Back in January 2019, I posted an article titled “Is API 570 your Piping Inspection/Repair RAGAGEP… Repair Requirements are now crystal clear” and this posting caused quite the stir with many of you. Most of you followed the code(s) and went and verified what I shared in the article, but as usual, I got a lot of negative “feedback” as if I were trying to sell my piping inspection services – the problem is SAFTENG does not offer piping inspection services so I wrote the article from a neutral position!
I write these articles to help those who need help to be able to better understand how real process safety works. But one of the referenced codes in those 2016 and 2019 articles is one that I have not written about and it has recently raised its head in another project… ASME PCC-2.
What does this little ASME code bring to the table and when should I be utilizing it?