Industrial Maintenance and Turnarounds
Planning and running plant turnarounds and outages along the lower Mississippi: scope, schedules, isolation, vessel, exchanger, column and boiler maintenance, inspection hold points and shutdown safety.
BLR-330 12 lessons · 3 h 59 min ▶ Video lessons coming soon
Offered by HSM University · Boilermaking
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Explain what turnarounds and outages are, why plants do them and how lost production and work cost drive their planning
- Describe how turnaround scope is gathered, ranked by risk, frozen and turned into work packages, and how emergent work is handled
- Read a turnaround schedule, calculate float and the critical path, and explain how manpower is loaded and leveled
- Describe how a unit is shut down, freed of hazards, isolated with blinds and locks, and handed over to maintenance and back
- Open, ventilate, gas test, clean and close a vessel safely, and explain what the inspector looks for inside it
- Plan and carry out turnaround work on shell-and-tube exchangers, including bundle handling, plugging, bolted joint assembly to ASME PCC-1 and testing
- Describe column internals and how trays and packing are removed, installed, checked and recorded
- Describe boiler outage work on the fire side and water side, tube thickness surveys, safety valve servicing and return to service
- Explain the main damage mechanisms, the inspection methods that find them and how API 510 sets remaining life and inspection intervals
- Work with inspectors using inspection and test plans, hold, witness and review points, records and nonconformance reports
- Apply permits to work, hot work controls and simultaneous operations planning, and manage the other hazards of shutdowns and start-ups
- Lead a crew through a turnaround, measuring progress with earned value, recovering from problems and closing the work out
Course content
12 lessons · 3 h 59 min total · final exam
- 1 Turnarounds and outages in industry 21 min · quiz
- 2 Scope, work lists and the turnaround plan 20 min · quiz
- 3 Scheduling, critical path and manpower 20 min · quiz
- 4 Shutdown, isolation and handover to maintenance 20 min · quiz
- 5 Opening, cleaning and inspecting vessels 19 min · quiz
- 6 Heat exchanger maintenance: bundles, bolting and testing 20 min · quiz
- 7 Columns, trays and internals 20 min · quiz
- 8 Boiler outage maintenance 20 min · quiz
- 9 Damage mechanisms and what inspectors look for 20 min · quiz
- 10 Working with inspectors and quality hold points 19 min · quiz
- 11 Safety, permits and simultaneous operations during shutdowns 20 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: running a crew through the Northgate turnaround 20 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Planning and running plant turnarounds and outages along the lower Mississippi: scope, schedules, isolation, vessel, exchanger, column and boiler maintenance, inspection hold points and shutdown safety.