Piping, Pressure Vessel, Refinery - Fire Damage Assessment
Fires and explosions are events no facility wants to experience. Should your equipment experience damage due to a fire or explosion, Intertek is prepared to assist your staff in evaluating the damage as quickly as possible.
Intertek can field a team with the following technical and management specialties:
- Project Management
- Replication Technicians
- Metallurgical Engineers
- Fire and Explosion Root Cause Specialists
- API Certified Inspectors
- ASNT Inspectors (Levels I, II, III)
- Engineers (e.g., mechanical, civil, electrical)
The final composition of the team depends on the nature of the assignment. We are experienced in the assessment of damage to process equipment resulting from fires and explosions. Typical assignments have included:
- Fire damage assessment for over 80 vessels at a leading Gulf Coast chemical manufacturer, including Level III fitness for service evaluations
- Fire damage assessment for furnace components and associated structures damaged by fire at a leading Gulf Coast chemical manufacturer
- Over 400 surface replications performed for a West Coast refiner to assess the explosion damage to a two-stage hydrocracker
- Evaluation of fire damage at a natural gas plant
- Assessment of fire damage at power plants
- Fitness for Service (FFS) assessments of pressure equipment for more than 25 different facilities
The typical steps involved in developing a plan for assessing the damage to equipment from fires and explosions are as follows:
- Develop an assessment plan in cooperation with the facility’s Fire Damage Assessment (FAD) team. Using available information, develop an initial heat envelop/heat exposure zone, both elevation and plan, for the affected parts of the facility.
- Develop a scope of inspection and a timeline for assessment for the FDA.
- Prioritize the assessment based on long-lead-time, other critical equipment items, or facility requirements.
- Develop a staffing plan for the assessment. There will generally be a project ramp up or mobilization phase. Significant coordination is needed between us and the facility’s FDA team.
- Develop a communication and reporting/documentation plan for the duration of the project.
- Coordination with the FDA team regarding the root cause, management, and insurance issues.
Intertek can quickly assemble and manage a team of refinery and petrochemical specialists who have the required skill sets to assess fire damage:
- In-situ replications and replication evaluation
- Code Inspections (API 510, 570, 653)
- Hardness testing
- Wall thickness measurements
- Crack detection and identification
- Finite element modeling
- Boat samples
- Alloy analyzer
- Color video-probe with recording
- Photo-documentation
- Sequence of events and computer graphic simulations
Contact us to see how Intertek can help your organization with Piping, Pressure Vessel, Refinery - Fire Damage Assessment.