Fitness-For-Service, Remaining Life Assessment & Repair of Pressure Equipment & Piping

Daily Agenda

Day One: 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

Day Two: Inspection and Fitness-For-Service

• 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

Day Three: 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
  

Day Four: 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
  

Day Five: 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
• Assessment techniques
• Acceptance criteria
• Worked examples
• Creep, Fire and Mechanical Damage
• Assessment of Components Operating in the Creep Range
• Data requirements
• Assessment techniques
• Acceptance criteria
• Worked example
• Assessment of Fire Damage
• Data requirements
• Assessment techniques
• Acceptance criteria
• Case study
• Assessment of Dents, Gouges, and Dent-Gouge Combinations
• Data requirements
• Assessment techniques
• Acceptance criteria
• Worked example
• Assessment of Laminations
• Data requirements
• Assessment techniques
• Acceptance criteria
• Worked example Repair methodologies
• Repair Techniques
  • New Developments in Repair Standards 
  • Permanent and Temporary Repairs
  • Overview of All Repair Techniques 
  • Selection of the Right Repair
  • Contents and Structure of the Repair Plan
  • Welding on In-Service Equipment
  • Welded Repairs
  • Non-Welded Repairs