ANSWERS TO TODAY'S INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
Aging infrastructure, growing knowledge gaps, fewer qualified employees, changing jurisdictional requirements, and a push to produce sustainable products or services. These issues are relevant to all processing facilities.
At Equity, we combine our industry expertise, codes and standards knowledge with a multi-disciplinary approach to address these common challenges. Our consulting services, corporate standards, and software help you improve facility-wide safety, increase inspection efficiencies, reduce equipment downtime, and maximize operational reliability.
How We Help Your Industry
Eliminate Knowledge Gaps
The crew change is here, your subject matter experts (SMEs) are retiring, and there are fewer personnel available to fill those roles. The Equity Engineering Practices (EEPs) capture SME knowledge and integrate that information into the industry’s most comprehensive corporate standards. The EEPs are accessible to all employees, which increases the safety and reliability of your facility.
Comply with Jurisdictional Codes & Regulations
In every industry, jurisdictional requirements are changing to meet environmental targets and address sustainable operations. As active members on many API and ASME committees, we know the codes and standards and use this knowledge on every project and technology we deliver. We help you meet jurisdictional requirements without over-engineering.
Minimize Unplanned Maintenance or Shutdown
Unplanned maintenance or shutdowns are expensive. The equipment needs to restart quickly to minimize production and revenue losses. E2G offers pre-turnaround planning, proactive fitness-for-service (FFS) assessments, and risk-based inspection (RBI) program implementation to help you minimize unplanned shutdowns, improve equipment reliability, and reduce operational risk.
Industries We Work With
Oil & Gas
Address the evolving needs in the upstream and downstream energy industries with E2G’s extensive engineering experience and software.
Midstream
Maintain the safety and integrity of aboveground storage tanks, terminals, and pipelines with proactive engineering services.
Chemicals & Petrochemicals
Minimize hazards and improve operational safety processing polymers, petrochemicals, and other feedstocks.
Nitrogen & Fertilizers
Control inspection costs, minimize corrosion or HTHA concerns, and improve reliability to meet the growing global demand for fertilizers and potash.
Renewables & Alternative Energy
Join the energy transition by shifting to sustainable production and operations while balancing operational reliability.
Other Industries
Manage risk, control inspection costs, and create safe operating environments at all types of industrial processing facilities, including nuclear energy, pharmaceuticals, and aerospace.
Industry Insights
Local PWHT and Weld Residual Stress: A Case Study in Welding and PWHT Simulation
A local PWHT procedure that fully complies with WRC 452 does not guarantee the residual stress relief assumed in fitness-for-service assessments, and for equipment susceptible to environmental cracking, that gap can be the difference between a successful repair and a repeat failure. This case study presents a coupled welding and PWHT finite element simulation of a fractionator head repair, comparing local PWHT outcomes against furnace treatment and identifying ramp rate as the most powerful lever for improving stress relief.
New Guidance for the Design of Fillet-Welded Patches
The current ASME PCC-2 Article 212 guidance for fillet-welded patch repairs is known to be conservative, frequently driving patch plate thicknesses past the 1.5-inch threshold that triggers mandatory PWHT. This article presents Equity Engineering’s proposed T-min methodology, an FEA-validated alternative that eliminates unnecessary thickness penalties and reduces PWHT risk while remaining technically rigorous and grounded in ASME design-by-analysis principles.
Testimonials
Our Experts
Equity is your “go-to” consultants for the hard-to-solve problems. Equity is internationally recognized in the refining, petrochemical, and chemical industries as a leader on aging infrastructure services and support. Our team combines their extensive experience with state-of-the-art technology to help extend the lifecycle of your existing assets and create safe operating environments.
Our experts:
- Are primary authors on WRC 528 and WRC 562
- Are lead investigators on API 579, API 571, and API 581
- Have been an API 520 task force chairperson for more than 25 years
- Are members of API sub-committee of mechanical equipment (SOME)
- Are certified ISO VCAT-IV vibration analysts
