RELIABILITY. INTEGRITY. SAFETY.
FOCUSED ON WHAT MATTERS TO YOU.
Safe operation of your equipment and facilities is essential to protecting your employees, the community, and the environment. You need to be confident in the long-term reliability and safety of all equipment and assets in an industrial plant.
At Equity, our engineering and consulting services are focused on managing the entire asset lifecycle to provide you with practical recommendations to improve safety, increase equipment reliability, and mitigate risk
Asset Lifecycle Management
Adopting an equipment lifecycle management process will help you to reduce risk, optimize design and construction, predict future maintenance and inspection costs, maximize equipment availability, and comply with local regulations.
Our engineering consulting services are focused on delivering a comprehensive asset lifecycle management framework, including:
- Damage mechanism identification
- Construction codes and design standards
- In-service maintenance and inspection planning
- Fitness-for-Service (FFS) and Suitability-for-Service (SFS) standards
- Post-construction and repair guidelines
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Engineering Service Areas
Promote compliance, safety, and reliability across all facilities using standardized Best Practices to improve the quality of engineering programs, project execution, and asset lifecycle.
Identify and understand potential damage mechanisms that may cause equipment failure or create adverse operating or maintenance issues.
Achieve safe, efficient, and reliable operations by implementing proactive and reactive MI strategies that address every stage of an asset’s lifecycle.
Assess the structural integrity of assets and components to proactively increase operational safety, minimize failures, and save money.
Ensure that safety critical pressure relieving systems provide adequate protection to processes and meet the latest RAGAGEP.
Refocus maintenance dollars to priority areas by using risk as a basis for prioritizing and managing in-service inspection programs.
Identify the highest-risk equipment and piping systems, prioritize field screening, and decrease the risk of vibration fatigue failures.
Increase operational reliability and extend equipment life by making informed run, repair, or replace decisions on in-service equipment.
Establish measurement objectives and constraints to improve the safety and reliability of instrument and control systems.
Industry Insights
Analysis of Piping Surge Events
Authors: Bob Davis, P.E., Consulting Engineer II; Curtis Koether, P.E., Senior Engineer II
Surge events in piping systems can lead to severe displacements, loud noises, and operational challenges. Using a case study, this article highlights the factors behind surge events, including rapid changes in liquid velocity and pressure, and how forces generated during these transient events can impact piping systems. The authors discuss how a few targeted support modifications effectively resolved these issues without resorting to costly system overhauls or potentially problematic specialty equipment.
Addressing Piping Vibration in the Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Industries: The Upcoming API 579 Part 15
Author: Michael F.P. Bifano, Ph.D., P.E., ISO VCAT-IV, Rotating Equipment, Vibration, & Dynamics Team Leader
With the recent API Fall Meeting, it is timely to revisit this November 2023 article on API 579 Part 15, Methodologies of Piping Vibration, featuring insights from one of the new standard’s co-authors, Mike Bifano. This article discusses the three-tiered evaluation system and explains how vibration fits into a mechanical integrity program. Read more and learn about the highly anticipated improvements to our industry standards.
