Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | January 16, 2016 Becht Advisors Exceed Client Expectations... Gulf Coast Refinery Turnaround Becht Engineering mobilized Advisors to Louisiana to supplement a Client’s operations organization during a 45-day, fourth… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | January 15, 2016 Mitigating Turnaround Discovery Risk... Recently, a Becht Inspection Planner was preparing the Inspection Turnaround Plan for a client’s HF Alkylation Unit. When reviewing the… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | December 17, 2015 Risk-Based Work Selection – A Process Focusing o... Risk Based Work Selection (RBWS) is one of the Best Practices used by refiners in managing safety and reliability of… Read More
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | December 2, 2015 Changing Your Crude Slate – Short and Long Term ... There are many reasons why a refinery may want to change their crude slates. However, all of them boil down… Read More
Capital Projects | November 10, 2015 Mecca Crane Collapse – “The Worst Cran... I am sure most of you heard about the tragic crane accident that occurred in Mecca in September 2015. I… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | October 7, 2015 Repair versus Replace – Not Always an Easy Decis... Equipment Operators face hundreds of work list items while planning for scheduled maintenance events. For each item the owner must… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | July 14, 2015 Design/Specification of FCC Replacement Parts and ... Overview Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) units were first developed in the 1930s. Over the years this technology has evolved and it… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | July 13, 2015 An Integrated Approach to Limit the Effects of Wat... This article describes an integrated study of thermal-hydraulic and structural loading of bounding piping systems, to establish an operating envelope,… Read More
Machinery | July 8, 2015 Shaft Fatigue Failures – Part II... Note: This blog is a continuation from the previous article from Becht Engineering, “Shaft Fatigue Failures – Part I”. It… Read More
Machinery | July 8, 2015 Shaft Fatigue Failures – Part I... Many years ago when I first started my career in a rotating equipment maintenance organization, I was spending the day… Read More
Crude Refining & Production | July 3, 2015 State Approval of Used or Relocated Pressure Vesse... Achieving “State Special” designation for a pressure vessel can require a fair amount of effort in documentation development. This process… Read More
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | June 26, 2015 Refrigerated Storage Tanks – Managing Operationa... Refrigerated Liquefied Storage Tanks have been used for over 60 years in the industry. A significant number of these tanks… Read More
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | June 20, 2015 BIDES – A Knowledge Base Facilitating Effect... There are numerous challenges that Inspectors and Reliability Engineers face when developing Risk Based Asset Integrity Plans, such as: Identifying… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | May 23, 2015 Check Valves: Often Forgotten – Till They C... Integrity management of piping systems involves functional testing, inspection and maintenance of components which are identified as “safety critical”. Typically,… Read More
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | May 22, 2015 Considerations in Selection of RBI Tools... The world of reliability is shifting from a calendar based approach to a smarter, risk-based approach in the hydrocarbon production… Read More
