Handbook of Mechanical In-Service Inspection: Pressure Systems and Mechanical Plant

Clifford Matthews

John Wiley & Sons, Dec 30, 2003 - Technology & Engineering - 690 pages

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.

Contents

• Inservice inspection versus construction inspection: 5
• The Inspection Business Who Does What?: 11
• Classification societies: 17
• Conclusion the inservice inspection business: 30
• The technical skills of the inspector: 40
• The Management of InService Inspection: 49
• The Pressure Systems Safety Regulations: 57
• Bibliography: 91
• Visual inspection: 100
• Surface crack detection: 106
• NDT standards: 147
• RBI the basic techniques: 157
• RBI standards and published documents: 178
• Failure: 185
• Corrosion: 195
• Useful references: 206
• FitnessForPurposeService Assessment: 213
• Analysing fracture the failure assessment diagram FAD: 219
• Analysing fatigue: 225
• 1999: 232
• Sample BS 7910 calculation procedure: 240
• Pressure Testing: 249
• Vacuum leak testing: 256
• Inservice test procedures for pressureequipment types: 267
• API 510: 277
• Inservice inspection of pressure vessels engineering aspects: 283
• Protective Devices: 293
• Inservice inspection of PRVs: 299
• PRV technical standards: 311
• PRVS glossary of terms: 322
• Pipework inservice inspection: 328
• Highintegrity pipework: 334
• Glass reinforced plastic GRP relining: 349
• Smallbore tubing systems: 356
• Storage Tanks: 363
• Tank inspections: 372
• Heat Recovery Steam Generators HRSGs: 397
• HRSG materials of construction: 403
• Hightemperature HRSG headers: 408
• HRSG steam drums: 427
• Attemporators: 442
• Heat Exchangers: 457
• NDT techniques: 478
• Inservice inspection of transportable pressure equipment: 493
• Crane types and construction: 508
• cranes: 529
• Common terminology: 547
• Small Industrial Lifting Tackle: 573
• The role of the inservice inspectors: 575
• Reference standards: 585
• The CSWIP Plant Inspector Certification Scheme: 613
• Websites quick reference: 621
• Summary of inservice inspection requirements worldwide: 627
• SAFED publications and fact sheets: 633
• Degradation mechanisms refiningpetrochemical applications: 653
• European and American associations and organizations: 669
• Index: 683

About the author

Clifford Matthews, Consulting Engineer.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Handbook of Mechanical In-Service Inspection: Pressure Systems and Mechanical Plant; Professional Engineering Publishing handbook
• Author: Clifford Matthews
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2003
• ISBN: 1860584160, 9781860584169
• Length: 690 pages
• Subjects: Technology & Engineering / Manufacturing; Technology & Engineering / Mechanical; Technology & Engineering / Quality Control