API 579 Fitness for Service Evaluation

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
19 Oct 2025 Manama, Bahrain $ 4,500 Register

API 579 Fitness for Service Evaluation

Introduction

During course, participants will learn how to apply the rules of API 579/ASME FFS "Fitness-for-Service" Standard to evaluate the integrity and remaining life of tanks, pressure vessels, piping systems and pipelines.  Topics covered include the principles of fitness-for-service, practical application through case histories, a step-by-step evaluation process for each type of degradation mechanism, and a review of the application of API 579/ASME FFS to brittle fracture, general metal loss, local wall thinning, pitting, blisters, mechanical defects (dents, misalignment, and distortion), crack-like flaws (stress corrosion cracking, weld flaws, crack-like defects), fatigue, and fire damage.

Objectives

    • Identify the latest techniques to determine the fitness-for-service of operating tanks, vessels, piping systems and pipelines 
    • Explain the practical application of the ASME and API rules for the structural integrity of static equipment and pipelines, and their use to assess the remaining life
    • Explain how to apply the step-by-step 3-level approach of API 579/ASME FFS to evaluate inspection results and recognize potential failure modes
    • Describe how to apply the latest developments in defect assessment techniques

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations.

Who Should Attend?

  • Inspection Engineer
  • Reliability Engineer
  • Maintenance Engineer
  • Assistant Engineer Inspection

Course Outline

Day 1

  • Module 1 - Introduction
  • Module 2 - Fitness for Service Assessment Procedure
  • Module 3 - Assessment of Brittle Fracture
  • Module 4 - Assessment of General Metal Loss

 Day 2

  • Module 5 - Assessment of Local Thin Areas
  • Module 6 - Assessment of Pitting Corrosion
  • Module 7 - Assessment of Hydrogen Blisters and Hydrogen Damage Associated with HIC and SOHIC

Day 3

  • Module 8 - Assessment of Weld Misalignments and Shell Distortions
  • Module 9 - Assessment of Crack-Like Flaws
  • Module 10 - Assessment of Components Operating in the Creep Range

Day 4

  • Module 11 - Assessment of Fire Damage
  • Module 12 - Assessment of Dents, Gouges, and Dent-Gouge Combinations

Day 5

  • Module 13 - Assessment of Laminations
  • Final Review
  • Overview and wrap-up

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