ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Week

The programming focuses on regulatory, policy, market, and legislative issues affecting the North American water power industry. It includes educational programming, information exchange, and advocacy activities involving industry, government agencies, regulators, resource agencies, Tribes, and NGOs. Advocacy Day programming is intended to help industry representatives engage policymakers on Capitol Hill about water power policy priorities.

The Committee on Refinery Equipment is responsible for more than 220 standards that form the basis of the API Individual Certification and Process Safety Site Assessment programs. Technical subcommittees cover aboveground storage tanks; corrosion and materials; heat transfer equipment; inspection and mechanical integrity; piping and valves; pressure-relieving systems; refractory materials; electrical equipment; instruments and control systems; mechanical equipment; petroleum refining technical data; and API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 Fitness-For-Service. The meeting addresses consensus-based standards and best practices for downstream operations, equipment, process safety, inspection, mechanical integrity, materials, corrosion, piping, valves, controls, and refinery engineering. Participation is open to parties with a direct and material interest in the subject of a standard.

The technical program covers conventional and emerging power systems, including steam power systems (HRSGs, boilers, and steam turbines), gas turbines, concentrating solar power, geothermal energy, small modular reactors and advanced nuclear technologies, sCO₂ power cycles, advanced ultra-supercritical steam, and hydrogen and bulk thermal energy storage technologies. Topics include additive manufacturing, powder metallurgy hot isostatic pressing, advanced welding, cladding, fabrication processes, design approaches, material and welding qualification, standards development, and regulatory challenges. Component-specific issues include castings, forgings, blades, rotors, and valves. Materials and performance topics include creep, creep-fatigue, stress relaxation cracking, oxidation, corrosion, wear, erosion, high-temperature alloys and steels, failure analysis, life management, and fitness-for-service methodologies. Repair topics include weld repair, rejuvenation heat treatment, surface engineering, and refurbishment solutions. The conference program includes plenary sessions and breakout topical tracks. Accepted papers undergo peer review and are assigned DOIs. EPRI and ASM International jointly organize the conference.

The program brings together energy, industrial transformation, and advanced manufacturing, with cross-cutting themes of workforce development, standards, finance, AI and digital transformation, policy, and resilience planning. Roundtables, workshops, and demos are designed to address tradeoffs involving affordability, risk, standardization, and deployment speed. Program tracks include Powering Growth, with sample sessions on data-center power and cooling, new nuclear deployment, solar cost reduction, and scaling geothermal; Industry Reimagined, covering industrial heat electrification, next-generation steel, and EPC project-delivery costs and risks; Next-Gen Manufacturing, addressing hardware investment and bankability, additive manufacturing, and sustainability tradeoffs in product design; and Future Workforce, on nuclear workforce readiness, apprenticeships, and aligning training programs with real projects. Additional sessions are in development in areas including energy storage, fusion, industrial efficiency, critical minerals, and sustainability tradeoffs. The listed sessions are samples and subject to change.

Open exclusively to SAME members. The DOD & Federal Agency Programs Briefings cover upcoming government engineering, design, construction, and environmental programs. The event also focuses on acquisition strategy and engagement with contracting representatives, flag and general officers, and other decision-makers from military-service engineering components and federal agencies.

Technical committee meetings provide insight into the rationale behind new and revised API upstream standards and proven practices for safe, sustainable, and environmentally sound operations. The event also covers API-sponsored research and development. The Committee on Standardization of Oilfield Equipment and Materials is responsible for approximately 400 standards, including approximately 275 that form the basis of the API Monogram Program. Listed committee areas include offshore structures, tubular goods, valve and wellhead equipment, drilling structures, well cements, field operating equipment, drilling, completion and fluids, fiberglass and plastic pipe, drilling well control equipment, subsea production equipment, quality, completion equipment, supply chain management, materials, offshore cranes, lifting and handling, and drilling and production technology. Some listed subcommittees may not meet at this event. Participation is open to interested parties.

The event focuses on assembly and quality manufacturing, with industry professionals exploring equipment, technologies, and solutions for assembly and manufacturing. Its stated offerings include suppliers, interactive product demonstrations, and expert-led technical sessions addressing real-world manufacturing challenges and operational excellence.

The definitive annual gathering for aboveground storage tank professionals since 1995, organized by API, developer of tank standards API 650 and API 653. The conference covers evolving standards, emerging technologies, regulatory developments, inspection and maintenance strategies, and real-world case studies for engineers, operators, regulators, and asset integrity specialists.

The program addresses safe, efficient, and responsible coal use, with sessions on emergency preparedness, procurement, reliability, AI-ready coal assets, unit-operation costs, workforce recruitment and knowledge retention, maintenance prioritization, combustible-dust hazards, ash use and marketability, heat-rate degradation, fire protection, and contractor safety. Roundtable themes include safety and health, boiler and combustion, coal handling, emergency response, incident prevention, uses for ash, and AI applications.