineers
- Maintenance engineers
- Maintenance supervisors
- Facility integrity supervisors
- Corrosion engineers
- Corrosion specialists
- Site inspection engineers
- Piping engineers
- Mechanical engineers
- Plant managers
- Plant engineers
- Project engineers
- Engineers who are responsible for maintaining the integrity of process plant equipment and piping
Course Outlines:
Fitness-For-Service Technology
- 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
- FFS Assessment Methodology and Procedure
- Structure of the Standard - Road map for Parts 3 through 13 of the FFS Standard
- The FFS eight-step procedure
- Examples of the major parts
Inspection and Fitness-For-Service
- The real function of inspection
- Inspection reliability and effectiveness
- Nondestructive testing techniques - PT, VT, MT, ET, UT, RT, AE
- Fundamentals of Design and Construction of Pressure Vessels, Storage Tanks, and Piping
- Annex A - Thickness, MAWP and stress equations for a FFS assessment
- Fitness-for-Service and Remaining Life (cont’d) Brittle Fracture and Cryogenic Service
- Assessment of General Wall Thinning
- Assessment of Local Thin Areas and B31G for Pipelines
- Assessment of Pitting Corrosion
- Fabrication Defects and in-Service Degradation of Pressure Equipment and Piping
- Annex G - Damage Mechanisms
FFS Assessment of Brittle Fracture and Metal Loss
- Assessment of Existing Equipment for Brittle Fracture
- Overview of brittle fracture
- Data requirements
- Assessment techniques
- Acceptance criteria
- Worked examples
- Overview of Corrosion, Erosion and Pitting
- Assessment of General Metal Loss
- Data requirements
- Assessment techniques
- Acceptance criteria
- Worked examples
- Assessment of Local Metal Loss
- Data requirements
- Assessment techniques
- Acceptance criteria
- Worked examples Assessment techniques laminations-Distortion-cracks
Assessment of Pitting Corrosion
- Data requirements
- Assessment techniques
- Acceptance criteria
- Worked example
- Fitness For Service Assessment of Corroded Pipelines
- ASME B31G
- RSTRENG
- KAPA
- Worked Example - Blisters, Local and Mechanical Damage
- Assessment of Hydrogen Blisters and Hydrogen Damage Associated With HIC and SOHIC
- Data requirements
- Assessment techniques
- Acceptance criteria
- Worked examples Assessment techniques creep-fire damage-fatigue
Assessment of Weld Misalignment and Shell Distortions
- Data requirements
- Assessment techniques
- Acceptance criteria
- Worked example
- Introduction to Fracture Mechanics
- Assessment of Crack-Like Flaws
- Data requirements