INTRODUCTION:
Extreme service conditions, such as high constant or fluctuating loads, high temperatures, and different types of corrosion, may be applied to process equipment, structures, and pipe systems. This might result in structural integrity being lost, which would result in degeneration and damage. Such damage could cause catastrophic failures with possibly significant consequence losses of life and assets if it is not discovered and analyzed in a timely way.
Engineering systems must first be created through the selection of suitable building materials and in accordance with recognized design techniques and codes in order to ensure that they are capable of managing the service conditions in all foreseen operating scenarios.
Including safeguards and controls to prevent operating beyond the “design and operational envelope” and inspecting the process equipment with the aim of detecting any damage, characterizing it, and evaluating its influence on the equipment’s “Fitness For Service” are also crucial.
OBJECTIVES
By the end of this training seminar, participants will enhance their competencies in the following areas:
- Understanding and prediction of the degradation mechanisms that affect process equipment fitness for service and could result in significant potential failures
- The inter-dependence of design, operation, and maintenance for achieving mechanical integrity of mechanical equipment
- Have a sound knowledge of the various types mechanical failure mechanisms, including fracture mechanics, Fatigue, Creep and corrosion
- Understand the basic concepts of inspection and NDT methods and their effective application
- Be familiar with relevant failure mitigation principles
ORGANISATIONAL BENEFITS
- The company will achieve improved mechanical integrity and availability of the equipment and piping systems
- Damage to process equipment and risk due to failure will be significantly reduced
- Reduction in cases of uncontrolled changes through better understanding of the significance and interdependence of design, operation and maintenance on integrity of the process equipment
- Improved competencies will result in higher staff productivity and effectiveness
- Learnings from failure investigations would prevent recurrence of failures
- The company will achieve improvement in loss prevention and safety as well as in financial performance
PERSONAL BENEFITS
- Participants will gain sound and practical understanding of the major degradation mechanisms in various industries, how to predict them, how to assess their impact on process equipment over their operating life, and how to prevent and control these degradation and damage mechanisms using best industry practices
- Participants will extend their knowledge about prevention of damage to process equipment through the effective application of key design, operation, maintenance, and integrity fundamentals and practices
- Participants will extend their knowledge about inspection and testing strategies and methods and their effective application to achieve the highest probability of detection of damage and defects
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This training seminar is intended for:
- Staff who use or supervise activities requiring the selection, design / fabrication or use of mechanical equipment or component parts
- Engineers who seek a basic understanding of the practical aspects of evaluation of structural integrity
- Operation, Technical Service and Maintenance Professionals from various processing plants involved in everyday operation, control, inspection and maintenance of equipment
- Engineers and Consultants dealing with planning of new production plants, retrofitting plants and introducing new technologies
- Technical Professionals responsible for maintenance and repair of equipment
- Project and Asset Managers
Course Outline
DAY 1
Materials Testing and Failure
- Course Objectives and Overview
- Materials Testing – Tensile, Impact, Hardness
- Types of Failures – Ductile / Brittle Fracture, Temperature Effects
- Analytical Tools – Visual Examination of Fracture Surface, Fractography, Microscopy
- Industrial Failures – Examples of Failures and Causes
DAY 2
Damage and Interpretation of Failure I
- Stress Concentrating
- Fracture Mechanics
- Fatigue Failure
- High Temperature Creep
- Thermal Expansion and Deflections
- Worked Examples
DAY 3
Damage and Interpretation of Failure II
- Wear, Galing and Fretting
- Principles and Types of Corrosion Damage and Mitigation
- Vibration of Equipment and Piping
- Vibration Condition Monitoring
- Technical Problem Solving and Decision-making Approaches
DAY 4
Examples of Equipment Failure
- Pressure Vessels and Life Extension
- Heat Exchangers
- Pumps and Compressors
- Mechanical Seals and “O” Rign Failures
- Bearing Failure
- Pipes and Repair Techniques
DAY 5
Inspection, Testing and Condition Assessment
- NDT Methods and Techniques
- Inspection of Process Equipment
- Examples of Remaining Life Calculations
- Relevant Inspection Codes, API 570, etc.
- Course Summary and Wrap-up
Method of Instruction
Online
Course Duration:
5days
Type of Certificate Issued:
On a successful completion of this training, Participants will be issued
Certificate in Understanding and Preventing Process Equipment Failures
Testing, Analysis and Inspection
Participants can choose to have their certificate in any of the three options below:
- Digital Certificate (Downloadable (PDF)
- Physical Certificate with security marking shipped to your location with a price
- Framed Certificate with security markings shipped to your location with a price.
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