Integrity Assessment

Plant reliability depends on its equipment integrity. It is imperative to conduct an integrity assessment if you intend to replace your damaged equipment with a used one. Similarly, by conducting a proper integrity assessment, we can help you decide whether your operative equipment needs to replace, repaired or run as it is. We use ASME/FFS-579 approach to conduct detailed fitness for service evaluation and issue a comprehensive report with actionable recommendations.

Extend Vessel Life by Applying NBIC 3.4

The design margin used to determine allowable stress was reduced from 4.0 to 3.5 in the A99 Addenda of the ASME Code.  This often resulted in thinner, lighter vessels.  At about the same time, the National Board Inspection Code (NBIC) introduced rules that allowed the use of these higher allowable stresses when re-rating vessels built to Codes before the A99 Addenda.  Doing so effectively makes additional thickness available as corrosion allowance, resulting in extended life for older vessels.  We use the higher allowable stresses per NBIC Section 3.4 as appropriate.  For vessels fabricated before 1968, our program automatically uses allowable stresses based on the original design margin of 4.0.

Failure Investigation Reports Review

When you receive a report on a failure investigation of your plant equipment or pipeline, a third-party vendor usually issues the final report without proper recommendations. Because the vendor doesn’t know how the equipment operates in the plant, it is challenging to provide sound recommendations. After consulting plant operators, we will thoroughly review the report and provide actionable recommendations. You can prevent future failures and save money by implementing proper recommendations.