
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
- UEI
- ZR3PJZEA7A21
- CAGE
- 174X8
- 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.
- 01
Pressure equipment condition assessment
- 02
Inspection program review
- 03
Repair or replace support
- 04
Integrity audits
- 05
QA/QC surveillance
- 06
Inspection data cleanup and migration
- 07
SAP and CMMS integrity workflows
- 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
- Criticality
Consequence based ranking of pressure equipment to set inspection interval and capital priority.
- Engineering Records Intelligence
Inspection reports, U-1 forms, repair records and specifications assembled into one defensible equipment file.
- TerraTolga PDF / Vault Compare
Comparison of drawing and datasheet revisions where design basis or repair authority is disputed.
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.
- 01
API inspector certifications or equivalent recognized qualification
- 02
NDT qualification and oversight experience
- 03
Mechanical integrity program ownership in operating facilities
- 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.
- 01
Development of a risk based inspection program for a pressure equipment population
- 02
Fitness for service assessment supporting continued operation of a degraded vessel
- 03
Investigation of accelerated corrosion and the process change that caused it
- 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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