2019 European API RBI User Group Week

The Equity Engineering Group, September 23, 2019

Host: The Equity Engineering Group
Location: Genoa, Italy

Starts: September 23, 2019
Ends: September 27, 2019

API RP 580 - Risk Based Inspection (RBI)

API RP 580, Risk-Based Inspection, is a recommended practice developed and published by the American Petroleum Institute (API)...
API RP 581 - Risk Based Inspection Technology

API RP 581, Risk-Based Inspection Technology, is a recommended practice developed and published by the American Petroleum Institute
Brittle Fracture

Brittle Fracture is the sudden, very rapid cracking of equipment under stress where the material exhibited little or no evidence of ductility or plastic degradation before the fracture occurs. Unlike most other tensile failures, where the material plastically strains...
Corrosion Fatigue

Corrosion Fatigue is a specific type of fatigue failure mechanism that is caused by a combination of cyclic stress and a corrosive...
Damage Mechanisms

Damage Mechanism is a general term used to describe mechanical or chemical processes that result in equipment damage or material degradation. These can range from corrosion, to...
Fatigue (Material)

Fatigue is a failure mechanism that involves the cracking of materials and structural components due to cyclic (or fluctuating) stress. While applied stresses may be tensile, compressive or torsional, crack...
Fitness For Service (FFS)

Fitness for Service (FFS) is a best practice and standard used by the oil & gas and chemical process industries for in-service equipment to determine its fitness for continued service. FFS serves as a rational basis for defining flaw acceptance limits and allows engineers to...
High Temperature Hydrogen Attack (HTHA)

High Temperature Hydrogen Attack (HTHA) is an insidious condition that can occur in process equipment exposed to hydrogen at elevated temperatures (at least 400F or 204C), under dry conditions, when...
High-Temperature Creep

Creep damage is a time-dependent phenomenon characterized by gradual, continuous deformation, affecting all metals and alloys, under the combined action of temperature and stress. In general, creep damage accumulation and the propensity for...
Nondestructive Testing (NDT)

Nondestructive Testing (NDT) consists of a variety of non-invasive inspection techniques used to evaluate material properties, components, or entire process units. The techniques can also be utilized to detect, characterize, or measure the...
Post Weld Heat Treatment (PWHT)

Welding is an essential part of operating and maintaining assets in the petroleum (upstream, midstream, downstream) and chemical processing industries. While it has many useful applications, the welding process can inadvertently...
Risk-Based Inspection (RBI)

Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) is an analysis methodology and process that, as opposed to condition-based inspection, requires qualitative or quantitative assessment of the probability of failure (PoF) and the consequence of failure (CoF) associated with each equipment item, piping...

Event Overview

The full week program has been separated into three sessions: Risk-based Inspection Fundamentals, API RBI Software User Group Meeting and an Advanced Topics symposium. Risk-Based Inspection Fundamentals will cover basic topics for issues related to launching or enhancing a Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) program. The API RBI Software User Group meeting is an interactive two-day meeting to present and share knowledge regarding risk-based inspection methodology advances, implementation and experiences. The advanced topics session will cover HTHA, current NDE technology, Fitness-for- Service, other challenging industry topics.

Key Topics

RBI
API RBI Software
API RP 581
EN16991
FFS
HTHA
NDE Technology

Agenda

September 23, 2019 – Risk-Based Inspection Fundamentals

Who should attend?

Those who are new to RBI
Those who are evaluating whether RBI would be benefical at their facility

September 24-25, 2019 – API RBI User Group Meeting

Who should attend?

API RBI software users, at all levels

September 26-27, 2019 – Advanced Topics Symposium

Who should attend?

Engineers and inspectors interested in challenging industry problems

What will be covered at the Advanced Topics Symposium?

Inspection for FFS and Proactive FFS for Inspection Optimization
Using FFS and Inspection to manage HTHA
Effect of PWHT on Equipment Reliability
Leveraging Advanced Analysis to Extend Equipment Life and Improve New Designs
Evaluating Brittle Fracture, Fatigue, and Flaw Growth in Pressure Equipment
Techniques for simulating High Temperature Creep Damage Evolution at Welds

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