General intro of EPERC organization and mission, presented by Claude Faidy at the first EPERC conference in Rome, April 2019

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General Introduction
Claude FAIDY
EPERC Chairman
Claude.faidy@gmail.com
Phone: +33 6 1410 11 19
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EPERC BOD
Andrea TONTI Fernando LIDONNICI
Piet VERBESSELT Guy BAYLAC
Bart TEERLINCK (Operating Agent)
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The major Actors In Pressure
Equipment Technology
Industry
Using Pressure
Equipment
Regulations
- European Directives
- Other International or
National Regulation
- Specific Regulation
Codes &
Standards
Organisation
EPERC R&D
and cooperation with other
R&D Organization Universities
EPERC
since 1995
under
"Renaissance"
since 2018 !

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Introduction
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Co-ordinate, Develop and Promote R&D for
the common technical interests and strategies of European Industry
with regard to Pressure Equipment Industry
Safety, Innovation and Competitiveness
through:
a) Research in relation with Industry needs, European institutions
and the international context,
b) Exchange with industry experience in PE design, materials
selection, fabrication, examination, use, in-service inspection,
monitoring, safe life assessment, dismantlement …
c) Improve the Codes and Standards by providing industry
research results, data and competitive rules, in close
connection with CEN Pressure Equipment Technical
Committees and through comparison with other International
Codes and Standards
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Strategic plan
 Identify PE Industry Needs and Innovation consequences
 Review PE existing Standards, Identify "Gaps and Needs"
for future uses and compare with similar "International
Rules"
 Justify the Background and State of the Art of existing
rules and data
 Develop focused R&D for different PE applications
 Develop and Manage "R&D Roadmaps" topic by topic
 Propose "Recommended Practical Guideline documents"
and "Typical Practical Examples" and "Training" for
knowledge transfer
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Technical Program Objectives
 2 key Standards:
– EN 13445 Part 1 to 5: Unfired Pressure Equipment
– EN 13480 Part 1 to 5: Metallic industrial piping
 Conformity presumption with European PE Directive
 Many other PE Standards will be concerned (30 CEN PE TC)
 New topics not cover to-day by EN standards
 International Competitiveness
– In Europe
– Outside Europe by comparison with International Practices
 Other aspects that needs R&D
– Enlarge the Scope of existing standards
– Check all justification of existing or new rules availability
– Assure Regularly State Of the Art level of each PE EN Standards
– Connect Design-Fabrication with Operating Conditions, Life
Evaluation and Surveillance in Operation
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EPERC Organization
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Board of Directors (BOD) Communication,
Documentation,
Newsletters
and website
Members
(and Guests or Visitors)
Regular Thematic Task Group (TG) 1 to 20…
with a TG Chairman in charge of TG management, a group of
members, a charter and a list of potential R&D projects
Periodic Thematic Seminars
around existing active TG or New Topics, to develop State of the Art
achievement and discuss potential needs for new programs
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on present and future Pressure Equipment Technical Activities status
and associated needs to support:
"Safe, Competitive and Innovative Pressure Equipment"
and Renewable Industries
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Examples of EPERC R&D Topics
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Some examples of basic questions:
- Design rules: non linear, fatigue, corrosions…
- Base metal, Welds, Dissimilar welds
- Bolted flanges and Leak Tightness
- Rupture Analyses and Margins
- NDE and Inspection new techniques
- Inspection and Surveillance Programs
- Flaw Evaluation
- Repair techniques
- Requalification- Proof Test
- Risk based approaches… Some Industry Sectors using PE
 High Pressure "Pressure Equipment"
 High Temperature "Pressure Equipment"
 Low temperature "Pressure Vessels and Piping"
 Hydrogen "Pressure Equipment"
 New materials, including non-steel materials
 Non-Metallic materials (HDPE…)
 New Fabrication – Welding – NDE techniques
 Petro-chemical industries specific needs
 High Safety Requirements, as nuclear, bio, car,
space or aeronautic…
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- Comparison with others
- Gaps and Needs identification
- R&D Road Map definition
- R&D programs management:
• Reports based on existing
knowledge,
• Recommended practices and
validation,
• Dedicated Program with an
experimental part…)
What are
the Priorities ?

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 More than 60 presentation
 Large participation, more than 90 international participants
 Abstract of presentation on the USB Key of the Conference
 Papers
– 1 month after the conference to EPERC Conference participants
– after Authors agreement and EPERC Copyright
 Questionnaire to express your interest
– Your views on "Gaps & Needs" for new PE Standards developments
– To join or support any EPERC Thematic TGs
– To propose topics for 1 or 2 day EPERC Seminar
– Your first comment on this 1st conference
 Questionnaire Synthesis will be presented by EPERC-BOD at the end
of Conference Panel on:
"Gaps and Needs for Safe, Innovative and Competitive PE"
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Back to the registration
desk before Wednesday
morning break

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Use the Questionnaire to express your views
and release it to Registration Desk
before Wednesday morning break