Perform Process Line-up

Course details

This competency unit provides the participants with the fundamental and practical understanding on how to prepare materials, equipment and utilities to start up a production process. This competency unit covers the skills and knowledge for field personnel who are required to perform process line up.

Course Outline

Prepare to carry out a production process

• Relevant regulations, safe working practices and procedures required within the work area (PPE, environmental, emergency response and codes of practice) the implications of statutory and organizational requirements
• Safety, risks and hazards related to line up
• Objective of a line up, how to achieve this objective safely and correctly
• Functions of process control, including instrumentation and logic work to achieve safe and steady start up
• Procedures for determining the normal operating parameters and associated specifications such has pre-line up check, line up and post-line up
• Processes that are taking place, conditions and the effects of changes, including chemical and physical properties
• Plant, equipment and process, how they link to other plants and systems
• Procedures for accessing and interpreting drawings regarding the plant and equipment
• Procedure for communications with colleagues, supervisors, managers, maintenance disciplines

Prepare equipment and utilities for a production process

• Procedures for determining the effect of equipment internals upon the
• process system (electrical stop switches, condition monitoring setting)
• Correct start up settings and valve/damper positions
• Procedures for determining the correct modes for equipment (electrical
• start up sequence) auto or manual
• The effects of loss of any equipment upon the process start up
• Procedures for interpreting utilities and services essential in the plant
• Effects of loss of any utility and services
• Plant and equipment layout and its connection with other plants
• and systems
• Effects of changes in normal conditions during start up

Prepare Materials for a production process

• Relevant regulations and procedures required within work area
• Identification of materials on plant (classes compatible and incompatible)
• Composition and properties of the feedstock, chemical additives, reagents and raw materials (to include flammability and toxicity)
• Use of materials for start up
• Cleaning of spillage and housekeeping procedures of waste from materials
• Procedures for determining the correct storage of materials prior to being used at startup

Start up a production process

• Whole startup operating procedures until optimum production (steady state)
• Effects of fire and gas control system during start up to steady running
• Chemistry and physics relating to the process specification
• Plant and equipment operating parameters
• Process and product variables (temperature, flows, pressure, level,
• density, PH)
• Maintenance failure/malfunctions (instrument, electrical and mechanical)
• Work area hazards, including spillages, uncontrolled emissions, H2S
• and other toxic substances and extreme weather conditions

Requirements

Candiates must be able to:

• Understand and speak English
• Demonstrate maths proficiency
• Successfully complete an assessment test conducted by CPTC

Target Audience

• New entrants to the chemical and process Industry
• Process technicians or operators looking for skills enhancement
• Personnel interested in joining the chemical and process industry

Will I recieve a certificate of completion?

A WSQ Statement of Attainment will be issued to each participant upon successful completion of the course of the course