Inspection, equipment

Frequently a piece of equipment is used in different processes during its lifecycle. This could result in process conditions that exceed the safe operating limits of the equipment. Equipment inspection may provide a poor prediction of the equipment s useful life and reliability, due to the change of material handled or change in process chemistry over the life of equipment. Batch operations are also characterized by frequent start-up and shut-down of equipment. This can lead to accelerated equipment aging and may lead to equipment failure. This chapter presents issues and concerns related to the safe design, operation, and maintenance of various pieces of equipment in batch reaction systems, and provides potential solutions. 

Transport and delivery of materials and equipment Inspection of equipment entering the site Storage of equipment awaiting installation Storage of spares and consumables Installation of equipment Commissioning tests Acceptance tests... 

Control of measuring and test equipment (inspection, measuring and test equipment) V... 

Chapter IV Guide for Inspection of Refinery Equipment—Inspection Tools... 

Corrosion Theory 1259. Forms of Corrosion Attack 1268. Factors Influencing Corrosion Rate 1292. Corrodents in Drilling Fluids 1300. Corrosion Monitoring and Equipment Inspections 1312. Corrosion Control 1323. Recommended Practices 1340. 

The pre-installation equipment inspection should include the following stuffing box space, lateral or axial shaft movement (end play), radial shaft movement (whip or deflection), shaft runout (bent shaft), stuffing box face squareness, stuffing box bore concentricity, driver alignment, and pipe strain. 

Molnar, T. L. Boiler System Equipment Inspection Techniques. Mogul Applications Discussion Document. Mogul Corporation (Dexter), USA, 1982. 

Key components of a fire protection equipment inspection, testing, and maintenance program ... 

Assign fire equipment inspection responsibility to a qualified, trained person. 

IR Information IM.1.12.0. 1998. Fire Protection Equipment Inspection. Industrial Risk Insurers. 

The first phase of process safety incident investigation involves gathering all the pertinent facts from the collected evidence, whether derived from interviews, site and equipment inspections, or document reviews. At this... 

As with any activity required by regulation, records must be maintained of all equipment inspection, maintenance, testing, calibrating, and/or standardizing operations. The records required by this section of the regulations are necessary... 

Equipment inspection, maintenance, and repair records can be recorded in a logbook especially designed for that purpose. For equipment that is moved from laboratory to laboratory, the logbook should accompany the equipment when it is moved. Documentation of calibrating or standardizing operations, on the other hand, may be more efficiently recorded with the associated records of the data acquisition activities. 

Most off-spec paint is generated by small shops manufacturing specialty paints. Better operating practices are useful in reducing off-spec products. These practices include better operator training, closer operator supervision, more rigorous equipment inspection and maintenance, and, where feasible, increased use of automated manufacturing systems. 

Does the customer s management fully understand what is required from their side and can they actually deliver the necessary supervisory and manpower support For example, changing from a system of simple chemical dosing pumps to a microprocessor-controlled product residual tracing and addition system will probably require more equipment inspection and calibration time. It will also require a high degree of instrumentation skill. 

There is a growing trend for many operators not to have any direct involvement with their cooling system chemical dosing equipment (with regard to the addition of chemical, mixing and chemical dilutions, pump adjustments, and possibly even periodic equipment inspections and maintenance). The equipment may also not be owned by the customer. Rather, the water treatment service companies may lease the equipment to the customer, or provide free-on-loan equipment, together with all chemical dosing and control functions, as part of their services to the facility. 

B6 Instrument/equipment, inspection and maintenance B8 Inspection/acceptance of supplies and consumables 2.10 Preparedness and coordination 3.3 Sample preservation techniques 3.9 Field measurements... 

Maintenance Considerations Equipment Inspection Premodification Periodically in Service Trip and Alarm Testing Maintenance Procedures Specialty Contractors Line Freezing Hot Tapping or Stopple On-Stream leak repair... 

Delays to Safety Critical Instrument Test and Equipment Inspection Frequencies... 

The American Petroleum Institute (API) maintains cooperation between U.S. government and industry on all petroleum-related issues of U.S. concern. The API provides process hazards and process safety seminars, but they are best known to some of us for their valuable publications. The API generates easy-to-read and easy-to-understand technical standards of design and fire protection. They also provide equipment inspection guides that are applicable in most plants. Specific information about their large number of standards can be obtained at their website. 

Corrosion may be monitored by measuring changes in thickness with time using ultrasonic thickness gages. An automated ultrasonic inspection system has been devised and used in monitoring corrosion in nuclear waste containers and typical variations in ultrasonic indications in corroded and uncorroded areas have been recorded successfully. Major types of equipment inspection by ultrasonic technique has been done in mill components, power equipment, jet engine parts, aircraft components, railway materials, automotive components and other machinery components. 

S. Yakemchuk and D. Roth, Equipment Inspection Report, Sherritt Final Report, S.O. 343371, November 23, 2003. 

Acceptance Reports. The Construction Manager must document and file all final equipment inspection and acceptance. 

Equipment inspections, vehicle loading, placarding, regulatory requirements, recognizing problems, and corrective action. Part of seven-volume series, "Handling Hazard Waste. ... 

Increasing operators responsibilities in housekeeping, equipment inspection, and performance of minor maintenance. 

Because of the dangerous and difficult aspects of obtaining high-level radioactive materials from a nuclear facility, there is a greater chance that the radioactive materials used in a dirty bomb would come from low-level radioactive sources. Low-level radioactive sources are found in hospitals, on construction sites, and at food irradiation plants. The sources in these areas are used to diagnose and treat illnesses, sterilize equipment, inspect welding seams, and irradiate food to kill harmful microbes. 

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