PIPELINE & PIPING Inspection, Maintenance and Repair

Course Introduction

This intensive training course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of piping design, inspection and testing. Participants will be introduced to the technical basis of the ASME and API integrity rules, and their application to case studies and exercises.

The participants will be able to recognize causes of degradation in-service, whether mechanically induced (pressure, vibration, fatigue, pressure transients, external damage) or due to corrosion (wall thinning, pitting, cracking), and apply integrity analysis techniques to make run-or-repair decisions.

The participants will become knowledgeable in the technical basis and application of ASME B31.3, B31.4 and B31.8 piping codes, and API 579 Fitness-for Service and Flaw Evaluation.

The participants will review inspection techniques, from the most common (PT, MT, UT, RT, MFL pigs) to most recent (AE, PED, UT pigs and multi pigs), and the implementation of integrity management programs, periodic inspections and evaluation of results.

During this interactive course, participants will review the various repair techniques, their advantages and shortcomings, and the logic to be followed in making repair decisions and selecting the applicable repair.

Objectives

By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

• Apply systematic techniques on pipeline and piping engineering in accordance with the correct ASME and API codes and standards
• Discuss the fundamentals of pipes and pipeline design, maintenance, integrity and rehabilitation
• Evaluate the fitness for service including wall thinning, remaining life, general and local corrosion, analysis of dents and cracks in piping and pipelines
• Classify the causes of vibration in service as well as measure, analyze and resolve vibration
• Define pressure transients and enumerate its four classes such as pump station transients, two- phase liquid-vapor transients, two phase liquid-gas transients and gas discharge transients
• Analyze weld properties, heat treatment, liquid penetrant and ultrasonic testing as well as identify the different types of flanges, gaskets, bolt selection, tube fittings and different kinds of bending
• Carryout pressure and leak testing, prevent mechanism degradation due to corrosion and employ new ASME repair standards
• Demonstrate different repairing techniques of grinding, welding, flush patch, mechanical clamp and pipe coating for the expansion of buried pipes

Training Methodology

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours:-

• 30% Lectures, Concepts, Role Play
• 70%  Workshops & Work Presentations, Techniques, Based on Case Studies & Practical Exercises, Software & General Discussions
• Pre and Post Test

Target Audience

This course is intended for engineers, maintenance staff and inspectors responsible for the integrity, maintenance and repair of pipelines and piping systems. Further, the course is essential for engineers in charge of pipeline or piping design. Project engineers, site/field engineers and   piping/pipeline project managers will be very interested in the pipeline/piping installation part of the course. Senior draftsmen and technical staff in the engineering department will benefit from the pipeline/piping design part of this state- of-the-art course. The fitness-for-service and integrity techniques are based on quantitative analysis.

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NAYEL Training Centre 

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