• To provide clear understanding of the key aspects of Risk Based Inspection, its advantages and limitations

• To provide a clear understanding of how it is linked to reliability-centered maintenance.

• Understand how fitness-for-service assessment affects the Risk

• To show you how to develop a successful RBI program at your facility

• Provide you with the practical and effective methods you need to perform practical likelihood and consequence analysis.

• Show you how to develop optimum Inspection intervals for individual equipment based on the assessment of the active degradation mechanisms.

This Pioneers Risk Based Strategies for Inspection & Maintenance (RBI & RBM) training course combines presentation of the key principles, methods, and best practices and enforces the learnings with case studies and Question & Answer workshops to maximize the benefits to the participants. The comprehensive course notes and presentation material will provide valuable reference.

ORGANISATIONAL IMPACT

• Identification and assessment of active degradation mechanisms
• Implementation of a Risk Based Inspection program would result in
• significant measurable improvements and improved plant integrity. Fewer failures
• Optimization of inspection and maintenance plans and resources
• Reduction in operating costs

PERSONAL IMPACT

• Delegates will acquire the knowledge necessary to apply the risk-based methodology.

• Delegates will acquire the skills necessary to apply the risk-based methodology.
• Enhance competence in RBI. · Enhance performance level.
• Contribute additional value to the organization.

DAY 1

Course Objectives and Overview

Significance of Inspection in Plant Integrity and Maintenance Costs o The Real Function of Inspection

o Inspection Key Performance Indicators

Common Inspection Strategies and Their Limitations Risk-Based Decision-Making Fundamentals and Tools

o Risk Assessment – Probability of failure, consequences of failure

o Risk Management – Avoidance, Mitigation o Risk Communication

Understanding and Managing Risk o Principles Risk Assessment

o Risk Assessment Elements

o Qualitative, Semi-quantitative, and Quantitative Assessment ·           

Workshop 1- Illustrative Example of Risk Assessment

DAY 2

▪Risk Based Inspection (RBI)

▪ Definitions

▪ Evolution

▪ Key Elements of RBI

▪ Reasons for implementing RBI

▪ Benefits and Limitations of using RBI

▪ RBI as a part of plant integrity management

▪ Economic Benefits

▪ API Risk-Based Inspection                     

Methodology

▪ API RP 580

▪ API BRD 581 – Various levels of RBI Analyses

▪ Impact of RBI on Related API Codes, Standards, and Recommended Practices

▪ API 510, 570 and 650

▪ API 579 Fitness-For-Purpose

▪ API Risk Based Inspection Software

▪ Workshop 2 – Q&A on API RBI Methodology

DAY 3

Overview of API 571 – Recognition of Conditions Causing Deterioration of Failure

• Overview of over 60 damage mechanisms found in refineries
• Detailed discussion of some common damage mechanisms: Internal and external corrosion, brittle fracture, fatigue, SCC, HIC, internal and external corrosion
• Identification of Deterioration Mechanisms & Failure Modes
• Active damage mechanisms in critical plant equipment

• Inactive or “unlikely” mechanisms • Identification for assessment
• Impact of simultaneous mechanisms
• Selection of Suitable Materials for Specific Deterioration Mechanisms
• Integrated Asset Management

• Linking Risk Assessment, RBI, and RCM • Managing Risk Using RBI

Workshop 3 – Case studies involving a few equipment damage and failures, and learnings.

DAY 4

Development of Inspection Plan (Based on RBI Risk Ranking)

·          Inspection Planning Guidance

• Need for Some Speculative / Exploratory Inspection · RBI Implementation

o Essentials for Establishing a Successful RBI Program

o The RBI Team – Recommended Structure and Mandate

• Developing Equipment and Piping Systems / Circuits Inventory · Inspection History, Interpretation

o Equipment Criticality Rating · Equipment Data Base

o Shared Database by RBI and RCM o Importance of Data Quality

o Computerized Maintenance Management Systems

• Workshop 4 – Case Study: Risk-based categorization of equipment and failure modes 

DAY 5

• Inspection Interval Optimization Based on Assessed Risk · Evaluation of Inspection Results

o Data Quality

o Corrosion Rate Calculations o Remaining Life Calculations

• Fitness-For-Service Assessments
• Estimation of Consequences of Failures
• Workshop 5 – Case Study – Assessment of defects in critical equipment