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
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
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | June 19, 2017 Making Bad Actor Elimination Programs Work... This is the first in a series of Blogs on improving plant reliability programs through improvements in culture, programs and… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | March 30, 2017 Fitness-For-Service API 579-1/ASME FFS-1: Substant... Contributing Authors: Eileen Chant, Greg Epremian, Ranjan Nadarajah, Mark Stonehouse Summarized herein are the substantial changes to API 579-1/ASME FFS-1,… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | February 9, 2017 Loads on Buried Pipe: A 100-Year Old Empirical Fo... The evaluation of the effects of surcharge loads on buried pipes can be addressed using the Iowa formula. This formula,… Read More
Becht News | January 10, 2017 Bob Sims Elected To Board of AAES... The American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) Board of Directors Nov, 3, 2016 elected J. Robert Sims, 2014-2015 ASME President and… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | December 29, 2016 Piping Settlement Screening Tool... Settlement of a pipe support foundation is usually not a big deal to assess. A local piping flexibility model will… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | December 15, 2016 Storage Tanks – Maintenance & Reliabili... The safe operation, maintenance and reliability of roofs in large tanks, does require special considerations in their design, construction and… Read More
