ASNT Industry Handbook: Chemical and Petroleum NDT
The Technical and Education Council is preparing this volume for future publication.
Outline
- 1. Introduction
- Importance of NDT to the Chemical/Petroleum Industry
- Need for reliability
- Uniqueness of inspections relative to other industries
- Development of industry integrity requirements due to historical failures
- Risk Based Inspection and Fitness for Service
- History
- Background to Chemical/Petroleum Industry
- Refining & Processing Plants
- Pipelines
- Oil Country Tubular Goods
- Structures including Offshore
- 2. NDT Applications with Capabilities and Limitations
- Refining & Processing Plants
- Storage Tanks
- Aboveground
- Underground
- Pressure Vessels and Spheres
- Cokers
- Heat Exchangers
- Reactor Vessels and Tubing
- Reformers and Tubing
- Piping & Valves
- Accessible
- Non-accessible
- CUI
- Supports
- Buried
- Penetrations
- Elevated
- Nonmetallic
- High Temperature Vessels & Piping
- Expansion Joints
- Flanges (HOIS data)
- Pipelines/Transmission
- Piggable Lines
- Non-Piggable lines
- Offshore
- Loading Lines
- 3. Special NDT Areas pertaining to C&P Industry
- Corrosion Under Insulation
- Permanently Installed Sensors
- Global Screening techniques
- Positive Material Identification (PMI)
- 4. Personnel Qualification and Limitations of NDT Techniques
- Most worldwide schemes
- Personnel qualification
- Technique limitations
- 5. NDT Methods Used in the Chemical/Petroleum Industry
- (brief descriptions of methods with references to more detailed information)
- UT (EMAT, TOFD, phased array, guided waves)
- MT
- MFL
- PT
- VT and Laser Methods
- ET (ACFM, RFT, XRFT, phased array)
- RT
- AE
- LT
- Microwave (GPR, CUI)
- 6. Standards and Specifications
- Overview
- API
- 5B, 5CT, 5D, RP7G, Spec 7, 11B, 5L, 5LX, 1104
- RP 571, Damage Mechanisms Affecting Equipment …
- RP 580, Risk-Based Inspection
- RP 579, Fitness-For-Service
- ASME
- AWS
- ASTM
- EN
- ISO
- TEMA (heat exchangers)
- CPI Specialized NDT Personnel Qualification and Certification
- SNT-TC-1A
- Pipeline Scraper ASNT
- API QUTE for UT
- OSHA Mechanical Integrity Process Safety Requirements
- DOT Pipelines
- 7. Glossary of Chemical/Petroleum Industry and NDT/NDE Terminology
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