
Explore how to prepare manual and semi-automatic welding procedures for oil and gas pipelines, covering API 1104 scope, essential variables, matrix creation, PQR and BWRS, and required mechanical tests.
Understand how API 1104 shapes welding procedure specifications for oil and gas pipelines, detailing process, materials, joint design, filler, shielding gas, preheat, cooling, and post weld heat treatment.
Learn to build a wps matrix that captures base material, diameter, thickness, process, and filler metal from drawings and codes, reducing essential variables and PCRs.
Explore essential variables per API 1104, section 5.4.2 and table one, including category one and category two, and 15 items covering welding process, base material, joint design, and backing.
Identify non-essential variables in welding procedures, contrast them with essential variables in API 1104, and outline diameter ranges, welding direction, time between passes, clamps, cleaning, and heat input.
Discover how to prepare a PQR by three stages: verify the test coupon and scope, record welding variables, and conduct post-weld nondestructive and mechanical tests with documentation.
The latest edition of API 1104(22nd edition) has major changes in its structure and has included the requirements of Standard WPS qualification and hardness/toughness WPS qualification for first time, which you will learn in details in this course.
The course will take you in a journey in which you will learn the entire process of welding procedure planning till approval and starting of production.
In this course you will learn;
Introduction about the API 1104 and its scope
WPS Specification information
How to prepare WPS matrix
Standard WPS and Hardness/Toughness WPS Essential Variables
Non-essential variables for Manual and semi-automatic welding processes
How to fill WPS matrix
How to prepare Preliminary Welding Procedure Specification(pWPS),
How to prepare Procedure Qualification Record (PQR) and applicable mechanical tests (Tensile test, Nick break test and Bend test)
How to prepare Welding Procedure Specification (WPS)
In just two hours of this course, you will gain the knowledge of WPS preparation that can be obtained only through years of experience in the field of construction and fabrication of oil and gas facilities.
So, if you're looking to take your Welding Procedure preparation skills to the next level by incorporating the more technical aspects of your profession, then this is the class for you.