Technical Integrity Engineering is a term applied to the

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disciplines associated with the design, assurance, and verification functions that ensure a product, process, or system meets its appropriate and intended requirements under stated operating conditions. Application of these disciplines minimizes the cost, schedule, technical, and legal risks of a program and improves the overall life cycle cost. Asset Integrity is a term that relates to the process that improves operational reliability, safety, and asset protection whilst at the same time helping to maximize plant performance and mitigate the constant challenges and hazards facing heavy industries such as

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. It is also considered the discipline and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, legal, and practical knowledge to the assurance and verification functions that ensure a product, process, or system meets (and is meeting) its appropriate and intended safety, legal, and business requirement(s). Typical responsibilities for an Integrity Engineer include coordinating the efficient and cost-effective implementation of inspections and integrity management programs and ensuring the integrity of plant facilities, including all onshore and offshore structures,

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s, stationary equipment, piping systems, etc. In the scope of Integrity Management, it is essential that this role is independent so that unbiased and forthright decisions are made to ensure that equipment is designed, maintained, operated, and decommissioned in a responsible manner that complies with the industry’s best practices.

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Integrity Engineers may be required to manage, develop, or conduct the following: * A high-level integrity management philosophy that includes verification and assurance of facilities (Basic repair methods and strategies, Static equipment repair and temporary repairs, Fabric maintenance, Corrosion Engineering, Inspection Engineering, Chemical management, and Maintenance Management) * A Competency Management scheme * An RBI analysis * Integrity processes. i.e., Write Risk-Based Inspection methodologies, Temporary Repair methodologies, Maintenance Strategies, Mechanical Integrity Management Strategy (MIMS), Structural Integrity Management Strategy (SIMS), Pipeline Integrity Management Strategy (PIMS), Well Integrity Management System (WIMS), and create corrosion circuits for the plant process * Verification Schemes and performance Standards management * Conduct Life extension studies * A Fitness-for-service review * Write and review

Integrity Management Plan Integrity Management Plan (part of an asset integrity management system) is a documented and systematic approach to ensure the long-term integrity of an asset or assets. Integrity management planning is a process for assessing and mitigating risks ...

s * Identify, investigate and assess deterioration/corrosion and ensure timely maintenance of the affected facilities. * Implement Inspection and

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Risk Based Inspection Risk Based Inspection (RBI) is an Optimal maintenance business process used to examine equipment such as pressure vessels, (QOC) quick opening closure - doors, heat exchangers, and piping in industrial plants. RBI is a decision-making methodology f ...

(RBI) methods to manage integrity, and optimize inspections frequency, maintenance cost, and plant availability * Lead and conduct RBI reviews * Participate in the preparation of Capital and Operating budgets for Inspection * Monitor and oversee the execution of inspection programs and activities * Liaise closely with Operations, Technical Services, Corrosion engineering, Inspection Engineering, Verification Engineering, Process/Chemical and

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and other Maintenance Units to coordinate major shutdowns and turn-around activities * Supervise, witness, and participate in the certification process of hydro tests and load tests of lifting devices and cylinders * Ensure systematic and consistent implementation of work methods and procedures used in Maintenance and Inspection and recommend improvements * Ensure systematic update of maintenance management systems * Participate in technical studies, Process and Instrument diagram reviews, Safety Integrity Level (SIL) assessments and HAZOPs * Lead in failure investigations *Input and control of asset integrity management software Integrity Engineering encompasses the concept of: * Organize, review, analyze, improve and control cycle * Consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations, and outcomes * An undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting * Knowledge of many interfaces of technology * Balancing and countering the materials degradation process during the in-service life cycle of equipment *Ensuring the recommended risk mitigation actions derived from the RBI study are implemented *Ensuring inspection intervals are not exceeded *Ensuring resources are available for RBI Assessments This may be applied to management, machines, devices, systems, materials, and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of assets. The Integrity Engineer (IE) may also be involved with other asset life-cycle issues, such as the basis of design (Process design basis) through to recycling. The Front End Engineering Design stage (FEED) aids in the selection of vessels, piping, pipelines, and other equipment. At this FEED stage, the optimum material requirements, mitigation, and maintenance requirements for the intended period of operation become the basis for detailed engineering. It is the role of the IE to develop/validate the integrity management plan and implement the monitoring and management procedure for the intended period of operation. It may also be the responsibility of the integrity engineer to incorporate and manage any variation identified (metal loss, material degradation, cracking mechanisms, mitigation issues, i.e.

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potentials, coating failures, etc.) during the monitoring regime. It may be a generalist in nature and/or applied with specific prior knowledge denoted using a pre-nominal of Mechanical, Inspection, Asset, Well or Wellhead, Technical, Pipeline, Signal, Fabrication, or Commissioning depending upon the equipment or system under scrutiny. Integrity Engineers construct and implement Integrity Management plans that detail the requirements of the item or asset under scrutiny and study any adverse effects from internal or external sources that damage / impair that item or system. These are used to build suitable inspection and condition monitoring forward strategies. The monitoring may include physical (pipes/vessels) and nonphysical systems (Management legal obligations). This diversity will depend upon the requirements of the task at hand. Integrity Engineers also oversee or carry out Integrity Engineering Audit(s) to ensure legal compliance with company, national and international standards and ensure quality assurance within the process that meets good engineering standards.

External links

* Oil and Gas Fundamentals
The Fundamentals of Asset Integrity
' * Asset Integrity Engineering training

' * NACE Training Course - Pipeline Corrosion Integrity Management
Pipeline Corrosion Integrity
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References

# Integrity Of Engineering Components Journal Sadhana Publisher Springer India, in co-publication with Indian Academy of Sciences ISSN 0256-2499 (Print) 0973-7677 (Online) Issue Volume 20, Number 1 / February 1995 # NASA and Engineering Integrity Michael D. Griffin Administrator National Aeronautics and Space Administration Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium American Astronautical Society 21 October 2008 # Implementation of Asset Integrity Management System Muhammad Abduh PetroEnergy Magazine April – May 2008 Edition http://abduh137.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/aims/ # API RECOMMENDED PRACTICE 584 Integrity Operating Windows FIRST EDITION, MAY 2014 # Pressure Equipment Integrity Incident Investigation API RECOMMENDED PRACTICE 585 FIRST EDITION, APRIL 2014 # Process Integrity in Engineering and Manufacturing indle EditionJim Williams (Author) Published on Amazon.com

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