Pressure Equipment Engineering Masterclass

▸ Pressure equipment is the backbone of every refinery, chemical plant and petrochemical facility — and almost nobody learns it whole.

Most engineers pick it up in fragments. A vessel course here, an inspection standard there, a code they were handed on a project. The connections between them — the ones that actually matter — never get made.

This masterclass brings the entire discipline together: design, inspection, damage mechanisms, fitness-for-service, relief systems and welding quality, in one structured programme of over 43 hours across 232 lectures.

▸ What is inside — nine complete modules

• ASME VIII Div 1 — Pressure Vessel Design. Shell and head thickness, external pressure and buckling, nozzle reinforcement, joint efficiency, MDMT, MAWP, wind and seismic loads, materials

• ASME B31.3 — Process Piping. Fluid categories, allowable stress, wall thickness to 304.1.2, branch reinforcement, flexibility analysis and SIFs, components, fabrication and testing, supports and layout — 52 lectures with worked examples

• API 510 — Pressure Vessel Inspection. Inspector role, ASME VIII for inspectors, damage mechanisms, corrosion rate and remaining life, NDE, repairs, alterations and rerating, plus exam preparation

• API 570 — Piping Inspection. Piping classes and intervals, injection points, deadlegs and soil-to-air interfaces, thickness evaluation, risk-based inspection, repairs and rerating, plus exam preparation

• API 579 — Fitness-for-Service. Assessment levels, the Remaining Strength Factor, general and local metal loss, pitting, HIC and SOHIC, crack-like flaws and the Failure Assessment Diagram, creep and fire damage

• Pressure Relief Systems — API 520/521. Overpressure scenarios, device selection, the fire case, gas, liquid and two-phase sizing, the 3% inlet rule, backpressure and flare design

• Welding & NDE — ASME IX and V. Welding processes and metallurgy, WPS/PQR/WPQ qualification, PWHT and hardness, weld defects and acceptance criteria, VT, PT, MT, RT, UT and advanced PAUT and ToFD

• Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers. TEMA types and classes, thermal and mechanical design, materials and sour service, API 660 specification, fouling and vibration, plus four real failure case studies

• Fired Heaters & Furnaces. Heater configurations, radiant and convection design, API 530 tube mechanical design and Larson-Miller remaining life, combustion and draft, inspection and troubleshooting

▸ Why the integration matters

Studied separately, these subjects stay separate. Studied together, the connections become obvious: how a vessel is designed and then inspected, how the corrosion rate drives the next inspection date, how damage mechanisms govern the choice of NDE method, and how the design code, the inspection code and fitness-for-service interact at every run-repair-replace decision.

That integration is the whole point of a masterclass, and it is what you cannot get from five separate courses.

▸ What you get

• Over 43 hours of structured video across 232 lectures and 51 sections

• Two full practice examinations covering the complete programme

• Worked calculations throughout — not just theory

• Direct preparation for the API 510 and API 570 certification exams

• Lifetime access, mobile and TV access, and a certificate of completion

• Udemy's 30-day money-back guarantee

▸ Still growing

Modules covering storage tank design and inspection (API 650 and API 653), damage mechanisms (API 571) and the PED/PSSR regulatory framework are in production and will be added at no extra cost. Enrol now and you receive every future module included.

▸ Who this is for

Mechanical, integrity and inspection engineers who want the complete pressure-equipment picture in one place. Design engineers who need to understand inspection, and inspectors who want the design behind the code. Reliability and fixed-equipment engineers managing the full lifecycle. Project, process and EPC engineers who need broad, code-grounded fluency. And graduate engineers building a comprehensive foundation.

▸ No prior specialist knowledge is required. Every module builds its code context from first principles. Suitable both as a complete programme worked start to finish, and as a reference to dip into module by module.

Built by a practising Chartered Engineer with over fifteen years on safety-critical oil, gas and energy infrastructure projects.

Enrol now and learn the whole discipline, not the fragments.