Becht News | March 29, 2018 Becht’s Trevor Seipp Named ASME Fellow... Becht Engineering would like to congratulate Trevor Seipp, M. Sc., P. Eng. for recently being named an ASME Fellow in… Read More
Becht News | February 6, 2018 Becht Acquires Fronek Power... Becht Engineering Acquires Fronek Power Systems The engineering consulting operations of Fronek Power Systems LLC (FPS) (www.fronekpower.com) are now part… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | January 25, 2018 Five Keys to a Cost-Effective Repair/Modification ... : Process: Does the repair change the process chemistries, physics (fluid phase), and thermo-hydraulics (flow rates, pressures, temperatures)? Does the… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | January 11, 2018 Purpose of the Flange Bolt Rules in ASME VIII and ... The partial objective of the ASME Appendices ASME VIII Div.1 Appendix 2, and ASME III Div.1 Appendix XI provide “Rules… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | January 3, 2018 Differential Thermal Expansion: A Challenge to Fla... by George Antaki and Jeremy Lundquist It is not uncommon to use B7 low alloy high-strength bolts on stainless steel flanges.… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | December 1, 2017 Storage Tanks Floating Roofs – Challenges In... Over one hundred thousand floating roofs have been used in hydrocarbon (oil) storage tanks since the 1950s. A majority of… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | October 22, 2017 Reliability Program Implementation and High-Altitu... This is the third in a series of Blogs on improving plant reliability performance through changes in culture, programs, equipment… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | October 5, 2017 Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) – A Key Eleme... Many companies and organizations have been on the reliability journey for a number of years, while others are just beginning. … Read More
Fired Heater Services | September 21, 2017 Are Your Heaters Affecting Your Reliability?... From a process standpoint, your Fired Equipment items are not only some of the most critical but some of the… Read More
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | September 8, 2017 CalOSHA Update – Damage Mechanism Reviews (DMR)... On May 18, 2017, the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Occupational Safety and Health Standards (CalOSHA) board approved a new… Read More
Crude Refining & Production | September 5, 2017 Bad Actor Elimination Program Works…Inspecti... Rick Hoffman, Director Mechanical Integrity for Becht, was published in the July/August 2017 edition of the Inspectioneering Journal. Rick's two blogs… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | September 4, 2017 Reliability Beliefs – Driving Organizational... This is the second in a series of Blogs on improving plant reliability performance through improvement in culture, programs and… Read More
Capital Projects | August 24, 2017 Elements of a Super Heavy Lift Execution Manual... Making A Super Heavy Lift? Here's What You Need To Know If you are making a single super lift or… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | July 11, 2017 Capacity Reduction of a Compression Member with an... A recent review of equipment installed in a power plant found a piping strut that was visibly bent. Would the… Read More
Process Technology | June 24, 2017 Process Safety Management and YOU... Walking the Walk…Management Commitment My assumption is if you are reading this, you have some involvement in, or responsibility for,… Read More