Fitness-for-Service

Becht Engineering has extensive experience and expertise in the field of Fitness-For-Service. We have performed evaluations for all of the damage mechanisms covered in API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 for clients around the world. We have performed Fitness-For-Service evaluations on piping, pressure vessels, heat exchangers and tanks. Our wealth of knowledge and experience enables us to provide authoritative, practical, knowledge based answers, and to solve your problems. We have performed fitness for service assessments on more than 2,000 pressure vessels.

We are organized to quickly and efficiently handle all levels of Fitness-For-Service assessments including rapid response to emergency situations where quick assessments are required to keep a plant running or when damage is found as part of discovery during turnarounds, and rapid assessments are necessary to determine the path forward. For immediate response, contact our FFS coordinator, Magnus Gustafsson or click on the Rapid Request button on this page below. The request will be forwarded to Mr. Gustafsson.

Our knowledge comes from active participation in the new construction codes for equipment such as pressure vessels and piping as well as post construction standards. Magnus Gustafsson is a member, Gerrit Buchheim has been a member since inception and is taskgroup chair for Part 7 Hydrogen Blistering/HIC/SOHIC, Jim McLaughlin is a contributing member, Bob Sims is a member and the past vice-chair and George Antaki is past vice-chair of API 579-1/ASME FFS-1. Dr. Charles Becht IV is the founder and immediate past-chair of ASME PCC-2: Repair of Pressure Equipment and Piping and member and past chair of the ASME Post Construction Committee. When required, we design the repairs to restore the equipment integrity.