Training Certificate

Prolific Consultants FZE Certificate of Course Completion will be issued to all attendees.

Course Introduction

The aim of this course is to provide the participants with a complete and up-to-date overview of all facets of pressure vessels from concept, design, commissioning and operation, maintenance, periodic inspection, defect evaluation and repair. Upon the successful completion of this course, the participant should have a solid understanding of the design code requirements, operational guidelines to prevent damage, maintenance programs, inspection requirements and recommendations, types of defects and degradation, evaluation of defects and degradation, re-rating, repairs and documentation files.  Further, this course will provide Mechanical, Process and Inspection engineers as well as middle management with the framework to maximize their return on investment with a structured pressure vessel integrity program focusing upon safe and economical practices.

Course Objective

• To provide skills, knowledge and understanding of the pressure vessel life cycle from concept, design, fabrication, operational life, inspection and repair.
• Familiarize participants to the tools and techniques for implementing an economical pressure vessel integrity program
• Operational practices to optimize vessel service life
• Periodic maintenance and inspection programs
• Extend the life of existing pressure vessels
• Minimize unscheduled vessel shut downs and unnecessary repairs
• Vessel re-rating and de-rating
• Present case history examples regarding pressure vessel design, fabrication problems, operational upsets, defects and repairs.

Suitable For

Mechanical, Process, Plant and Inspection engineers as well as middle management, Supervisors, Superintendents

Training Methodology

A highly interactive combination of lecture and discussion sessions will be managed to maximize the amount and quality of information, knowledge and experience transfer. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions, and motivate everybody finding the right answers. The attendants will also be encouraged to raise more of their own questions and to share developing the right answers using their own analysis and experience.

All presentations are made in excellent colorful power point. Very useful Course Materials will be given.

• 30% Lectures
• 30% Workshops and work presentation
• 20% Group Work & Practical Exercises
• 20% Videos & General Discussions

Course Content

• Life cycle of a pressure vessel, concept to retirement
• Economic considerations, corrosion, life expectancy, materials
• Operations considerations, isolation, redundancy, process dependency
• Maintenance considerations, periodic inspection, access, internals, repairs
• Failure modes and mechanisms
• ASME / API Code Roadmap
• Design Codes, similarities and differences
• Welds and weld strength
• Horizontal Vessel Design considerations
• External Pressure Design
• Flanged joint problems, causes and solutions
• Fabrication methods and concerns
• Required / recommended inspection and testing
• Heat Exchangers, design, types, TEMA
• API-510, Vessel Inspection Code overview
• Inspector duties
• Fitness For Service Overview
• ASME Section IX, Nuclear and BS-7910 FFS methods
• Finite Element Analysis, theory,
• FEA examples (stress, thermal, creep, yielding)