Fourth Quarter of 2021

Release Date: December 17, 2021

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on this date.

RBI 580 and 581

Table 1. Resolved Issues

The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the Active page of RBI Evergreening workspace, when you generated the bulk recommendations for analyses of components linked to the same parent asset, the recommendations were not consolidated. This issue has been resolved. Now, when you generate the recommendations and select yes on the Generate Recommendations window, the Recommendations are consolidated based on Degradation Mechanism and Task Type.DE168063
Previously, in the Analysis workspace, when you added a Degradation Mechanism Evaluation in the Degradation Mechanisms section, the Controlling Corrosion Rate, Long Term Avg. Corr. Rate, and Short Term Avg. Corr.Rate fields were not populated. This issue has been resolved. Now, these fields are populated based on the source of Calculated Corrosion Rate field of the parent RBI Component.DE166076
Previously, when you accessed the Analysis workspace by navigating through the Process Unit workflow, the Inspection Plan hyperlink was not displayed. This issue has been resolved.DE165417

RBI 580

Table 2. Resolved Issues

The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, some fields in the RBI Criticality Analysis family displayed incomplete help content. This issue has been resolved. For more information on the list of fields updated for the help content, refer to KBA 000038624. DE167992

RBI 581

Table 3. Resolved Issues

The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when you loaded the RBI 581 ISO Risk Matrix workspace with more than 1,000 assets for a process unit, the risk values of the assets were not plotted. This issue has been resolved. Now, the maximum limit of assets has been increased to 10,000.DE169491

Release Date: October 8, 2021

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on this date.

RBI 580 and 581

Table 4. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
RBI Analysts can now carry out Risk Based Inspection on Functional Location and perform the following RBI analysis on Functional Location:
  • RBI-580 analysis
  • RBI-581 analysis
  • PRD analysis
  • Pipeline analysis

Additionally, the Functional Location supports the following functionalities:

  • Bulk evergreening
  • Export
  • Data loader
  • Inspection plan
  • Inspection Grouping
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Table 5. Resolved Issues

The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when you approved an Inspection Plan with a Consolidated or Superseded Master Recommended Action in the Not Required state, an action was erroneously created and linked to the Master Recommended Action. This issue has been resolved. Now, when you approve an Inspection Plan, no actions are created for Recommended Actions in the Not Required state.DE165764
Previously, an error occurred when you selected the Create New Corrosion Loop button while the corrosion loops were loading in the RBI Unit Summary workspace. This issue has been resolved. Now, the Create New Corrosion Loop button remains disabled for selection, until the corrosion loops are loaded on the RBI Unit Summary.DE162612
Previously, when the RBI Components were linked to a Corrosion Loop through Risk Based Inspection (RBI) Corrosion Loop data loader, Potential Degradation Mechanisms linked to the Corrosion Loop were not added to the RBI Components. This issue has been resolved.DE157768
Previously, when creating a new RBI Component, in the Create New RBI Component window, the values in the Component Type drop-down list box appeared in English regardless of your culture settings. This issue has been resolved. Now, the Component Type drop-down list box is populated with the values from the MI RBI COMPONENT TYPES system code table and appear in the language based on your culture settings.DE157760
Previously, the RBI Corrosion Loop table in the Unit Summary workspace took a long time to load. Now, performance improvements have been made to reduce the time to load the table. DE157692
Table 6. Obsolete Features

The following features are no longer available.

DescriptionTracking ID
The Asset Counts for Units query is deprecated. The query is no longer used to show assets associated with a process unit in the Process Units section of the Risk Based Inspection Overview page. However, the Process Units section continues to show the count of the associated corrosion loops.DE164828

RBI 580

Table 7. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
You can now export RBI Criticality Analyses to an excel format from either of the following workspaces:
  • The RBI Evergreening workspace
  • The RBI Analysis Export workspace

The exported file is in the Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 580 Data Loader template format. This provides the ability to modify the exported analysis data and re-import for easy bulk editing. To facilitate this enhancement, Export Analyses feature has been introduced.

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To enhance usability, when duplicating or evergreening an RBI Criticality Analysis, if the Source of Calculated Corrosion Rate field on the related RBI Component is set to Manual, then the Short Term Corrosion Rate and Long-Term Corrosion Rate field values are now copied to the new RBI Criticality Analysis.US466736
Table 8. Resolved Issues

The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, the import of data using Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 580 Data Loader failed if there were errors due to calculation validation. This issue has been resolved. Now, the RBI 580 Data Loader has been enhanced to issue warnings when calculation validation errors are present and allows the import of data to complete successfully.US487232
Previously, in the Degradation Mechanisms section of an analysis, in the Other Damage Mechanism Evaluation datasheet, the Probability Category drop-down list box was not populated for the following Damage Mechanisms:
  • 885 Embrittlement
  • Microbiologically Induced Corrosion
  • Refractory Failure
This issue has been resolved. Now, records for the probability categories 1-5, associated with each Damage Mechanism have been added to the Degradation Mechanism Evaluation Factors family.
DE157762

RBI 581

Table 9. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To improve usability, in the Global Preferences workspace of the RBI Admin Preferences page, Enable Release type calculation as per RFI-8388 is added. When this preference is selected, the Release Type calculation for RBI 581 Consequence Evaluations does not require the release mass to be greater than 10000 for the Release Type to be Instantaneous. This preference is not selected by default.US492953
You can now export RBI 581 Risk Analyses to an excel format from either of the following workspaces:
  • The RBI Evergreening workspace
  • The RBI Analysis Export workspace

The exported file is in the Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 581 Data Loader template format. This provides the ability to modify the exported analysis data and re-import for easy bulk editing. To facilitate this enhancement, Export Analyses feature has been introduced.

US483624
To enhance usability, when duplicating or evergreening an RBI 581 Risk Analysis, if the Source of Calculated Corrosion Rate field on the related RBI Component is set to Manual, then the Short Term Corrosion Rate and Long-Term Corrosion Rate field values are now copied to the new RBI 581 Risk Analysis.US466736
You can now calculate an RBI 581 Risk Analysis with the Representative Fluid field set as H2O (Water) on a Storage Tank Bottom component. To facilitate this enhancement, the H2O (Water) Representative Fluid record has been updated with a Dynamic Viscosity value. US453124
Table 10. Resolved Issues

The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, the import of data using Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 581 Data Loader failed if there were errors due to calculation validation. This issue has been resolved. Now, the RBI 581 Data Loader has been enhanced to issue warnings when calculation validation errors are present and allow the import of data to complete successfully.US487232
Previously, when calculating an RBI 581 Risk Analysis on an RBI Component with a Criticality Item Type of Storage Tank, the Financial Risk –RBI Date, Financial Risk –With Plan and Financial Risk –Without Plan fields did not consider the AST Environmental Cost. This issue has been resolved. The Financial Risk fields are now calculated using the Total Financial Consequence field in the associated RBI 581 Consequence Evaluation, which includes the AST Environmental Cost.DE164360
Previously, if the value of Culture field in your user settings was not set to English and you added an RBI 581 Thinning Degradation mechanism to an active RBI 581 Risk Analysis, you could not see the Corrosion Rate in the Corrosion Analysis section of the RBI 581 Asset Risk Report. This issue has been resolved.DE160127
Previously, the value in the Base Damage Factor field in the RBI 581 Brittle Fracture Damage Evaluation datasheet related to an RBI 581 Risk Analysis was calculated incorrectly for certain combinations of CET-Tref and Furnished Base Material values. This issue has been resolved.DE157767
Previously, the Tmin Calculations in RBI 581 for Component Type Storage Tank were based on the Geometry Type selected. This issue has been resolved. The Tmin formula for Storage Tank components has been updated to match the API specification.

For more information on how to identify the applicable assets that require a recalculation, refer to KBA 000037310.

DE157766
Previously, the Fracture Appearance Transition Temperature (FATT) field in 581-Low Alloy Steel Embrittlement degradation mechanism contained an incorrect Unit of Measure (UOM). As a result, the calculated value of the Damage Factor for the degradation mechanism was incorrect for a non-imperial user. This issue has been resolved. The field caption for Fracture Appearance Transition Temperature (FATT) has been modified to Delta Fracture Appearance Transition Temperature (Delta FATT) to indicate the correct UOM.DE157764
Previously, in the Picklist tab of RBI 581 data loader template, the following process fluids were not available:
  • Acid-HP
  • Acid-LP
  • Acid-MP
  • C1
  • C10(Kerosene)
  • C11
  • C12
  • C2
  • C3
  • C4
  • C5
  • C6
  • C7
  • C8(Gasoline)
  • C9
  • NH3

This issue has been resolved.

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Table 11. Obsolete Features

The following features are no longer available.

DescriptionTracking ID
The Fluid Viscosity table is deprecated and is no longer used to validate the representative fluid field on RBI 581 Risk Analyses for Storage Tank Bottom components. Now, the DynamicViscosity field in the Representative Fluids table is used for validation.US499819