MATERIALS & CORROSION
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 like metal loss and cracking, you’ll identify the potential risk for creep, fatigue, general pitting/corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, brittle fracture, and many other damage mechanisms.
Our team of metallurgy and corrosion experts leverage 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
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Materials & Corrosion Consulting Service Areas
Identifying active and potential damage mechanisms helps predict an equipment’s remaining life and the potential risk for failure.
Thorough CCDs and customized limits are instrumental to mechanical integrity and risk-based inspection (RBI) programs.
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.
Identify corrosion monitoring locations (CMLs) using advanced thickness analysis to find localized corrosion or thinning trends in piping circuits.
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.
Identify the most cost and time-effective changes to allow reliable biofuels processing and develop practical inspection strategies after the equipment is repurposed.
Achieve immediate answers to the cause of a failure and receive practical inspection guidance to get a facility’s operations underway quickly and safely.
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Materials & Corrosion Expertise
Our team of corrosion and metallurgy experts combine their 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.
Our M&C experts:
- Have 350+ years of combined field experience
- Pioneered development of FFS and RBI
- Are the primary authors on WRC 528 and WRC 562
- Served as lead investigators on API 579 and API 571
- Provide emergency onsite support within 24 hours
