Today at BTEC I continued working on more PF drawings for most of the day. Around the end of the day I went to BTEC's property to help the other two employees with what ever they needed. That job was mainly moving several large tree trunks into one pile to be taken away. The tree trunks were too big to carry or roll so we had to use the skid steer and that
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Today at BTEC I made more drawings for the entire day and finally finished what Hot Oil drawings I had by the end of the day and even started a few new files li
To begin the day I went straight to nearby property the BTEC owns for storing equipment and vehicles like the skid steer. The property BTEC owns is isn't the prettiest piece of land and my mentor wanted to make more room while also making it a little nicer using the skid steer. I was taught how to drive the skid steer to tidy up the field but plans where changed and I was only taught how to drive it without being able to use it. For the remainder of the day I drew pipeline segements
Today I made many more drawings for BTEC and I am getting into ones that are more complicated and I started learning how to read construction drawings instead of just segments of pipelines. Construction drawings can be used to clear any confusion in pipeline segment drawings such as the direction of flow or where they go to next.
Today I made several different drawings for BTEC again, I am mainly focusing on Hot Oil drawins. Which BTEC represents as HO in their drawings and data sheets. Besides Hot Oil there are almost a dozen other kinds of abbreviations to represent different types of pipelines: PG, GP, AV, RF, R, PF, and many more that I havn't memorized, as too which one means on paper that I do not know but they all represent the type of gas or liquid that runs through that specific pipe. For every different drawing there is its own drawing number such as HO-570, in this case, the way I understand it is that pipeline series 570 contains Hot Oil for some purpose on the plant. HO-570 is a way to designate what that drawing is both on the plant and on paper. The drawing number for each drawing is puller from its very specific line number such as 570-4"-HO-B1-CS-2" HH. I am not sure what every thing means but I know the beginning three numbers represents the specific line the first set of letters represents what that pipeline is carrying and the number in between the two represents what size the
Today I made 9 drawings for BTEC some simple and some incredibly extravagant.
Today wasn't much different from yesterday. Today all i had to do was so more verifications on pipeline segment drawings to make sure that they were all accurate according to the data that the operators of the machinery/plant recorded. By the end of the day i was finally able to finish the all of the drawings that I needed to verify
Today I was going to start the level 1 UT classes at BTEC however since one of the employees have already taught me most of the material for level one UT testing, they found it better to just give me a little review packet so that I might study in spare time. and at the end of the week they will give me a test to see what I have learned over my two weeks of being there. For the rest of the day I continued on checking and correcting every single drawing that has been done recently at BTEC.
Today I started more drawings for BTEC but only got so far on them until another employee got me started on something different. Somewhere along the way of entering all of the readings, temperatures and pressures there were a lot of mistakes that needed to be fixed. For the most part I am the person responsible for correcting these errors in the BTEC drawings such as where that particular line comes from, where it goes to, the design temperature and pressure (a.k.a. the temperature and pressure that that pipe was built to withstand), and the operating design and pressure (a.k.a. the temperature and pressure that that pipe was working at when the readings were taken. There are a lot of drawings that are wrong and it is my new job to make sure that they are not only just right but perfect even to the slightest digit.
Today was slow compared to the rest but it still had its exciting moments. For most of the day I was creating pipe segments in Autocad. I had gone out to plug a battery charger in to BTEC's skid steer and while I was, the business next door was working in their drive way and was driving a truck with their bucket raised up and drove straight into a power line, the power line popped and made a bright orange flash. The driver stopped not knowing what had happened and only heard the pop of the wire and assumed it was nothing so he kept driving, at which point i started raising my hands and yelling at him before he snapped all the way through but he did anyway. As the driver kept driving the truck, the power line pooped 3 more times with more orange bright flashes. the electricity from the power line made welding marks on the bucket of the truck. My mentor said the driver of the truck was lucky to be alive at the end of it all. for the remainder of the day I continued drawing more autocad pipe segments for my
Today at BTEC I started of I helped one of the employees to get equipment to some people working for BTEC in the field at a Railroad yard and was taught another testing methods that BTEC uses, Magnetic. MT (Magnetic Testing) uses a magnetic powder to spray onto a piece of metal where there is most likely wear on metal, then they use a strong magnet against the metal. The powder reacts to the magnet in such a way that the powder will reside in even the most microscopic cracks making them visible to the naked eye. MT doesn't test the metal's wear rate or how much of the metal has been worn down to certain inch like UT (Ultrasonic Testing) it only finds surface cracks in the metal. After that I helped my mentor take a tire off of a skid steer for repairs. For the remainder of the day I was introduced to Autocad a little more. Not only was learning about autocad and how incredible it is I was literally drawing, labeling, and doing the whole process of actual pipe at an actual facility in Texas.
On my second day at my internship I watched two safety videos, one on general safety and the other specifically about a deadly gas that BTEC sometimes encounters in the field called Hydrogen Sulfide and what to do if encountered. I helped my mentor to jump start a tractor to move some equipment but found that one of the tires had become unmounted from the rim. I spent the next two hours on the internet trying to find a tire repair service that would come to BTEC and remount the tire so that we can continue with out work. The remainder of the day I spent on a company computer Being taught how to use a program called Autocad. Autocad is a very advanced and extremely expensive program that BTEC employees use to draw segments of pipes from a plant in the third dimension on a computer. I was only taught how to draw straight lines (in the second dimension) in the program for the most partWith so much happening at once in this program there is more concepts than I could learn in the three weeks I will be here let alone one day.
Today I started my Internship with BTEC (Bird and sons Training Examinations and Consulting). When I arrived at the BTEC office this morning, I found that they begin their Mondays off with a safety meeting. At the safety meeting, the employees don't discuss certain safety concerns they discuss safety concerns in general even the smallest slip of the ice. After the safety meeting ended I took a pre-test on UT (Ultrasonic) testing and near the end of the LINK program I will take another test to show what I have learned. After the pre-test I began being taught really just the basics of UT testing with two different types of Ultrasonic testing machines. I was shown three different versions of ultrasonic testing methods: Single Element Transducer, Dual Element Transducer, and Angled Beam Transducer.
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