Design, Inspection, And Maintenance Concrete Structure In Petrochemical Plants
Course Code: EM53
Course Objective
- The participants will be provided with detailed course material and will be familiarized with various features on concrete construction in petroleum projects.
- The engineer will be familiar with any problem and its solution in the concrete structure in the petrochemical industry and its causes of failure.
Target Audience
- Construction supervisors
- Civil engineers
- Inspectors
Course Outline
Day 1
- Introduction
- Loads that affect the structures
- Loads that affect the pipe rack, tanks
- Dead load and live load
- Wind load and seismic load
- Pipes loads on piperack
- Different between ACI and BS in design
- Pipeline support s design
Day 2
- Principal of design foundation under machine
- Concrete tanks in Gas processing
- Design of foundation under (separator, KOD, static equipment)
- Concrete production and quality assurance
- Concrete properties
- Portland concrete, slag and fly ash properties
- Properties of admixtures and concrete mixes
- Principles of concrete mix design
- Inspection, sampling and compliance testing
- Corrosion problem onsite
Day 3
- Protection of steel bars from corrosion
- Advanced technique to protect the steel bars
- CP system for steel protection
- Advanced method of steel protection
- Design the CP system
- Ways of inspection the concrete structures
- Diagnosis the problems in concrete structures
- Reasons of fails and cracks of concrete structure in process plant
- Case studies from petrochemical plants
- Case studies from general industries
Day 4
- Inspection and quality control of concrete
- Sampling and testing concrete on site
- Methods of test the corrosion
- Measuring the corrosion propagation
- Concrete structure evaluation
- Ways of repair the concrete structure
- Effective supervision of repairs
- Selection of materials cements, aggregates, additions and reinforcement
- Concrete mixes and specifications in repair.
- Methods of repair slabs, beams, columns and foundations
- Best ways of using epoxy in repair
- Case study for repair ring beam for tanks
- Case study for repair foundation
Day 5
- New modern method for repair
- Repair by using a steel sections
- CFRP for repair
- Principal of CFRP design
- Integrity management system
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