Fire Damage Screening Assessment
Fire Damage Screening Assessment
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I haven't yet looked at API579 for fire damage assessment. I'd like to avoid purchasing one right now. Is there any other available pipeline damage assessment guidance or checklist for screening oil and gas pipelines following a fire at a production field/facility? Events could range from a brush fire to a petroleum pool fire. Thanks for the help.





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You can buy five other standards and get pieces of it, or ...
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P.E. Metallurgy, Plymouth Tube
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Richard Feynman's Problem Solving Algorithm
1. Write down the problem.
2. Think very hard.
3. Write down the answer.
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What are the indicators that the heat has adversely affected the steel?
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During a fire event, it is critical to the recovery efforts to have video evidence of the event, showing the extent and duration of impingement. Stay out of the way of the first responders, and stay safe. But go to a safe location with a good vantage, and video record the fire, paying special attention to where the fire was and the impingement locations. Above certain temperatures, the colour of the steel won't change, so you may have to infer the temperature by other means - hence the video. And you're getting into the creep regime, so time at temperature is the important measure. Knowing whether equipment and piping was pressurized, or if the Emergency Shut Down (ESD) system depressurized it, is also important, because creep damage also needs stress at temperature and time.