Users & Access Levels
Risk Adept supports role-based user accounts, each assigned a defined role that governs access across the application. Administrators can also apply time-based access restrictions when creating a new user.
Risk Adept
Risk-Based Inspection Software
API 581–aligned RBI for risk management, inspection planning, and asset life-cycle optimization.
by Petropardaz Arvand · One Step Ahead
Introduction
Built on more than a decade of hands-on RBI experience and aligned with API 581, Risk Adept addresses the operational needs of refinery and petrochemical facilities — an integrated platform for risk management, inspection planning, and asset life-cycle optimization.
Technical Specifications
Oracle Database
Oracle Database provides the backbone for high-volume RBI data. Its processing engine delivers fast, reliable data retrieval and risk calculation performance.
Security
Industry-standard security is built in throughout — secure HTTPS/SSL connections, protection against XSS, CSRF, and SQL injection, and robust user authentication.
Web-Based Platform
Enterprise RBI programs demand instant access and live data updates. Risk Adept is fully web-based — available through any browser with no separate installation.
User-Friendly Interface
Despite its calculation-intensive nature, Risk Adept offers a clear, visually refined interface that keeps RBI practitioners productive through extended work sessions.
Features & Capabilities
Management Tools
Strong management tooling is a must-have for any enterprise platform. Risk Adept delivers this through two dedicated areas:
- User Activity Monitoring: tracks the time and environment in which each user was active.
- Dashboard: statistical charts covering equipment counts by unit type, completed and remaining risk calculations, plus priority alerts for upcoming inspections and planning.
Data Import / Export
Deploying a risk-based inspection program means handling large volumes of data. Every module in Risk Adept supports Excel import and export, including blank templates for fast, structured data collection.
These Excel templates enforce validation rules on the data they accept, preventing errors before they reach the risk calculations.
Material Database
A pre-loaded library of oil & gas materials with the engineering properties RBI demands — sourced from recognized references and industry standards.
- Material Category (Carbon Steel, Low Alloy, etc)
- Allowable Stress
- Tensile Strength
- Yield Stress
- MDMT Exemption Curve
- Nominal Composition
- Heat Treatment
New materials can be added with project-specific properties. Key fields for each material include:
Corrosion & Damage Mechanisms
Identifying active damage mechanisms on fixed equipment is a core task for the corrosion specialist on any RBI team. Risk Adept automates this from mechanical, operational, and process inputs for each component, reporting results during the equipment risk calculation.
Covered mechanisms per API 581 are listed in the section below:
Asset, Inventory Group & Corrosion Loop Hierarchy
Risk Adept automatically builds separate tree structures for assets, inventory groups, and corrosion loops, giving users a clear overview of all data and fast access to any item.
Corrosion Loop
Beyond automatically identifying the active damage mechanisms on each component, Risk Adept groups components that share mechanisms into dedicated corrosion loops — determined automatically.
P&ID drawings can be imported directly and marked up with corrosion loop boundaries inside the software, with no external tools required. This keeps every related document and dataset in one place, with markups that stay easy to edit and remain fully interactive.
Inventory Group
By assigning components to inventory groups, Risk Adept automatically calculates the fluid mass held in each group from mechanical and process data. The base process mass can also be adjusted for cases where not every component is evaluated, adding the flexibility real projects need.
Inventory groups can also be marked up directly inside the software with no external tools required — keeping related documents and data together, with markups that are easy to edit and stay interactive.
Consequence Level 2
Level 1 consequence studies typically model the process fluid against one of the standard's Representative Fluids. This covers most cases, but not all — the following situations call for Level 2 consequence calculations instead:
- Two-phase fluids with a flammable, toxic gas phase and a major consequence
- Non-flammable, non-toxic hazardous fluids such as steam, acids, and some caustic fluids
- Fluids with no suitable Representative Fluid equivalent (air, nitrogen, etc.)
Risk Adept includes full Level 2 consequence calculations to cover every scenario a risk specialist may encounter.
TML / CML Markup
Inspection points can be defined and recorded directly on equipment schematics inside Risk Adept, storing every TML/CML point interactively without relying on separate drawing tools.
This section also supports data export, and every marked point stays linked to its inspection history in the database.
Inspection History
Inspection history is organized into four main categories, with three further subdivisions:
- External Inspection
- Internal Inspection
- Corrosion Monitoring
- Thickness Measurement
- Corrosion Coupon
- Corrosion Probes
- RBI Checklist
External and internal inspection forms can be customized on request.
Flexible Risk Settings
Per the standard, risk boundaries between High, Medium-High, Medium, and Low — for both probability and consequence of failure — should reflect each facility's financial policy. Risk Adept allows full threshold customization beyond standard defaults, with graphical positioning on the risk matrix.
Probability × Consequence
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Data Validation
Every collected data point is automatically checked before use. Valid data proceeds to the calculation; anything else generates a report identifying the value, the error, and its location. Validation covers:
- Smart detection of required data
- Presence checks
- Data type checks
- Format checks
Unit Converter
A built-in unit conversion tool — for temperature, pressure, and more — is available from anywhere in the software, removing the need for third-party conversion tools.
Corrosion & Damage Mechanisms(API 581)
1. Corrosion
Thinning
- Hydrochloric Acid Corrosion
- High Temperature Sulfidic and Naphthenic Acid Corrosion
- High Temperature H2S/H2 Corrosion
- Sulfuric Acid Corrosion
- Hydrofluoric Acid Corrosion
- Alkaline Sour Water Corrosion
- Amine Corrosion
- High Temperature Oxidation
- Acid Sour Water Corrosion
- Cooling Water Corrosion
- Soil-Side Corrosion
- CO2 Corrosion
- Atmospheric Storage Tank Bottom Corrosion
- Other Corrosion Mechanisms
Lining Damage
2. Stress Cracking
Caustic SCC
Amine SCC
SSC
HIC/SOHIC H2S
ACSCC
PASCC
CISCC
HSC-HF
HIC/SOHIC HF
3. External Damages
External Corrosion
CUI
External CISCC
External CUI CISCC
4. HTHA
High Temperature Hydrogen Attack
5. Brittle
Brittle Fracture
Low Alloy Steel Embrittlement
885 °F Embrittlement
Sigma Phase Embrittlement
6. Piping Mechanical Fatigue
Mechanical Fatigue in Piping Systems
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