Commissioning & Troubleshooting

The timely completion of the commissioning process is often crucial in process plant development and this course aims to help the commissioning manager to achieve the desired result. It starts by looking at critical design stages, such as HAZOP's and commissioning plans, and identifies where and how commissioning considerations should be included.

The organisation of the commissioning team is reviewed along with the necessary support functions together with an analysis of commissioning strategy and causes of problems and outages.

A review follows of pre-commissioning activities, such as integrity checking, flushing and cleaning and pre-operational checks with conclusions recorded on punch lists and this is extended to cover a range of equipment including vessels, rotating machinery, and instrumentation, control and electrical.

Safety and accident prevention is of primary importance in all these activities and this is stressed throughout the course with sessions on job safety analysis, risk assessment and safety reviews.

Finally the course examines trouble-shooting and problem-solving approaches, looking at methods of testing hypotheses and avoiding expensive solutions.