Mechanical plant consultancy
Improving asset safety and reliability
Phased approach to
ageing plant assets
Prioritisation of inspection
Specific detailed inspection
plans
Provision and management
of advanced inspection
Leading experts in damage
evaluations
Modern metallurgical testing
and analysis facilities
Advanced fitness for service
assessments.
Effective management of ageing
plant assets
Effectively managing ageing plant assets across your site is critical to
ensure continuing safe and reliable operation.
Within current commercial constraints, correctly prioritising appropriate inspection and
documentation and analysing results to justify the required remedial actions are essential.
Specialist advice and independent assessment can assist in providing this across the site
providing key benefits to the operators and owners of critical, high-value assets.
Edif ERA has broad experience from detailed inspection planning and management to
fitness for service and remaining life assessments. Our consultants have comprehensive
knowledge of many damage mechanisms that can be found through planned inspections
and failure investigations.
Edif ERA has a phased approach to ageing plant assets in order to optimise the
complete process.
Our projects can cover all phases or just provide specialist help at the stage you
most need it.
Asset experience includes:
Combined cycle plants Pipework

Conventional boilers Fired heaters

Heat exchangers Offshore structures

Columns and reactors Storage tanks.

Edif ERA systematic approach has six phases that can be
tailored to meet our customers requirements.
The phases are:
Phase 0 Initial prioritisation
Define life management objectives, establish strategy and
identify plant assets to be assessed on a risk basis.
Phase 4 Implement monitoring and inspection strategy
If a satisfactory remaining life is indicated after Phases 1 and 2,
or after a successful Phase 3 repair, a component may be
returned to service
Appropriate monitoring is recommended and re-inspection
intervals advised.

Phase 1 Review of plant and operation

Review design and inspection, maintenance and operational
history of the plant/unit/component and identify critical items
using a risk-based approach
For each component identified, a code-based calculation of
life consumption is performed and the operational history
is reviewed
If no significant factors are identified, the component can be
left in service under a monitoring programme, otherwise an
inspection scheme is defined.

Phase 2 Inspection-based assessment

Implement the inspection defined in Phase 1 when access to
the plant is available
Apply standard or advanced non-destructive evaluation (NDE)
Phase 5 Strategy for replacement or retirement
procedures together with in-house on-site metallographic
If the Phase 3 assessment indicates that no further refinement
investigation as required
of the assessment is possible and that repair is either
Provide predictive evaluation of all data from Phases 1 and 2.
impossible or uneconomic, Edif ERA will recommend strategies
for replacement or retirement
Phase 3 Refine fitness for service assessment: repair, replace
or retire Impartial advice can be given on the risk of continuing operation
until a replacement component can be obtained.
When a defect is found, or there is an indication that a component
will not survive for the required period, Edif ERA can complete
advanced fitness for service calculations from level 1 through to
level 3, using an in-house multi-discipline team of engineers
Independent recommendations can be made for repair, replace
or retire.

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