Course Description

Fitness-for-service assessment is a multi-disciplinary engineering approach that is used to determine if equipment is fit to continue operation for some desired future period. The equipment may contain flaws, have sustained damage, or have aged so that it cannot be evaluated by use of the original construction codes. API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 is a comprehensive consensus industry recommended practice that can be used to analyze, evaluate, and monitor equipment for continued operation. The main types of equipment covered by this standard are pressure vessels, piping, and tanks. This course is timely, emphasizing the practical application of a recently updated standard.
Completing this course will help participants understand and apply the API/ASME fitness-for-service standard in their daily work. The material presented in the course shows how the disciplines of stress analysis, materials engineering, and nondestructive inspection interact and apply to fitness-for-service assessment. The assessment methods apply to pressure vessels, piping, and tanks that are in-service. 

Course Goal

To enhance the participants’ knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to understand and apply the API/ASME fitness-for-service standard in their daily work.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, participant will be able to:

• Analyze, evaluate, and monitor pressure vessels, piping, and tanks for continued operation.
• Explain how to apply background information on fitness-for-service assessment.
• Identify the main parts of the API/ASME standard, as well as the annexes.
• Explain the practical application of the techniques incorporated in API 579-1/ASME FFS-1.

Who Can Benefit

Engineers and engineering management engaged in the operation, design, analysis, and maintenance of plant facilities.