Vibha Zaman, P.E.: About the Author
Senior Consultant, Asset Optimization Consultants
Vibha Zaman is a Senior Consultant at Asset Optimization Consultants and has over 20 years of diverse experience include corrosion consulting for assets in upstream and downstream sectors and pipeline integrity management for offshore and onshore pipeline systems and facilities. She has spent the last 14 years in Asset Management Consulting supporting a wide array of onshore and offshore PIMS projects as well as corrosion studies for refining, oil sands, gas processing, and petrochemical sectors. She is a licensed Professional Engineer and holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin.
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Published Articles
A well-implemented and managed reliability program incorporating RBI, DMR, and IOWs can identify potential damage mechanisms, optimize maintenance and inspection activities, reduce risks, and improve the governance in managing Ethane Crackers.
This article discusses the use of the RBI methodology supplemented by a well-designed IOW program to assess and manage aging in fixed equipment and piping in hydrogen generation units.
Verifying pipeline integrity is particularly challenging due to the difficulty of pipeline access, as well as the limitations in available technology to perform subsea wall thickness inspections. These challenges require action rather than reaction.
