Pipeline Maintenance and Mechanical

Module ID 63104-02: Explains how to read plot plans, P&IDs, piping isometric drawings, detail sheets, and machine drawings. Describes common components and symbols used in various drawings.

Module ID 63105-02: Introduces a variety of tubing, tubing materials, tools, and work practices used in the pipeline industry. Identifies the materials used in threaded piping systems. Describes the types and uses of screwed fittings.

Module ID 63106-02: Covers installation procedures for threaded, nonthreaded, and insulation fasteners used in the pipeline industry.

Module ID 63108-02: Identifies types of manual, electric, hydraulic, and pneumatic valve actuators used in the pipeline industry. Covers storage and handing, installation, and preventive maintenance procedures for these actuators.

Module ID 63109-02: Covers the applications, removal procedures, and installation procedures for dynamic and static seals and O-rings. Also identifies gaskets and gasket materials and explains the procedures for laying out, cutting, and installing gaskets.

Module ID 63201-02: Discusses pneumatic system safety, characteristics of gases and how they are compressed, pneumatic transmission of energy, and compressor operation.

Module ID 63202-02: Discusses hydraulic system safety and the basic principles of hydraulics, including Pascal’s law and Bernoulli’s principle. Explains the function of fluids, parts, pumps, and motors.

Module ID 63203-02: Introduces specialty tools and precision measuring tools and explains how to select, inspect, use, and care for these tools.

Module ID 63206-02: Identifies and explains the use of pipeline meters including positive displacement, turbine, ultrasonic, massflow, vortex, and orifice. Identifies and explains the use of provers including tank provers, traditional pipe provers, and small volume pipe provers.

Module ID 63207-02: Identifies main-line and feeder line pumps including centrifugal, rotary, reciprocating, and metering pumps. Explains net positive suction head and cavitation. Outlines general procedures for pump installation.

Module ID 63208-02: Identifies gas compressors used in the transmission of gas through pipelines. Also explains the function and operation of compressors and identifies the auxiliary equipment used with compressors.

Module ID 62301-02: Explains preventive and predictive maintenance and general maintenance on rotating machinery. Discusses gas compressors and maintaining pumps and prime movers.

Module ID 63209-02: Identifies friction and antifriction bearings, bearing materials, and bearing designation. Gives procedures to remove, troubleshoot, and install bearings.

Module ID 63210-02: Explains the function and advantages of mechanical seals. Identifies parts and types of mechanical seals. Includes procedures for removing, inspecting, and installing mechanical seals.

Module ID 63211-02: Identifies types of drivers that provide power to rotating equipment on pipelines. Explains how to inspect and replace drivers, replace bearings and seals, and perform preventive maintenance.

Module ID 63301-02: Identifies inspection requirements for an equipment pad, requirements for equipment base preparation, and procedures for inspecting equipment prior to installation. Also explains how to prepare equipment prior to installation, the installation process for rotating equipment, and the procedures used to relieve pipe stress from rotating equipment.

Module ID 63302-02: Describes types of equipment misalignment and how to identify and correct them. Explains how to perform conventional, rim and face indicator, reverse dial indicator, and laser alignments. Also identifies other laser alignment procedures that may be completed on the machinery trains depending on equipment needs.

Module ID 63303-02: Covers common causes of vibration and how to minimize them. Includes vibration monitoring techniques, vibration analysis techniques, vibration test equipment, and how to field balance machines.

Module ID 63304-02: Identifies the preventive maintenance requirements, inspection requirements, and common troubleshooting techniques for pumps used in the pipeline industry. Also gives general guidelines for preparing a pump for shutdown, removing a pump from a pipeline system, disassembling a pump, installing the pump after the pump has been reassembled, and preparing the pump for startup and operational check after maintenance or repair has been completed.

Module ID 63305-02: Identifies the typical lubrication system components, preventive maintenance requirements, and common troubleshooting techniques for a gas compressor. Also gives general guidelines for preparing a gas compressor for shutdown and repair, isolating a gas compressor from a pipeline system, repairing rotary and reciprocating gas compressors, and preparing a gas compressor for startup and operational check after maintenance has been completed.

Module ID 63309-02: Explains how to inspect, maintain, and repair metering devices and prover systems. Also describes the waterdraw calibration procedures used to calibrate and verify the reliability of prover systems.