Fitness for Service: API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 2007

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INTRODUCTION

In June 2007 API and ASME produced a joint update of each society’s version of FITNESS FOR SERVICE.  The new standard is now called API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 2007.

The participant 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 tanks, pressure vessels, piping systems and pipelines, make cost effective run-or-repair decisions, and select the appropriate repair options. In this programme you will learn:

• Fundamental principles of fitness-for-service, their practical application through case histories, 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 & SOHIC and fire damage

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Maintenance and production supervisors and engineers who require an understanding of the Fitness-For-Service standard
• Design and system engineers
• Inspectors, project and maintenance engineers who are personally responsible for the reliable design, operation, maintenance and repair of equipment, systems, tanks, vessels, piping and pipelines

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

• Latest techniques to determine the fitness-for-service of operating tanks, vessels, piping systems and pipelines; and make cost-effective run-or-repair decisions based on the principles of API recommended practice 579 "Fitness-for-Service"
• Balanced approach between the fundamental technical principles of structural integrity, stress and fracture analysis, and their practical application to field conditions
• Provides the participants with the tools necessary to recognize and assess defects in tanks, vessels and piping
• Presents and applies the fundamentals rules of the ASME code to operating equipment and systems
• Introduces the participants to the practical application of the ASME and API rules for structural integrity of static equipment and pipelines, and their use to assess remaining life
• Applies API/ASME 579 "Fitness-for-Service" through practical examples to analyze degraded conditions and make cost-effective repair or use-as-is decisions
• Applies the step-by-step 3-level approach of API/ASME 579 to evaluate inspection results and recognize potential failure modes
• Technical basis for reliability-based (risk-based) evaluation of remaining life
• Latest developments in defect assessment techniques, starting with simple rules (level 1) and progressing to the more comprehensive evaluation techniques (level 3)
• Participants will be able to evaluate the structural integrity of corroded or damaged equipment, and assess their remaining life. Degradation mechanisms include: 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, and fire damage

PROGRAMME SUMMARY

Please note that this training session is highly computational.  Delegates will probable have a technical degree and should be conversant in calculations using a scientific calculator.  Delegates are advised to bring with them a hard copy of API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 2007 (although this is not essential).  A scientific calculator will be provided. 

Organizational Impact

• Take full advantage of the best industry practice of API/ASME 579 standard "Fitness-for-Service" to avoid unnecessary shutdowns, replacements or repairs
• Make cost-effective run-or-repair decisions for equipment in-service
• Plan, repair or replace projects, where necessary, based on the timely fitness-for-service prediction of remaining life of tanks, vessels, piping and pipelines

Personal Impact on each participant

DAY 1 - Foundations of Fitness-For-Service Assessment

• Introduction

  • Overview of the American Petroleum Institute (API) codes and standards
  • Overview of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers codes and standards with historical background
• Fitness For Service

  • 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
• The FFS Assessment

  • Structure if the Standard
  • The FFS procedure
  • Examples of the major PARTS

DAY 2 - Mechanical Integrity and Fitness for Service

• ANNEX A - Thickness, MAWP & Stress equations for a FFS Assessment

  • Calculation of tmin, MAWP & Membrane Stress
  • Pressure Vessel & End Caps
  • Piping components & Boiler Tubes
• NDE techniques

  • PT, VT, MT, ET, UT, RT
• PART 3 - Brittle Fracture

  • Data Requirements
  • Assessment Techniques
  • Acceptance Criteria

DAY 3 - Pitting and Corrosion

• PART 4 - General Metal Loss

  • Data Requirements

  • Assessment Techniques
  • Acceptance Criteria
  • Worked example
• PART 5 - Local Metal Loss

  • Data Requirements
  • Assessment Techniques
  • Acceptance Criteria
  • Worked example
• PART 6 - Pitting Corrosion

  • Data Requirements
  • Assessment Techniques
  • Acceptance Criteria
  • Worked example

DAY 4 - Blisters and Local Damage

• PART 7 - Hydrogen Blisters, HIC & SOHIC

  • Data Requirements
  • Assessment Techniques
  • Acceptance Criteria
• PART 8 - Weld Misalignment & Shell Distortions

  • Data Requirements
  • Assessment Techniques
  • Acceptance Criteria
  • Worked example
• PART 9 - Cracks & Crack-Like Flaws

  • Elements of RSTRENG
  • Data Requirements
  • Assessment Techniques
  • Acceptance Criteria
  • Worked example

DAY 5 - Creep and Fire

• PART 10 - Creep

  • Data Requirements

  • Assessment Techniques
  • Acceptance Criteria
  • Worked example
• PART 11 - Fire Damage

  • Data Requirements
  • Assessment Techniques
  • Acceptance Criteria
• Software review

  • Various software packages considered for FFS
• Overview and Wrap Up

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