Life Assessment and Extension

Why AMCO?
AMCO Saudi Arabia has established expertise in the life
assessment of components from petrochemical and power
plants operating in the creep regime.

We can assess the remaining life of plant components What is Remaining Life Assessment (RLA)?
under operating conditions, offering real increases in safe
Remaining life assessment (RLA) is method and
operating life or increase in inspection intervals where
procedure used to predict the remaining life of
appropriate. Advanced warning of creep, creep/corrosion
equipment, structures or facility that have been in
and creep fatigue failures can avoid expensive unplanned
service for an extended period of time, usually
outages while avoiding undue maintenance or premature
close to or beyond the design life. The RLA offers a
replication surveys. Improved repair welds, including cold
possible tool to estimate the useful remaining
weld repairs, can reduce the delay in returning a plant to
lifetime and avoid premature failure or scrapping of
service and may be suitable for long term service, thus
the part.
avoiding replacement at the next scheduled outage.
What is Life Extension?
The determination of maintenance costs relating to Life Extension analysis is further step or effort to
equipment life extension requires an assessment of extend the calculated remaining life of the
remaining life in critical components. Maintenance equipment or facility until their economic life is
recommendations can then be made to extend met. The extension procedure could involve various
equipment life for a desired period. Analysis will include actions of maintenance, repair, replacement, or
recommendations for future preventative maintenance down rate decision making.
scheduling, operating condition improvements, repairs
and replacement.

Tel: +966 (0) 13 8907501 Address: P.O Box 70401, Al-Khobar-31952. K.S.A
Cell: +966 (0) 595566007 Email: sales@amco-consult.com
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 Life Assessment and Extension
Remaining Life Assessment technology can be used to assess:

Boiler components
Steam-turbine components
Combustion turbine components
Hydraulic turbine components
Pressure vessels
Welded structural components
Storage tanks
Pipes and pipelines

AMCO can provide a full Component Life Assessment service

Which can include the following -

On-site inspection using advanced NDE

Metallographic evaluation Related Services
Review of design drawings
Finite Element modelling and stress analysis Fitness For Service (FFS)
Remaining Life Assessment calculations Risk Based Inspection (RBI)
Development of inspection procedures Defect Assessment
Life Extension recommendations Condition Assessment
Weld repair (including advanced techniques for cold weld repair) Failure Analysis
Component replacements where appropriate Probabilistic Life Assessment
Critical Analysis

Address: P.O Box 70401, Al-Khobar-31952. K.S.A Tel: +966 (0) 13 8907501
Email: sales@amco-consult.com Cell: +966 (0) 595566007
Web: www.amco-consult.com Fax: +966 (0) 13 8907502