Electrical, Instrumentation & Controls | June 17, 2014 Systems Obsolescence Mitigation Strategy... The majority of industrial plants around the world have long since deployed microprocessor-based systems to automate the monitoring, control and… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | May 16, 2014 Hazard Identification: The Mitigation Hierarchy an... Hazard Identified; What Next? As we’ve discussed in recent articles, once a hazard is identified as legitimate, it needs to… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | April 24, 2014 Becht Engineering Contributes to Successful Turnar... Valero’s Three Rivers Refinery is a 400-acre site with a total throughput capacity of approximately 100,000 barrels per day. It… Read More
Capital Projects | April 17, 2014 Black Boxes On Cranes – Useful Tool or Liabi... Industry is concerned about the “Black Boxes” on Cranes. Are they a useful tool or a liability? They record everything… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | April 11, 2014 Successful Engineering Support for Valero’s ... Rich Basile joined Becht Engineering in June 2012, after his retirement from ExxonMobil Research and Engineering. During his career at… Read More
Capital Projects | April 8, 2014 Becht Engineering Contributes to Another Successfu... The Valero Port Arthur Refinery was commissioned in 1901 and has had many process additions and improvements in its history. … Read More
Capital Projects | April 4, 2014 Crane Bridge Design... The CMAA Standard for Cranes: Becht Engineering recently completed the structural analysis for a single girder 5-ton crane bridge with… Read More
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | April 4, 2014 Cracks in Cement Lining and Coating... I was the Principal Investigator for the recently issued EPRI Technical Report “Guidelines for the Evaluation of Cracks in Cement… Read More
Capital Projects | March 28, 2014 Burns & McDonnell Project – Wynnewood R... My assignment as a Heavy Lift and Rigging Advisor was to observe and consult with the client onsite during the… Read More
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | March 21, 2014 Predicting the Remaining Life of Corroded Buried P... When planning or performing a wall thickness inspection of buried pipe, it is necessary to establish the procedure to be… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | March 19, 2014 Designing Elevated Temperature Equipment with Inte... If the behavior of discontinuity stresses due to pressure is not properly understood in elevated temperature design, unconservative designs can… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | March 11, 2014 Estimating Creep Life of Fluid Catalytic Cracker I... How long will the cyclone system in a Cat Cracker reactor or regenerator last? Cyclones systems in Fluidized Catalytic Cracker… Read More
Machinery | February 13, 2014 No Detail or Procedure is Trivial, or, Sophisticat... Today it is common practice in overhauls of large rotating equipment to spend many man hours in detailed planning, coordination,… Read More
Capital Projects | February 10, 2014 1500-Ton Reactor Lift In Louisiana – Safe &#... Valero Energy Corporation recently installed a new, state of the art, hydrocracker at their Meraux, LA Refinery. The reactor lift… Read More
Capital Projects | January 31, 2014 Why Cranes Fall Down... There are many reasons cranes fall down. One of the most common causes is ground support failure. Let’s take a… Read More
