Eskom Webinar - Fitness-for-Service Case Studies

Eskom Webinar on Fitness-for-Service Case Studies

Time: 12pm-1.30pm, South Africa/10am-11.30am, BST, UK

 Fitness-For-Service (FFS) assessment is applicable to the entire life-cycle of an asset from design to decommissioning and replacement. FFS can be used to demonstrate that an asset will deliver its intended function, while simultaneously satisfying health and safety and environmental legislation. FFS is a sophisticated assessment to determine if an equipment can operate safely with defects present. FFS uses a combination of the following information to make this assessment: stresses, material properties, flaw dimensions and component geometry, as well as, service environments. It is essential that data used for the assessment is relevant and up-to-date to ensure representative conditions are considered. Any assumptions made in-lieu of the missing information will need to be justified and agreed with client. These FFS assessments offer a sound basis for decisions to run as-is, modify, repair, monitor, rerate or replace.

This presentation will give an overview of FFS and its relevance with respect to plant availability by focussing on specific challenges relevant to ESKOM. The aim is to provide an insight into how FFS can be used to reduce outages and increase plant productivity.

Speakers

Yin Jin Janin

Principal Project Leader – Fatigue Integrity Management

Yin Jin joined TWI in July 2012 as a project leader in Fracture Integrity Management Section. She manages projects that involve testing as well as the applications of ECAs of engineering structures especially those containing non-standard flaw geometry. She is a member of BS 7910n WEE37 main committee and Fracture Panel. She is also Codes and Standards Theme Lead of FESI. As a member of BS and ISO fracture toughness testing committee, she works closely with Henryk Pisarski to lead the development of testing procedures.

Yin Jin's history with TWI dated back to 2008 when she joined the Numerical Modelling and Optimisation Section as a Research Engineer through the Nuclear Engineering Doctorate Programme of University of Manchester. Her EngD work, under the supervision of Prof Stuart Lyon and Prof John Wintle, covered areas of corrosion and materials science, residual stress measurement as well as computational simulation of welds.

Prior to 2008, Yin Jin was a Principal Process Engineer at a foundry in Manchester, leading and developing techniques to improve casting process and product quality. Yin Jin is a Malaysian born Chinese and came from Borneo, Malaysia.