Fernando Vicente: About the Author
Asset Integrity and Reliability Consultant, ABB
Mr. Vicente graduated from the Universidad Tecnologica Nacional Facultad Regional General Pacheco (Buenos Aires, Argentina) with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and holds a Post graduate in Reliability Engineering from the Universidad Austral (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He holds API 510, 570,580, CMRP and IAM certifications and has been a Consulting Engineer in Asset Integrity and Reliability with ABB for 12 years. Mr. Vicente's project experience includes; Weibull analysis for asset and plant optimization, reliability culture implementation for big organisations, reliability assessment, fitness for service assessments, advanced finite element analysis, failure analysis, RCM and RBI implementation for the Oil & Gas industries.
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Published Articles
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March/April 2012 Inspectioneering Journal
Air-cooled heat exchangers (AC-HEs) are used extensively throughout the oil and gas industry, from upstream production to refineries and petrochemical plants, under high pressure and high temperature conditions, as well as corrosive fluids and environments. Some defects and discontinuities can be introduced during the heat exchanger manufacturing process and are not necessarily found as part of QA/QC inspections.