Strategic Business Planning | November 16, 2020 Energy Transition: Solving A Global Problem Requir... The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a renewed focus on planning for sustainability and achieving the goals of the Paris Climate… Read More
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | October 28, 2020 Recent Advances in Becht’s HTHA Damage Modeling ... Overview The first four parts of this series have described the updated Becht HTHA model and presented extensive validation for… Read More
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | October 28, 2020 Recent Advances in Becht’s HTHA Damage Modeling ... Overview Part 3 of this series presented the data set and calibration used to characterize C-0.5Mo performance. This part extends… Read More
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | October 27, 2020 Recent Advances in Becht’s HTHA Damage Modeling ... Overview Part 2 of this series presented the extension of our model to C-0.5Mo material and calibration to very detailed… Read More
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | October 26, 2020 Recent Advances in Becht’s HTHA Damage Modeling ... Overview In Part 1 of this blog series an overview of two basic extensions to our void growth based HTHA… Read More
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | October 26, 2020 Recent Advances in Becht’s HTHA Damage Modeling ... Overview This past spring, we described how we’ve incorporated well-established void growth modeling into our high temperature hydrogen attack (HTHA)… Read More
Crude Refining & Production | October 8, 2020 Normalization Of Deviance Costs Lives... Space Shuttle Challenger Many of us can remember exactly where we were at 11:39 AM EST on January 28, 1986.… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | September 23, 2020 Improving Burner Design And Operation With CFD Mod... By Dave Dewees & Zumao Chen Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling can be used as an efficient and low-cost alternative… Read More
Machinery | September 18, 2020 Rotating Equipment – Shaft Alignment Basics... Shaft alignment is likely the most misunderstood facet of rotating installation and maintenance. Most shaft alignment today is done by… Read More
Strategic Business Planning | September 18, 2020 Winners, Losers and Everything In Between – ... In the final installment of the Winners, Losers, and Everything In Between series, we address “Planning for Sustainability”. What is… Read More
Process Technology | September 15, 2020 Improving Fixed Bed Naphtha Reformer Catalyst Rege... Background Refiners have been reforming naphtha to improve its octane or to produce aromatic chemicals since the 1930s. Initially the… Read More
Strategic Business Planning | September 9, 2020 Using LP Models To Sharpen Aim At Hydrocarbon Supp... It’s time that we shift our focus away from the doom, the gloom, the fear, and the uncertainty of today’s… Read More
Becht News | September 3, 2020 Chuck Becht IV Honored By NJBIZ With ICON Award... Excerpt below taken from NJBIZ... "The business world is full of successful leaders deserving of recognition—many of whom NJBIZ honors… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | August 31, 2020 CFD Modeling Of Mixing Tees – Design Of A Th... Published in Hydrocarbon Processing, August 2020 hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine By Dave Dewees, Zumao Chen, and Magnus Gustafsson Mixing tees - in which… Read More
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | August 31, 2020 Processing Lower Cost Crudes With Greater Confiden... Published in Inspectioneering Journal July|August 2020 By Gerrit Buchheim, Winston Robbins, and Frank Sapienza For more than 100 years, it… Read More