API 579 / ASME FFS - 1 Fitness For Service
This three (3) day / four (4) day optional) course will provide an intensive study of
FFS techniques for pressure vessel, piping, atmospheric storage tank and other essential equipment in refineries
and oil sands plants constructed
to Codes to ASME VIII Division 1, Division 2, ASME B31.3 and standards such API 650, API 560 and related Codes and
Standards and the extension of the underlying engineering principles for application in
ASME FFS-1 / API 579-1 fitness for service evaluations.
Course Highlights
This course reviews the engineering mechanics / code criteria
underlying the "design by rules" and "design by analysis" approaches of Codes and standards and
how knowledge of these principles are used to safely extend the life of the equipment within the framework
of API 579 / ASME FFS - 1 .
It is essential that users have a strong foundation in the
construction Codes, trade standards and fitness for service techniques to execute, verify and validate assessments
developed by closed form analysis techniques or software derived calculation.
Application to demanding applications across a large sampling of refinery and oil sands equipment
are illustrated by case study.
This course is intended for individuals
who are responsible for the design, installation, inspection, repair & maintenance, or
fitness for service assessments of pressure, atmospheric storage and fired heater equipment in
the hydrocarbon processing (HPI), chemical & petrochemical (CPI), oil sands, heavy oil,
power generation (PGI) and pipeline transportation industries.
Detailed Course Description
Day I
1 Overview
· History
· Codes & Standards
· Overview, Codes & Standards
· Regulators & Regulations
2 ASME VIII Div 1
· Scope
· Design Rules
· Underlying Engineering Principles
3 ASME VIII Div 2
· Scope
· Design Rules
· Design by Analysis
· Underlying Engineering Principles
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Day 2
4 Piping, Pipelines & Tanks
· Design Rules
· Underlying Engineering Principles
5 Damage mechanisms
· Mechanical & Metallurgical
· General & Localized Corrosion
· Creep / Creep Rupture
· HIC / SOHIC / SCC
6 API 579 / ASME FFS-1
· Scope
· Damage Classes
· Level I Asssessments
· Level II Assessments
· Level III Assessments
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Day 3
7 Applying API 579 / ASME FFS-1
· Brittle Fracture
· GML & LML
· Vessel & Tank Shell Distortions
· HIC / SOHIC
· Crack-like Defects
· High / Low Cycle Fatigue
8 Industry Practice Inspection Standards
· API 510 Vessel In-Service Inspection
· API 570 Piping In-Service Inspection
· API 653 Tank Inspection
9 Closed-form and FEA Solution Methods
· solution techniques
· elastic vs elastic-plastic solutions
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Day 4 (Optional)
9 Case Studies & Class Challenge
· Case Study Challenge
- client provides current problem
to be worked by class
· Case Studies (alternate)
- prepared case study examples
· tank nozzle mods
· vessel distortions
· tank shell ring buckling
· remaining cyclic life
· brittle fracture / cracking
· designed to fail
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Course contact and registration information can be obtained from
John Aumuller P. Eng., Ph. D.
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