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Pressure Relief Devices: Design, Sizing, API 579-1/ASME FFS-1
Construction, Inspection and Maintenance Fitness-for-Service Evaluation

PD583 ASME STANDARDS COURSE PD616
This comprehensive review of the design, sizing and selection, Course participants will learn how to apply the rules of the API 579-1/
construction, installation, operation, inspection, repair and ASME FFS “Fitness-for-Service” Standard to evaluate the integrity
maintenance of pressure relieving devices details how to protect and remaining life of tanks, pressure vessels, piping systems and
pressurised equipment from exceeding the maximum allowable pipelines.
working pressure.
Topics covered include: the principles of fitness-for-service, practical
Each participant will receive a copy of the ASME codebook PTC 25 - application through case histories, a step-by-step evaluation
2014 Pressure Relief Devices and a copy of Pressure Relief Devices: process for each type of degradation mechanism, and a review of
ASME and API Code Simplified, by Dr. Mohammad A. Malek. the application of API 579-1/ASME FFS to brittle fracture, general
metal loss, local wall thinning, pitting, blisters, mechanical defects
Code requirements for pressure relief devices are covered by (dents, misalignment, and distortion), crack-like flaws (stress
the following ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code and ASME corrosion cracking, weld flaws, crack-like defects), fatigue and fire
Pressure Piping Code:
damage.
• ASME Section I – Power Boilers
BOILERS AND PRESSURE VESSELS Public Courses
• ASME Section IV – Heating Boilers Special Requirements
• ASME Section VIII – Pressure Vessels Participants must bring a laptop loaded with MS Excel and be
familiar with MS Excel spreadsheets for repeated calculations.
• ASME B31.1 – Power Piping
Participants are expected to work with computers during the course
• ASME B31.3 – Process Piping to input data and work with calculations.
The following European code will be reviewed and its application You Will Learn To
will be discussed in detail:
• EN ISO 4126 – Safety devices for protection against excessive • Identify the latest techniques to determine the fitness-
pressure for-service of operating tanks, vessels, piping systems
and pipelines
In addition, the following American Petroleum Institute (API)
standards will be discussed: • Explain the practical application of the ASME and API rules for
• API RP 520-Part I &II Sizing, Selection and Installation of Pressure structural integrity of static equipment and pipelines, and their use
Relief Devices to assess remaining life
• API RP 576-Inspection of Pressure Relief Devices • Explain how to apply the step-by-step 3-level approach of
API 579-1 ASME FFS to evaluate inspection results and
You Will Learn To recognise potential failure modes
• Explain Code requirements for pressure relief devices in the • Describe how to apply the latest developments in defect
ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, ASME Pressure Piping assessment techniques
Code and European Code
Who Should Attend
• Identify design, construction and manufacturing of pressure
relief devices Design and system engineers, integrity engineers
• Select materials for various types of pressure relief valves and Instructor: Mahmoud Nagi Shatla
rupture disks 4 Days, 3 CEUs, 30 PDHs
Dates: 12-15 December 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Explain how to apply API RP 520 Part I - Sizing and Selection of 8-11 May 2017, London, United Kingdom
Pressure Relieving Devices, API RP 520 Part II - Installation and 19-22 June, 2017, Milan, Italy
API RP 576 - Inspection of Pressure Relief Devices
Member: €1.750 / List Price €1.850
• Perform calculations for sizing and selection of pressure relief £1.675 / List Price £1.775 (London)
devices for single phase flow of fluids
• Explain how to handle transportation, storage, installation
and maintenance
• Explain how to perform inspections as per the National Board Free ASME Training & Development
Inspection Code (NBIC) and API standards
Autumn 2016 eCalendar Now Available
• Describe how to establish National Board “VR” (valve repair)
certification programme and repair PRVs
Download the FREE Autumn 2016 ASME Training
• Explain how to test pressure relief valves as required by the code
& Development eCalendar listing dates and locations
Who Should Attend of Live Course offerings in North America and
Mechanical engineers and design engineers, process engineers, Europe through December 2016, as well as
chemical engineers, reliability engineers and maintenance engineers, eLearning Courses available worldwide from
as well as inspectors and testing engineers, supervisors and managers
a PC with Internet access, any time.
Instructor: Mohammad A. Malek
3 Days, 2.3 CEUs, 23 PDHs
Date: 8-10 May 2017, London, United Kingdom Visit:
Member: £1.495 / List Price £1.595 (London) go.asme.org/EEUautumntraining
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