Buch, Englisch, 690 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1217 g
Pressure Systems and Mechanical Plant
Buch, Englisch, 690 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1217 g
ISBN: 978-1-86058-416-9
Verlag: Wiley
This comprehensive sister volume to Cliff Matthews’ highly successful Handbook of Mechanical Works Inspection gives a detailed coverage of pressure equipment and other mechanical plant such as cranes and rotating equipment.
Key features:
- Accessible source of information
- Lavishly illustrated with numerous diagrams, photographs, and tables
- A wealth of valuable information
- Detailed, comprehensive coverage
- Written in easily accessible style
- A ‘must buy’ reference book
The Handbook of Mechanical In-Service Inspection is a vital source of information for:
- plant owners and operators maintenance engineers
- inspection engineers from insurance companies and ‘competent bodies’ who perform in-service inspection
- health and safety operatives
- engineers operating pressure systems and mechanical plant
- all those concerned with the safe and efficient operation of machinery, plant, and pressure equipment.
All engineering pressure systems and other types of mechanical equipment must be installed, operated, and maintained properly. It must be safe and comply with standards, regulations, and guidelines. In-service inspection is more formally controlled by statutory requirements than other types of inspection. The Handbook of Mechanical In-service Inspection puts a good deal of emphasis on the ‘compliance’ aspects and the ‘duty of care’ requirements placed on plant owners, operators, and inspectors.
The book is suitable for those who operate pressure systems, lifting equipment, and similar mechanical plant are subject to rigorous inspection from external bodies as a matter of course. All operators have a duty to conduct in-service checks and internal inspection procedures to ensure the safe, reliable, and economic running of their equipment.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction--The Handbook of In-Service Inspection xiii
Essential Principles
In-Service Inspection--The Concept 3
ISI--why bother? 3
ISI and integrity management 4
In-service inspection versus construction inspection 5
In-service--predictive or defensive measure? 7
The Inspection Business--Who Does What? 11
The driving forces 11
The regulators 12
Accreditation bodies 14
Standards organizations 16
Classification societies 17
Insurance companies 19
Inspection organizations 24
Conclusion--the in-service inspection business 30
Roles and Duties of the In-Service Inspector 31
The inspector's duty of care 31
Liability--inspector versus employer 33
Inspector competence 35
The technical skills of the inspector 40
The Management of In-Service Inspection 49
The technical competence (TC) model 50
The procedures, paperwork and audits (PPA) model 51
TC versus PPA--decision or balancing act? 53
The Pressure Systems Safety Regulations (PSSRs): 2000 57
The PSSRs--what are they? 57
Content of the PSSRs 60
Bibliography 91
Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) 93
How reliable is site NDT? 93
The inspector as NDT technician? 95
Visual inspection 100
In-service inspection of welds 103
Surface crack detection 106
Volumetric NDT 115
NDT standards 147
Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) 149
So what is RBI? 149
Before we start--some important concepts 150
RBI--the basic techniques 157
The RBI programme itself 158
RBI standards and published documents 178
Failure 185
Failure mechanisms 185
Failure statistics 185
Fatigue 191
Creep 193
Corrosion 195
Useful references 206
Fitness-For-Purpose/Service Assessment 213
FFP assessments--what are they? 213
FFP assessment standards 218
Analysing fracture--the failure assessment diagram (FAD) 219
Analysing fatigue 225
Analysing creep 227
Analysing corrosion 230
API 579:1999 232
Sample BS 7910 calculation procedure 240
Bibliography 245
Technical Disciplines Pressure Testing 249
Pressure testing--safety first 249
Types of pressure test 251
Vacuum leak testing 256
Volumetric expansion testing 258
Pressure tests--technical aspects 258
In-service test procedures for pressure-equipment types 267
Pressure Vessel Inspections: API 510 277
How is API 510 used in in-service inspection? 277
The content of API 510 279
In-service inspection of pressure vessles--engineering aspects 283
Protective Devices 293
Protective device categories 293
PRV types 294
PRVs--principles of operation 296
In-service inspection of PRVs 299
PRV technical standards 311
PRVs--glossary of terms 322
Pipework and Pipelines 325
Pipework types and classifications 326
Pipework in-service inspection 328
High-integrity pipework 334
Pipeline inspection 338
Glass re-inforced plastic (GRP) re-lining 349
Small-bore tubing systems 356
Storage Tanks 363
Codes and standards 363
Construction features 366
Tank inspections 372
Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs) 397
HRSG construction 397
HRSG corrosion 400
HRSG materials of construction 403
HRSG damage mechanisms 405
High-temperature HRSG headers 408
HRSG steam drums 427
HRSG tube banks 432
Low-temperature headers 436
Attemporators 442
HRSG remnant life assessment 444
Heat Exchangers 457
Shell-tube exchangers--construction features 458
'Fin-fan' coolers--construction features 459
Technical codes and standards 465
In-service inspection of heat exchangers 467
NDT techniques 478
Transportable Pressure Equipment (TPE) 489
TPRs--the statutory background 489
In-service inspection of transportable pressure equipment 493
Industrial Cranes 505
Introduction 505
The LOLER regulations 505
Crane types and construction 508
Crane test, inspection, and repair 519
Codes and standards: cranes 529
Mobile Cranes 533
Mobile crane types 533
Load rating 535
Mobile crane tests 536
Common terminology 547
Mobile crane standards 551
Passenger and Goods Lifts 553
Lift types 553
Lift inspections 555
Bibliography 556
Motor vehicle repair equipment 558
Small Industrial Lifting Tackle 573
Statutory requirements 574
The role of the in-service inspectors 575
Reference standards 585
Diesel Engines 587
Diesel engine FFP criteria 587
Appendices
The CSWIP Plant Inspector Certification Scheme 613
CSWIP plant inspector certification scheme training syllabus 617
Websites--quick reference 621
Organizations and associations 621
General technical information 623
Directives and legislation 625
Summary of in-service inspection requirements worldwide 627
EEMUA publications for mechanical plant and equipment 629
SAFeD publications and fact sheets 633
The European Pressure Equipment Directive (PED): summary 637
Introduction--what's the PED all about? 637
The driving forces behind the PED and similar European directives 638
The EU 'new approaches' 638
The role of technical standards 639
The situation for manufacture of new pressure equipment 640
Vessel 'statutory' certification 640
The CE mark--what is it? 643
PED--its purpose 643
Degradation mechanisms (refining/petrochemical applications) as defined in API RP 580 653
European and American associations and organizations relevant to pressure equipment and inspection activities 669
Index 683
