抄録
Recently, Risk Base Maintenance (RBM) or Risk Base Inspection (RBI) becomes popular and already applied to power industries and petrochemical industries in USA and Europe, and also in Japan. But they are not applied to chemical plant so much because chemical plant is relatively complex, generally, and handles various kinds of materials. Therefore, database of the failure of construction materials and properties of fluid are not enough for application of RBI to chemical plant. In this paper, the procedure to apply RBI to chemical plant is explained based on Semi-quantitative evaluation of API Publication 581. Especially, there is often the case that construction materials of equipments and fluid are not included in the database of RBI. Useful advice and idea is also provided.
