Course Overview

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Introduction
The maintenance strategy for your aboveground atmospheric storage tanks is crucial to optimising the tank’s life and reducing its operational costs.

However, to have an effective maintenance strategy, you will firstly need to understand how the tanks were designed, how to ensure worker safety and how to clean and prepare your tanks for inspection. You will also need to have a detailed understanding of current technologies available for safe tank entry, how to recover valuable hydrocarbon from hazardous waste, minimise offsite disposal and maintain tank integrity while complying with environmental rules.

The issues are complex but the rewards are great. This highly practical and interactive four-day training course will give you the knowledge set to enable you to carry out your role much more effectively.

The course will go through the key challenges you face and provide best practice knowledge to overcome them. In particular, you will gain an understanding of:
• the latest developments in tank design and construction
• cost-effective maintenance strategies
• techniques which can extend the in-service period between inspections of your tanks
• better health and safety of personnel engaged in your tank refurbishment and cleaning projects
• optimal desludging and cleaning techniques

The course is packed with essential information including the most recent best-practice maintenance trends, a comparison of commercially available desludging technologies as well as the latest worker safety rules.

Course Timings
Registration will be at 7:30 on Day One. Each day will start promptly at 8:00 and finish at 15:30 with breaks forrefreshments and lunch at appropriate times.

Day One
Introduction To Storage Tank Design And Maintenance
Basic Tank Design Ideas
Tank Design With Reference To API 650
Non-Invasive Condition Monitoring
Developing An Effective Tank Maintenance Strategy
The Tank Cleaning Contract

Day Two
Worker Safety
Tank Desludging Without Man Entry
Site Establishment And Man-Entry

Day Three
Degreasing, High Pressure Water Jetting And Abrasive Cleaning For Inspection
Sludge Disposal Options
Optimising Oil Recovery From Sludge
Sludge Processing And Waste Disposal

Day Four
Adopting An Effective Sludge Control Strategy
Corrosion Mechanisms
Tank Lining System For Internal Corrosion Control
Tank Repair Methodologies
New Developments In Tank Design And Construction
Closing Q&A Session