API
API 580
Risk Based Inspection
The methodology for planning inspection by risk: likelihood of failure from damage mechanisms and condition, consequence from inventory and location, and the use of the two together to decide where effort goes.
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Where it is applied on this site
- Inspecting and repairing structures — the other forty yearsCivil & Structural
- Risk-based inspection — deciding what to inspect, and how oftenMechanical
- Corrosion loops and piping circuits — the two groupings an RBI study is built onMechanical
- Corrosion control documents — writing down why the plant corrodesMechanical
- Integrity operating windows — limits that protect the metal, not the productMechanical
- Special piping components — the places that do not corrode like the pipeMechanical
- Running an RBI assessment — from data to an inspection plan that happensMechanical