Skip to main content

What is Risk Based Inspection, PoF, and CoF?

Risk Based Inspection

API 580 - API 581

RBI is an often-used word in inspection. 


RBI stands for Risk Based Inspection. 


RBI tries to answer the following questions -

1. Which part should I expect first? 

2. Which part is the most critical?

3. How should I start inspecting it first?

4. Where is the highest risk of failure? 

5. Where is the order of risk?


PoF is Probability of Failure.

This is answered by the following questions -

1. How likely is the failure to occur?

2. How frequently will the failure occur?

3. Is there an approximate time to failure or the number of failures per time?


CoF is Consequence of failure

Consequence defines how dangerous the failure will be to the resources around it.

This implies the following questions -

1. What kind of failure will it be?

2. Will it damage the components?

3. Will it be harmful to human life?

4. Will it affect/contaminate the environment?


The risk is calculated as follows -


Risk =  PoF x CoF


The number designated to Pof and Cof depends on the process and the inspecting party.


This gives an approximate ranking of which area is at the highest risk and should be inspected first.


The standards used for these are API 580 and API 581.


For a more detailed explanation, check out the video below -

                   


To know more about "CORROSION LOOP", click here!





😀Happy learning!😀


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

What is a Corrosion Loop - PART 2 - EXAMPLE

How to prepare a corrosion loop? To prepare a corrosion loop, the person in charge will look at the overall picture and answer the following questions - 1. What is the process? 2. What are the components? 3. What are the materials for each component? 4. What are the common features among them? 5. Where does the commonality end? -  This is important as that will mark the beginning of a new corrosion loop. 6. Can I use the same inspection procedure for all of them? 7. Do they corrode/get damaged in the same manner due to the same reasons? WATCH THE VIDEO FOR A DETAILED EXPLANATION -       Read part 1 here! https://corrospective.com/ 😀Happy learning! 😀

Electrochemical testing - part 3- What does an ammeter do?

 Electrochemical testing - 3 - Ammeter Poll Question WITH Answers: Description: Tafel polarization is a potentiodynamic test, where the potential is changed at a certain mV/time rate. The changes in the current flow occurring due to the potential change are measured using the ammeter. The ammeter is connected between the working electrode and the counter electrode. It is NOT connected to the reference electrode in any way . Check out the video for a detailed explanation Check out the previous parts here - PART 1 PART 2 For concise and focusSed courses, check out the website below! https://corrospective.com

Self-plagiarism..aka..Can I copy paste my own stuff in my research paper?

As students and professionals, report/thesis writing is an important task that requires quite a bit of effort. If we are into publishing our work, we have to be more careful as to how we arrnage and present out work. Usually we tend to write several reports and some of the material may overlap. With the new plagiarism software, one may doubt whether we can directly use our work. After all we wrote it. Plagiarism can be a direct copy-paste from your own previous work or from literature. It is a serious issue especially because it is now easy to do it using software. There are two main points to remember in this case. Point # 1 - Copying from your own previous work. When writing a manuscript which has experimental, theoretical, or mathematical components from a previous work of your own, avoid using entire sections verbatim. Such instances may show up as plagiarism during checks by the publishers. There is also a noticeable difference between the language of these sections and that of t...