During HAZOP and Reliability Engineering studies facilitation, we observed that some participants experience difficulties in reading P&IDs. This therefore affects their ability to contribute more meaningfully to the studies and slows down the process as the facilitator will end up coaching participants. To overcome this barrier, we have developed a new five-day course to interpret P&IDs / Mechanical Flow Diagrams, Block Flow Diagram (BFD), Process Flow Diagrams (PFD) and more. This includes the understanding of symbols, flows and other aspects of process and related industry standard drawings, with real-life examples.
This training course is unique and is designed to teach participants not only on understanding engineering drawings and diagrams, but also basic process aspects and elements.
The target audience is oil & gas, chemical or other process industry Engineers and Risk Professionals, Operators, Supervisors and HAZOP participants, who can greatly benefit from this hands-on training course. The training course is presented by facilitators with extensive, practical experience.
The training course covers:
- Introduction to Engineering
- The application of scientific principles
- Intended function
- Design and development
- Structures, machines, apparatus and processes
- Economising of operation
- Safety to life and property
- Environmental aspects
- Asset Management
- Project Stages
- Management of Risk
- Cost benefit decisions
- Design Guidelines
- Sets of recommendations towards good practice in design
- Instructions to designers and developers
- Safety during design
- Inherent safety
- Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOP) principles
- Legislation and Regulations
- Industry codes and standards
- Management of risk
- Responsible Care®
- Drawings in Project Lifecycle
- P&IDs undergo several revisions during the engineering, procurement, construction and post-construction phase
- General parameters to consider when preparing for field reviews
- Redlining
- Management of Change (MOC)
- Flow Sheets
- Process Engineering is the conceptualisation, design and realisation of methods
- Mass and energy balance principles
- Engineering Drawings
- The graphical representation of components and assemblies, including projected views, cuts, sections, dimensions and tolerances, material specifications and surface finish
- The importance of Engineering drawings
- Preliminary Engineering Drawings
- Conceptual block flow diagrams (BFD’s) and process flow diagrams (PFDs), preliminary P&ID’s and plant/equipment layout drawings, conceptual control systems architecture and single line diagrams.
- Piping & Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID)
- Interconnection of process equipment and instrumentation used to control the process
- Information recorded
- Document control
- Symbols used
- Process Equipment
- Items associated with a process plant
- Equipment identifiers
- Vessels
- Tanks
- Pumps
- Heat exchangers
- Pipelines
- Arteries of industrial processes
- Materials
- Sizes
- Designations
- Valves
- Regulation, direction or control of a substance
- Coding
- Types
- Valve fitting
- Actuators
- Positioning
- Status indication
- Instrumentation: Process Control and Safety Systems
- Process control, statistics, positioning and measurement
- Instrumentation symbols
- Distributed Controls Systems (DCS)
- Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) principles
- Safety Integrity Level (SIL) principles
- Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) principles
- Instrument Air
- Pneumatic equipment, valves and controls.
- Pressure dew point / Particle size / Contaminants