Metal Analysis Group is an API-U approved training provider of the training course:

Guidelines and Application to API Recommended Practice 578

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This course is designed to introduce individuals responsible for the purchase, use, or control of metallic alloy materials, as well as the owner/user, vendors, fabricators, and contractors to the guidelines for a material and quality assurance system.

It will instruct them how to verify that the nominal composition of alloy components within the pressure envelope of a piping system is consistent with the selected or specified construction materials in an effort to minimize the potential for catastrophic release of toxic or hazardous liquids or vapors.

In addition, course materials will review guidelines for material control and material verification on ferrous and nonferrous alloys during the construction, installation, maintenance, and inspection of new and existing process piping systems covered by the ASME B31.3 and API 570 piping codes.

Course topics include:

1. Understanding and applying API Recommended Practices and Guidelines: What it says and what it means
2. Develop a better understanding of OSHA’s National Emphasis Program and Process Safety Management
3. Applying “Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices” for Material Inspection and Verification
4. Understand the purpose and use of a material verification program and how to create and implement an MVP
5. Understand XRF and SPARK and LIBS-OES test methods, how they work, and how to use them properly and safely
6. Understand how to read laboratory results and instrument results.
7. Demonstrate proper XRF testing procedures
8. Demonstrate proper SPARK and LIBS-OES testing procedures

Who should attend?

Anyone in the petrochemical industry responsible for alloy verification or positive material identification (PMI) looking to improve their skills, advance their career, and/or comply with API RP 578. Including but not limited to:

• Students enrolled in API 570 classes
• QA/QC inspectors
• Maintenance supervisors
• Warehouse managers
• Inspection testing companies
• Fabrication shops
• Oil & Gas reliability departments

Courses are available online and in person.

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