Joel L. Andreani

Mr. Andreani has worked in various refinery technical service groups, providing engineering support to refineries and chemical plants worldwide. Mr. Andreani performs Fitness-For-Service (FFS) evaluations; code compliance calculations; interpretations for storage tanks, piping, pressure vessels, structures, and foundations; engineering specification and design support; engineering training development; and project consulting on a wide variety of refinery and chemical plant equipment.

Mr. Andreani has also managed company specifications and training programs. He has developed over 50 design, fabrication, inspection, and testing specifications for tankage, piping, and structures, and specifications for wind, seismic, and blast load criteria for petrochemical equipment and structures for U.S. and international petrochemical facilities. Mr. Andreani has also developed mechanical integrity practices and MI implementation programs. He performs design reviews for tankage, piping, pressure vessels, structures, and foundations as part of major refinery capital projects, including expansions, revamps, and de-bottlenecking projects. He has also developed and managed training programs for refinery and petrochemical plant engineers and has instructed courses in aboveground storage tank design and evaluation; FFS, including the API University API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 Fitness-For-Service course; and Risk-Based Inspection (RBI). Since 2003, Mr. Andreani has served on the Design subgroup of the API Subcommittee on Aboveground Storage Tanks (SCAST). He is an expert in tank settlement and RBI assessment of storage tanks. Mr. Andreani was one of the primary developers of the current edge settlement procedures in Appendix B of API 653. He was the leader of the API project that re-wrote API 653 Appendix B rules on differential shell settlement. Mr. Andreani was also involved in the development of the current tank module in the API RBI software. He has performed a number of RBI assessments of storage tanks, including comprehensive evaluations of tanks that have combined FFS and RBI assessments to develop inspection plans. Most recently, Mr. Andreani has developed new Tank RBI procedures for API 581 and for storage tank designs outside the limitations of API 581. Mr. Andreani also served as a member of the Design subgroup of the ASME B31.3 Process Piping Code Committee from 1993-2000.