To maximize asset safety and reliability, Equity Engineering provides specialized materials and corrosion services, including damage mechanism reviews (DMRs), creep analysis, HTHA, and root cause analyses. By identifying vulnerabilities, our experts establish integrity operating windows (IOWs) and mitigation strategies. We perform metallurgical failure analysis to resolve complex damage and prevent costly downtime.
Estimate Remaining Life & Manage Risk
Normal operations in a plant or facility can expose process equipment to corrosive environments, high temperatures, or cyclic operating conditions. Over time, these factors can lead to significant operational and maintenance costs. By proactively evaluating susceptibility to damage mechanisms including creep, fatigue, general pitting/corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, and brittle fracture, you’ll identify potential risks before they occur.
Our team of metallurgy and corrosion experts leverages practical design, operation, and inspection considerations to maximize reliability and reduce maintenance costs for process equipment, including pressure vessels, tanks, heat exchangers, and piping. We combine our extensive experience with state-of-the-art technology to create safe operating environments while also guiding equipment design, material selection, inspection strategies, weld repair techniques, and process optimization.
- Improve safety and reliability
- Develop inspection plans
- Avoid costly equipment downtime
- Identify areas of vulnerability
Materials & Corrosion Consulting Service Areas
Damage Mechanism Reviews
Identify active and potential damage mechanisms to help predict an equipment’s remaining life and the potential risk for failure.
Corrosion Control Documents (CCDs) & Integrity Operating Windows (IOWs)
Thorough CCDs and customized limits are instrumental to mechanical integrity and risk-based inspection (RBI) programs.
High-Temperature Hydrogen Attack (HTHA)
Combine mechanistic damage modeling with fitness-for-service (FFS) rules to predict HTHA, estimate remaining life, and develop practical inspection recommendations.
High-Temperature Creep
Account for high-temperature material properties and perform Omega creep tests and accurate remaining life assessments.
Piping Circuits — Thickness Analysis
Identify corrosion monitoring locations (CMLs) using advanced thickness analysis to find localized corrosion or thinning trends in piping circuits.
Welding Engineering
Hot tap assessments combine fluid dynamics and sensitivity analysis modeling to determine in-service equipment mechanical load and design, risk of weld cracking, and other unintended reactions.
Renewable Fuels Processing
Identify the most cost- and time-effective changes to allow reliable biofuels processing and develop practical inspection strategies after the equipment is repurposed.
Failure, Fire, & Incident Investigation
Achieve immediate answers to the cause of a failure and receive practical inspection guidance to get a facility’s operations underway quickly and safely.
