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Integrity & Inspection

Pressure Equipment Inspection & CMMS

Senior pressure equipment inspection and integrity capability with Chief Inspector level career depth. Combines field inspection, QA/QC and pressure equipment judgment with CMMS and SAP asset information management to support inspection programs and integrity decisions.

10,000+ pressure equipment inspections

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Independence
Findings challenged before release
Deployment
Remote response within 24 hours

What This Discipline Covers

Scope of the technical capability.

Senior pressure equipment inspection and integrity capability with Chief Inspector level career depth. Combines field inspection, QA/QC and pressure equipment judgment with CMMS and SAP asset information management to support inspection programs and integrity decisions.

  • Pressure vessel inspection
  • Boiler inspection
  • Tank inspection
  • Piping inspection
  • Heat exchanger inspection
  • In service inspection
  • Fabrication and shop inspection
  • Welding inspection
  • QA/QC
  • Inspection planning
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Fitness for service support
  • SAP and CMMS inspection data management

Problems The Technical Lead Solves

The questions this discipline is engaged to answer.

  1. 01

    Pressure equipment condition assessment

  2. 02

    Inspection program review

  3. 03

    Repair or replace support

  4. 04

    Integrity audits

  5. 05

    QA/QC surveillance

  6. 06

    Inspection data cleanup and migration

  7. 07

    SAP and CMMS integrity workflows

  8. 08

    Fitness for service evidence collection

Equipment And Systems

Assets this Technical Lead has worked on directly.

  • Pressure vessels
  • Boilers
  • Tanks
  • Piping
  • Heat exchangers
  • Facility installations

Industries And Environments

Operating environments where this experience was built.

  • Pulp and paper
  • Oil and gas
  • Pipeline and midstream
  • Industrial facilities

Diagnostic And Investigation Methods

How the technical work is actually performed.

  • Inspection planning and risk based inspection development
  • Thickness, corrosion rate, and remaining life calculation
  • Damage mechanism identification and screening
  • Fitness for service evaluation
  • Repair, alteration, and rerating review
  • Inspection data management and CMMS integration

Tools Capability

The platforms, instruments and measurement methods used on assignments.

These platforms, instruments and methods are used to produce evidence that holds up under audit, underwriting review and cross examination.

Pressure Equipment Engineering

  • Codeware COMPRESS

    ASME Section VIII vessel and exchanger calculation, MAWP verification and evaluation of repairs and alterations.

  • Codeware INSPECT

    API 579 fitness for service, corrosion rate analysis and remaining life from inspection data.

Integrity and Inspection Management

  • Cenosco IMS

    API 581 risk based inspection planning, damage mechanism review and inspection scope definition.

  • SAP S/4HANA Asset Management and IBM Maximo

    Inspection records, notifications, work management and asset register integrity.

Inspection Technologies

  • UT, PAUT, TOFD and RT

    Volumetric examination of welds, wall loss and cracking in vessels, piping, tanks and exchangers.

  • MT, PT, VT, eddy current and array eddy current

    Surface and near surface flaw detection during inspection and investigation.

  • IRIS, MFL and tube inspection

    Exchanger, boiler tube and tank floor condition assessment.

  • Remote field testing and boiler tube thickness mapping

    Economizer, generating bank and waterwall condition captured as mapped loss rate rather than spot readings.

  • Deposit weight density and deposit chemical analysis

    Waterside deposit loading assessed to support under deposit corrosion findings and chemical cleaning decisions.

  • Acoustic emission monitoring

    Global screening of vessels and tanks for active flaw growth during pressure test or service.

Boiler Water and Feedwater Diagnostics

  • Online dissolved oxygen analysis with representative sample coolers

    Feedwater oxygen measured where it is meaningful, with sample system representativeness verified before the data is relied on.

  • Specific and cation conductivity, pH and iron transport monitoring

    Chemistry excursion history and corrosion product transport correlated against tube damage discovery.

  • Deaerator performance assessment

    Approach to saturation, vent flow adequacy, internal condition and scavenger demand evaluated as mechanical performance, not chemistry compliance.

  • Boiler circulation and thermal hydraulic analysis

    Circuit flow adequacy, header distribution and metal temperature evaluated where overheating or localized loss is suspected.

Remote, Robotic and Visual Access

  • Robotic tank and pipe crawlers

    Internal inspection of tanks, headers and piping without confined space entry or full shutdown.

  • Videoscope and borescope inspection

    Internal surface, nozzle and tube examination through existing access points.

  • Drone inspection with mounted UT and thermography

    Elevated vessel, stack and structure examination without scaffold.

3D Capture and Dimensional Evidence

  • 3D laser scanning and corrosion mapping

    Bulge, distortion and wall loss geometry captured as measured data rather than description.

Root Cause and Analytical Method

  • API 571 damage mechanism review with fault tree analysis

    Attribution of wall loss or cracking to a specific mechanism and operating condition.

  • Apollo Root Cause Analysis

    Formal cause chain where a pressure equipment failure, leak or forced outage is under claim or dispute.

BlackOut Power / TerraTolga Proprietary Capability

Codes And Standards

Frameworks applied to the analysis.

  • API 510, 570, 653 and 580 or 581
  • ASME BPVC Sections V and VIII
  • ASME PCC-2 repair of pressure equipment
  • API 579 fitness for service
  • NBIC repair and alteration
  • ASME PCC-2

Credentials And Qualification

The professional basis for this discipline.

  1. 01

    API inspector certifications or equivalent recognized qualification

  2. 02

    NDT qualification and oversight experience

  3. 03

    Mechanical integrity program ownership in operating facilities

  4. 04

    Turnaround and inspection campaign leadership

Scale And Breadth

Reported scale of professional exposure.

  • 01

    10,000+ pressure equipment inspections

  • 02

    Approximately 30 years of Chief Inspector experience

  • 03

    20+ years of SAP and CMMS experience

Representative Professional Experience

Assignment types this discipline supports.

  1. 01

    Development of a risk based inspection program for a pressure equipment population

  2. 02

    Fitness for service assessment supporting continued operation of a degraded vessel

  3. 03

    Investigation of accelerated corrosion and the process change that caused it

  4. 04

    Independent review of inspection records supporting an asset transaction

Assignment descriptions are generalized to protect client confidentiality. Specific references can be discussed during scoping where permissions allow.

Multidisciplinary Interfaces

Disciplines this work commonly coordinates with.

  • Reliability & Asset Integrity
  • Mechanical & Codes
  • Materials & Metallurgy
  • NDT
  • Process

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