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

What are the Goals?

The participants will learn to apply the rules of the API/ASME 579 standard "Fitness-for-Service" to recognize degradation mechanisms, evaluate the integrity and remaining life of pressure vessels, tanks, piping systems and pipelines, make cost effective run-or-repair decisions, and select the appropriate repair options. In this training course 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 is this Training Course for?

This training course provides a wide understanding and deeper appreciation of fitness-for service, remaining life assessment and repair of pressure equipment and piping 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

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