Hydrogen Damage in Refining and Petrochemicals: Learning from Failures

You can learn a lot from failure – but it is way better to learn from other’s failures than your own. This on-demand online course uses laboratory failure analysis cases to share lessons learned of how hydrogen damages steel within refineries and petrochemical facilities. In particular, case studies are used to review the conditions that cause hydrogen damage, illustrate how each mechanism damages steel and summarizes the strategies used to prevent it. Where helpful, cases from other industries are shared. By seeing back-to-back cases of hydrogen-based damage, the subtleties of how hydrogen attacks steel will become further apparent. Case studies include the following damage mechanisms:

• Hydrogen Embrittlement (HE)

• Sulfide Stress Cracking (SSC)

• Delayed Cracking after welding

• Hydrogen Induced Cracking (HIC)

• Hydrogen Blisters

• Stress Oriented Hydrogen Induced Cracking (SOHIC)

• High Temperature Hydrogen Attack (HTHA)

This course includes:

• This course includes on-demand video lessons, comprehension checks, and a final exam

• CPD and PDH eligible, with a certificate provided upon completion

• Access for 12 months upon purchasing the course

• Slides are not available for this course

What You’ll Learn

By completing this course, participants should be able to:

• Understand and explain the conditions that cause HTHA, HIC, Hydrogen Blistering, SOHIC, SCC, delayed cracking and hydrogen embrittlement.

• Understand and visualize how the different hydrogen-based mechanisms damage steel.

• Better explain the high level strategies used to prevent hydrogen-based damage.

Who This Course Is For

This course is intended as add-on training for API inspectors and engineers already familiar with hydrogen damage such as HTHA, HIC, and SSC through API or MTI literature. Still, those new to these topics will find this course to be an easy to understand introduction to hydrogen damage. This course provides detailed information and illustrations that should prove valuable to:

• API Inspectors

• Corrosion Engineers

• Mechanical Engineers

• Process Engineers

• Maintenance Personnel

• Operations