Webinar: Small-bore Piping Vibration Inspection Program Development – Inspection, Measurement, Assessment, Risk Ranking, and Practical Mitigation
Small-bore Piping Vibration Inspection Program Development – Inspection, Measurement, Assessment, Risk Ranking, and Practical Mitigation
Thursday, November 16, 2023 11:00AM - 12:00PM EST
Presenters: Michael F.P. Bifano, Ph.D., P.E.
Please note that registration for this webinar is limited to owner-users and current E2G clients only.
In this webinar, we will explore the following key topics:
- Measurement Techniques: Discover the methods and tools used for accurate vibration measurement in small-bore piping systems.
- Assessment and Severity Triage: Learn how to evaluate and prioritize vibration findings, including insights into forthcoming API 579, Part 15 guidelines. What is the value of performing higher levels of analysis?
- Practical Mitigation Strategies: Get recommended practical approaches on when and how to use bolted bracing and/or gusseting versus redesign. Answers to the question, “should everything be braced/gusseted”?
- Risk Ranking of Findings: E2G will share their relative risk ranking used to prioritize mitigation of findings and reduce the overall risk to operating units. This guidance is provided as a starting point and can be customized to each client’s risk tolerance.
- Identifying Common Locations: Understand typical areas where vibration issues tend to emerge, enabling you to target your inspections effectively.
Using case studies and examples, this webinar will delve into critical topics such as ideas on how to implement a small-bore connection survey program, starting with locations to focus, survey techniques and measurement strategies, how to assess severity and perform a relative risk ranking of findings, and lastly mitigation of those findings. Attendees will gain comprehensive knowledge to enhance practices and establish a robust small-bore inspection program for their organization. Register today to secure your spot!
An E2G team member will manually review each registration. Upon approval, you will receive a personalized Zoom link shortly before the start of the webinar. Please note, if you register with a non-corporate email address, your registration will be automatically denied.
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About the Presenter
Dr. Bifano is a consultant in the chemical and petrochemical industries performing fitness-for-service (FFS) evaluations of in-service equipment using the rules of API 579-1/ASME FFS-1. He is the Team Leader of the Rotating Equipment, Vibration, & Dynamics Team and serves as the E2G Technical Authority on vibration measurements, diagnostics, and piping and structural vibration fatigue assessments.
He is a voting member of the API 579 FFS Committee and one of the lead authors of the upcoming API 579 Part 15 methodologies on the assessment of Piping Vibration. Additionally, Dr. Bifano specializes in transient thermal-mechanical fatigue analysis, computational fluid dynamics, elevated temperature creep and creep-fatigue simulations, and fracture mechanics using analytical and computational techniques.
Prior to joining E2G, Dr. Bifano worked as a graduate research fellow in the Nanomechanics Laboratory at Case Western Reserve University. He has published multiple papers on guided wave vibrations and the role of wave confinement effects on heat transport and thermal properties of nanomaterials.
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