Navigating Temporary Repairs: Risks and Compliance Essentials Post Construction Codes (PCCs) API 510/570/653 define these as temporary repairs but a feature of ASME PCC-2 is that it provides technical details and leaves the user to decide themselves. What is temporary? There’s no agreed definition of temporary. The nearest is from API codes as ‘to the next maintenance/replacement opportunity’. Temporary …
HTHA – A serious threat to pressure equipment integrity. Covered extensively in our API 571 Training Course, we’re often asked about HTHA. When carbon steel is used to manufacture pressure equipment for hydrogen-containing (gaseous or liquid, even when it is a constituent portion of a fluid) service, the service conditions should be limited to avoid High-Temperature Hydrogen Attack (HTHA). …
Fitness For Service – Local Metal Loss Level 1 Assessment. Part 3 of our 3 part series takes a look at the assessment of local metal loss. As we discussed in Part 1, there is strictly no definition of what constitutes local metal loss compared to general, so the accepted rule of thumb is to start with a Part 4 …
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The phone rings, my taxi is here. I kiss my family goodbye. My 4 year old runs off to play with something as my impending absence is instantly forgotten about. Unicorns are obviously much more interesting. My wife with a 7-month-old in her arms wishes me a safe journey before closing the door and rushing off to see what that …
What are the PSSRs and what do they cover? The Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000 (PSSR) cover the safe design and use of pressure systems with the aim to prevent serious injury from the hazard of stored energy (pressure) as a result of the failure of a pressure system or one of its component parts. The regulations are …
This article ‘Back to basics – Material Properties’ covers the essential properties when considering asset integrity. Material science in itself is a huge subject, with endless reference books and academic courses that cover the subject. Only a high-level understanding will be provided in this article. Stakeholders should be concerned with ensuring pressure equipment is safe to operate and the …
Pressure Relief Valves – Pressure equipment requires protection from over pressurisation. A common way to protect vessels is the installation of a pressure relief valve. A pressure relief device is actuated by inlet static pressure and designed to open during an emergency or abnormal conditions to prevent a rise of internal fluid pressure above the specified design value. This device …
Calculating Branch Connections: ASME B31.3 Para. 304.3.2 – Whenever a branch is added to the main pipe run (header) an opening is created by the removal of a predetermined amount of metal. We use Branch Connections: ASME B31.3 Para. 304.3.2 to consider the design. The header pipe is weakened as the metal removed is no longer there to resist the …
What is stress? Introduction In the most simplistic term, stress is simply a force divided by area. The most common unit we see in pressure equipment codes and standards is pounds per square inch (psi) for those that like imperial (and let’s face it, not many do). Or if you like to use SI units (metric) then we will often …