Understanding and Preventing Process Equipment Failures

This Understanding and Preventing Process Equipment Failures training seminar will be conducted along workshop principles with formal lectures and interactive worked examples included in relevant workshops. The emphasis in this Gulf Rowad training seminar will be on the explanation of all technical phenomena and providing answers to problems that are encountered in everyday industrial practice related to structural failure and mitigation techniques.

There will be ample opportunities for active discussion and sharing professional experiences and exchange that will help solidify the gained knowledge.

By the end of this training seminar, participants will enhance their competencies in the following areas:

• Understanding and prediction of the degradation mechanisms that affect process equipment fitness for service and could result in significant potential failures
• The inter-dependence of design, operation, and maintenance for achieving mechanical integrity of mechanical equipment
• Have a sound knowledge of the various types mechanical failure mechanisms, including fracture mechanics, Fatigue, Creep and corrosion
• Understand the basic concepts of inspection and NDT methods and their effective application
• Be familiar with relevant failure mitigation principles

This training seminar is intended for:

• Staff who use or supervise activities requiring the selection, design / fabrication or use of mechanical equipment or component parts
• Engineers who seek a basic understanding of the practical aspects of evaluation of structural integrity
• Operation, Technical Service and Maintenance Professionals from various processing plants involved in everyday operation, control, inspection and maintenance of equipment
• Engineers and Consultants dealing with planning of new production plants, retrofitting plants and introducing new technologies
• Technical Professionals responsible for maintenance and repair of equipment
• Project and Asset Managers

Organisational Impact

• The company will achieve improved mechanical integrity and availability of the equipment and piping systems
• Damage to process equipment and risk due to failure will be significantly reduced
• Reduction in cases of uncontrolled changes through better understanding of the significance and interdependence of design, operation and maintenance on integrity of the process equipment
• Improved competencies will result in higher staff productivity and effectiveness
• Learnings from failure investigations would prevent recurrence of failures
• The company will achieve improvement in loss prevention and safety as well as in financial performance

Personal Impact

• Participants will gain sound and practical understanding of the major degradation mechanisms in various industries, how to predict them, how to assess their impact on process equipment over their operating life, and how to prevent and control these degradation and damage mechanisms using best industry practices
• Participants will extend their knowledge about prevention of damage to process equipment through the effective application of key design, operation, maintenance, and integrity fundamentals and practices
• Participants will extend their knowledge about inspection and testing strategies and methods and their effective application to achieve the highest probability of detection of damage and defects