Piping and Pipeline Integrity Management

Objectives

1. The Participant will gain an in-depth knowledge of pipe and fitting material specifications, manufacturing, fabrication process and their influence on mechanical properties of strength and toughness, to help in material selection and failure analysis.
2. The participant will understand the technical background to the design formulas, and their application to the design of piping systems and pipelines. The course addresses rules of good practice in layout of piping systems for reliable operation.
3. The participant will gain a practical understanding of piping and pipeline mode of failure, corrosion mechanisms, how to recognize them, classify them and resolve them.
4. The participant will learn risk assessment for piping & pipeline i.e. probability of failure and their consequences if failures occur.

Course Outline

• 1. Introduction
  • – History of Pipeline Technology
  • – ASME Codes and Standards
  • – API Standards
  • – NACA, MSS-SP, PFI Standards
  • – Fundamentals of Maintenance and Integrity
• 2. Materials Selection
  • – API 5L and ASTM Specifications
  • – Practical Aspects of Metallurgical Properties
  • – Chemistry and Material Test Reports
  • Linepipe manufacturing
  • Fabrication and Fittings specification
  • Mechanical Properties: Strength and Toughness
  • Material selection technique
• 3. Welding
  • – Overview of Pipe and Pipeline Welding Practice
  • – API 1104 and ASME IX Requirement
  • – Welding In-service: Challenge and Solutions
• 4. Strength Integrity for Sustained Loads
  • – Operating and Design Pressure
  • – How to Establish the System Design Pressure
  • – Introduction to Pressure Relief Valves
  • – Pipe and Pipeline Sizing Formula with Applications
  • – Rules of Good Practice in layout
  • – Pump and Compressor Piping
  • – How to Support a piping System
  • – Review of Support Types and their Application
  • – Lesson learned from Poor Support Practices
  • – Temperature Effects
  • – Flexibility Layout Analysis
  • – Temperature Transients and Fatigue Damage
  • – Vibration In Service
  • – Mechanical and Hydraulic Induced Vibration in Piping
  • – How to Measure Analyze Resolve Vibration
• 5. Strength Integrity for Occasional Loads
  • – Pressure Transients
  • – Recognizing and Solving Liquid Hammer
  • – Pump Station Transients
  • – Study of Pipeline Failures Due to Transient
  • – Two-Phase Liquid -Vapor Transients
  • – Two-Phase Liquid-Gas Transients
  • – Gas Discharge Transients
  • – Buried Pipe
  • – Soil Loads
  • – Surface Loads
  • – Expansion of Buried Pipe
  • – Soil settlement
  • – n-service Movement of Pipeline
  • – Pipeline Failures
  • – Study Case Histories
  • – Understanding Why Failures Occur and How to Avoid Them
• 6. Corrosion Assessment and Protection
  • – Introduction to Practical Corrosion
  • – Classification of Corrosion Mechanisms
  • – General Wall Thinning
  • – Local Corrosion: Galvanic Effects
  • – Crevice Corrosion
  • – Pitting Corrosion
  • – Environmental Effects
  • – Hydrogen and H2S Effects
  • – Microbiological Corrosion
  • – Corrosion Protection
  • – Cathodic Protection Overview
• 7. Corrosion Assessment and Protection
  • – Introduction to Practical Corrosion
  • – Classification of Corrosion Mechanisms
  • – General Wall Thinning
  • – Local Corrosion: Galvanic Effects
  • – Crevice Corrosion
  • – Pitting Corrosion
  • – Environmental Effects
  • – Hydrogen and H2S Effects
  • – Microbiological Corrosion
  • – Corrosion Protection
  • – Cathodic Protection
• 8. Risk Assessment Overview
  • – Introduction to risk assessment
  • – Risk Criteria
  • – Probability of failure
  • – Third party damage
  • – Corrosion aspects
  • – Design aspects
  • – Incorrect operation
  • – Consequence of failure
  • – Product hazard
  • – Spill assessment
  • – Dispersion calculation
  • – Receptors
  • – Risk Representation
• 9 .Maintenance & Repair
  • – Flange and Mechanical Joints
  • – Overview of Different Types of Flanges and Application
  • – Causes of Flange Leaks and How to Resolve
  • – Case Study of Flange Failure
  • – Assembly of Flange Joints and Leak Tightness
  • – Pressure and Leak Testing
  • – The Difference Between Leak Testing and Pressure Testing
  • – Review of Difference Testing Techniques
  • – The Purpose of Hydro test
  • – How to Conduct a Hydro test
  • – Pipeline and Piping Systems Testing
  • – Pneumatic Testing
  • – Repair Techniques
  • – The New ASME Repair Standards
  • – The Fundamentals of Repair package
  • – Pipe and Component Replacement
  • – Grinding and welding
  • – Welded Sleeve: Type A and B