INSPECTION GUIDELINES FOR HEAT EXCHANGERS

Heat exchangers play a crucial role in the oil and gas processing industry due to the thermal requirements involved in various processes. They are essential components that facilitate the efficient transfer of heat from one field to another, which is vital for maintaining optimal operating conditions, increasing energy efficiency, and ensuring the safety and reliability of oil and gas operations. Since two different or at times, the same process streams with two extreme temperature differences always have a high drive towards failure and capturing inspection findings. Therefore, special attention is always required to build up an inspection strategy over a history of long-running heat exchangers. Unlike other equipment in the industry, heat exchangers demand special and dedicated testing techniques to identify the failure and to ensure the equipment’s integrity. This text offers a general guideline for the inspection strategies on heat exchangers. The book is ideally suitable for novice or developing engineers from inspection & integrity backgrounds. The book covers the basic introduction and working mechanisms of various heat exchangers used in the oil & gas sector. It also covers various inspection programs, strategies, testing methods, inspection focusses, requirements, a preview of material selection, cleaning requirements, and so on. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of inspection coverage in simple language with some visual representations like flow charts, tables, figures, and pictures.