API RP 571 & Advanced Damage Mechanisms
and Material Investigation in the Refining
Petrochemical & Petroleum Industries

By the end of this API RP 571 & Advanced Damage Mechanisms and Material Investigation in the Refining, Petrochemical & Petroleum Industries (API Exam Preparation Training) training course, participants will learn to:

• Understand general damage mechanisms applicable to the industry and be able to identify their features and function
• Recognize and be aware of the mechanical and metallurgical failure mechanisms related to the brittle fracture and material embrittlement, creep and stress rupture, thermal and mechanical fatigue, as well as most prevalent problems such as corrosion
• Identify refining industry damage mechanisms on uniform or localized loss thickness and explain the various types of corrosion related to it
• Be aware of the conditions for and morphology of high-temperature damage mechanisms such as oxidation, sulfidation, carburization, metal dusting, high temperature hydrogen attack (HTHA) and decarburization, among others
• Understand the document background, scope, organization, and limitation in use of API RP 571
• Appreciate the need of further in-depth study for each damage mechanism for the practical implementation in the day-to-day-work

This API RP 571 & Advanced Damage Mechanisms and Material Investigation in the Refining, Petrochemical & Petroleum Industries (API Exam Preparation Training) training course is aimed at engineers and personnel that is involved in designing, operating, maintaining, repairing, inspecting, and analyzing pressure vessels, piping, tanks and pipelines for safe operations in the refining, petrochemical and other related industries. 

• Experienced Maintenance Personnel
• Corrosion/Material Engineers; Corrosion Managers/Technicians
• Asset Integrity Engineers
• Maintenance Managers
• Mechanical and Process Engineers
• Inspectors
• Designers

This training combines lectures teaching the theory and explaining the background of the damage mechanisms, and then link it to the operational conditions found in the typical petrochemical / refining plant. The lectures are accompanied and illustrated by real-life examples and, in a few cases, first-hand experience of the trainer, giving unique transition from theory to practice. Further, the practical workshops will allow the participants to try to combine own professional knowledge and experience with the newly acquired knowledge during the course in order to be able to solve practical problems.

The organization will increase the professional level of their maintenance and operation excellence, and, ideally achieve the following goals:

• Technical excellence in understanding the state of the plant
• Technical excellence and application of the state-of-the-art methods in inspection planning
• Systemic approach to the maintenance in terms of understanding the damage source and monitoring/inspection techniques
• Increased safety and asset reliability
• Optimal life-cycle utilization of the fixed assets
• Economic benefits in form of optimal RoI from capital assets

The API RP 571 & Advanced Damage Mechanisms and Material Investigation in the Refining, Petrochemical & Petroleum Industries (API Exam Preparation Training) training course participants will gain basic understanding of the various damage mechanisms present in process industry, as well as understand the interaction between the material of construction, operating environment, process fluid and operating parameters.

At the end of this PetroKnowledge training course, the participants will be able to match the inspection and mitigation strategies to the true state of equipment, as well as to be able to recognize the morphology of the damage as such. Participants will gain sufficient knowledge and topic understanding for the successful completion of the API 571 Exam. This certification might put you in the narrow circle of several thousand specialists world-wide.