Above Ground Storage Tanks : Design, Operation and Maintenance Course
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Above Ground Storage Tanks : Design, Operation and Maintenance Course
Course Overview:
This course is intended to provide all fundamental aspects of Above Ground Storage Tanks (ASTs) including mechanical integrity, hazard analysis and risk management.
Participants get exposure to API codes and standards (API 620, 650, 653) and acquire applicable knowledge about tank design, inspection, and repairing practices. Damage mechanisms, non-destructive evaluation, corrosion control, and structural assessment of tanks’ roofs, floors and bases are important subjects.
The course includes issues related to safety, seismic measures, and risk control (API RP 580).
This course is useful to engineers, inspectors and maintenance staff because it helps them to understand how to implement ASTs integrity management in a better way.
Course Objectives:
The key objectives of this course are as follows:
- To assist participants in clearly understanding and applying the various aspects of relevant API codes & Recommended Practices to ensure mechanical integrity through effective inspections in a responsible and cost-effective manner.
- To enhance the knowledge and skills of the participants in hazard identification, analysis and risk assessment and management.
- To provide participants with practical and effective methods and tools to perform practical likelihood and consequence analyses.
Who Should Attend?
Individuals who have engineering, inspection, maintenance, and/or management responsibility related to aboveground atmospheric storage tanks that store hydrocarbon liquids.
Course Outlines:
An introduction to Above Ground Storage Tanks
- Codes, Standards, and Regulations
- API 620, 650, and 653
- Storage Tank Construction and Design Calculations
- Shell thickness calculations
- Stress evaluation
- Cylindrical Components Under Pressure
- Safety
- Resources
- Tank Inspection
Damage Mechanisms & Repair
- Nondestructive Examination
- NDE techniques & technologies
- Inspections on line and off line
- Materials & Corrosion
- Corrosion and Corrosion Prevention
- Typical damage mechanisms
- Repair and Alterations
- Tank Dismantling and Reconstruction
Roof & Floor
- Tank Roofs
- Floating roofs (internal & external)
- Inspection of roof sealing
- Inspection & repair of roof
- Tank Foundations & Tank Settlement
- Evaluation of tank bottom settlement
- Foundation repair or replacement
- Actual & minimum thickness determination
- Annular plate ring considerations
- Shell and Bottom Evaluation
Practical Considerations
- Tank Inspection, Repairs, and Reconstruction
- Shell penetrations
- Repair of tank bottoms
- Repairs within the critical zone
- Entire bottom replacement
- Roof repairs
- Welding
- Procedures for shell, bottom and critical zone.
- Welder Qualifications
- Weld inspections
- Groundwater Protection
- Seismic Considerations
Inspection Considerations
- Frequency of inspections
- Internal/external
- Alternate inspections
Associated API Recommended Practices
- Fitness for Service API RP 579
- Risk Based Inspection API RP 580
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