API 580/581/ASME PCC-3: Risk-based Inspection Program, Technology and Planning Methods

What are the Goals?

By the end of this Risk-based Inspection Program, Technology and Planning Methods training course, participants will learn to:

• Grasp the RBI process, as applied on static pressurized equipment, piping & storage tanks
• Enhance process safety and potentially reduce or eliminate unit / system downtimes
• Verify and implement most appropriate methods for damage identification & monitoring
• Optimize inspection plan compared with traditional inspection practices
• Increase equipment reliability by proper damage management, hence increasing plant operation efficiency and achieving most favorable lifecycle cost of the assets
• Implement state-of-the-art approach towards the asset management

Who is this Training Course for?

This API 580/581/ASME PCC-3 training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals working in the maintenance, operation and design of the petrochemical and other process industries:

• Asset managers
• Inspectors and NDT specialists
• Maintenance Engineers
• Plant Engineers
• Corrosion and material specialists

Daily Agenda

Day One: Introduction to RBI process, API RP 580

• Introduction and Asset Integrity and RBI
• Purpose/general aspects of RBI; RBI benefits & limitations
• Scope, definitions, terms and abbreviations
• Risk Assessment concepts
• Introduction to Risk-Based Inspection
• Planning the RBI Program
• Roles, Responsibilities, Training, and Qualifications
• Data and Information Collection for RBI Assessment
• Damage Mechanism Review
• Workshop: damage mechanisms identification using screening tables

Day Two: Introduction to RBI process, API RP 580, continued

• Accessing probability of failure
• Accessing consequences of failure
• Risk determination, assessment and management
• Risk management with inspection activities
• Other Risk Management Methods
• Updating the RBI Assessment
• RBI Documentation and record keeping
• Workshop: Qualitative RBI assessment for sample equipment
• Practical session: Certification-like quiz

Day Three: Introduction to API 581 (RBI) Part 1 - Inspection Planning Methodology & Probabilities of failure

• API RP 581 Scope and definitions,
• Probability of Failure & Consequence of Failure
• Risk analysis and inspection planning
• Probability of failure methodology
• Management system factor
• Thinning damage factor and inspection effectiveness
• Piping mechanical fatigue damage factor and inspection effectiveness
• Workshop examples Probability of Failure Considerations – Thinning & Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC)

Day Four: Consequence of Failure Methodology

• Consequence of failure types
• Consequence of failure methodology
• Consequence of failure calculation levels
• Consequence Level 1 calculation process and results summation
• Consequences Level 2 calculation process, fluid properties
• Consequences Level 2 – calculation of different release outcomes, QRA methods
• Component-specific calculations (tank bottoms)
• Workshop: simple level 1 consequences calculation

Day Five: Special Equipment Calculations

• RBI on Pressure relief devices
• Workshop – pressure relief device RBI
• RBI on Atmospheric storage tanks
• RBI on Heat exchanger tube bundles
• Workshop - Tube Bundles RBI
• Furnace tube probability of failure calculation
• Wrap up and summary
• Optional team Quiz API 580 exam