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Course Description
The overall purpose of this course is to provide engineers and senior technicians in their relevant fields with the applied knowledge that enables them to efficiently select, maintain or repair different types of valves, including control valves and their accessories. The course provides a comprehensive overview about the basis behind the selection of different types of valves used in oil & gas industry. In addition it covers valves selection, installation, testing & carry out preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance on valves. Emphasis is placed on selection, sizing and maintenance of different valve types.
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Training Objective
Target Audience
Maintenance & Technical Support Engineers & Supervisors, Maintenance & Technical Support Engineers & Supervisors, Senior Foremen Mechanical Maintenance, Engineering, inspection and technical staff in pining designs, process, operations and maintenance, Engineers and working operators in field of pipelines, The course provides a wider knowledge to piping designers, engineers, technicians, foremen inspectors & repair-men.
Training Methods
Daily Agenda
Classification of Valve Types
- Valve functions and characteristics
- Basic valve parts
- Valve body attachments
Valve Selection for Petroleum & Process Industry
- Principles of valve operations
- Specifications
- Body materials and dimensions
- Pressure and temperature
- Wear, galling, and leakages
- Flow characteristics & noise
- Sizing, including actuators
- Which valve for on-off service?
- Which control valve to specify?
Specification & Applied Codes
- API
- ASM
Critical Valve Choices
- Internal working
- End connection
- Bonnets
- Actuator
- Acceptance procedure for in-house valve testing and verification
- Noise abatement for valves
Installation Maintenance Guidelines
- Cleaning and inspection guidelines
- Cautions for every type
- Fouling leakage
- Wear leakage
- Maintenance of special valve types
- Lining up valves for a system start up
- Using plant procedures and drawings
- Lubricating valves
- Valve inspection and cautions
- Repair and replacement of valve parts
- Corrosion control in valves - diagnostic tools
- Safety aspects
Preventive Maintenance
- General philosophy
- Upside
- Downside
- CLAIR activities
Predictive Maintenance
- Monitoring techniques
- Twelve essential steps in building a PDM program
Valves Problems and Troubleshooting
- High pressure drop
- Pressure recovery characteristics
- Cavitations in valves
- Incipient and choked cavitations
- Flow curve cavitations index
- Cavitations - elimination devices
- Flashing versus cavitations
- Flow choking
- High velocities
- Water hammer
- Surge protection
- Check valve slamming
- Noise problems
- Clean air standards
- Life loading
Packing for fugitive-emission control
- Troubleshooting the control valves
Accreditation
BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.
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