Intermediate Piping Engineer

1. Buried Piping Engineering using Caesar II

After this course, you...

• Have a good understanding of theoretical and practical aspects involved with realizing buried industrial piping systems,

• Know how to apply for ground entries, underground supporting, thrust blocks, and road crossings,

• Are able to perform a pipe stress analysis in Caesar II,

• Know potential critical issues and related failure mechanisms,

• Understand the difference between steel and non-steel for buried piping.

2. The 8 Forms of Corrosion

After this course, you...

• have an awareness of the main forms of corrosion found within the refining, chemical and power generation industries.
• understand the basic principles of corrosion science for these damage mechanisms.
• have an appreciation of the process systems, design features and operating conditions that are the main drivers of corrosion.
• have learned how various types of corrosion can be diagnosed.
• have seen a wide range of corrosion failure examples from the processing industry.
• have been taken through a selection of process safety cases illustrating corrosion failures, and have gained an appreciation of the lessons learned.
• understand the mitigation options available to avoid these corrosion issues.

3. FEA Important Engineering Concepts

After this course, you will....

• Understand the difference between the equivalent stress, and normal and shear stresses
• understand Hooke's law and Structural Rigidity
• know how real and numerical stress concentrations arise
• have learnt about checking the force balance
• understand what is meant by rigid body motion

4. Acoustic and Flow Induced Vibrations (AIV, FIV) in Industrial Systems

After this course, you...

• Have a good understanding of the physical phenomena associated with AIV and FIV,

• Know how to approach AIV and FIV issues in the field,

• Are able to identify the risk of AIV and FIV for new systems,

• Know Codes and Guidelines that are relevant when evaluating AIV and FIV,

• Have seen a multitude of real-life cases.

5. Flange Leakage Calculations

After the course, you will learn about

• Flange Leakage Calculations
• Kellogg's equivalent pressure method
• Flange calculations: ASME VIII Division 1 & 2
• Flange calculations: API TR 6AF & API TR 6AF2

6. Fiberglass Engineering for Piping Systems: an introduction

After this course, you...

• understand the different aspects involved with realizing an FRP piping system,

• have a basic understanding of FRP materials and engineering processes,

• have seen multiple examples of FRP systems and discussions about good design practices.