Filling Critical Technical Gaps for a Complex Refinery Restart A West Coast refinery faced the dual challenge of restreaming a long-idled facility while simultaneo... Read More
Stalled to Stable: Restart Success During a Global Lockdown A refinery in the Caribbean had been idled for nearly a decade and was more than a year behind sched... Read More
Risk Management Tool to Evaluate Asphalt Feedstocks A major South American refiner sought to strategically upgrade refinery bottom streams into higher-v... Read More
Enhancing Early-Career Engineer Development at PBF Energy PBF Energy faced significant challenges in retaining and attracting talent due to the loss of instit... Read More
Identifying Critical Failures in a Chemical Plant Explosion Objective: Provide expert analysis to identify the root cause of the piping failure and support the ... Read More
Root-Cause Findings Protect Client in Fatal Explosion Case A fatal explosion occurred during the first trial of a new process at a large industrial complex. Th... Read More
Expert Analysis in Asbestos-Related Death A family claimed that a deceased employee contracted mesothelioma from asbestos exposure at a specif... Read More
Optimizing Troubleshooting in Slurry Drum Operations A chemical processing plant encountered recurrent high-density readings in a slurry drum. Operators ... Read More
Process & Mechanical Assistance for Asset Improvement Process & Mechanical Assistance for Asset Improvement Cat Feed Hydrotreater Reactor Replacement ... Read More
Plastic pyrolysis oil processing in HDS SITUATION Customer A European customer was looking at processing pyrolysis oil (from plasti... Read More
CCS FEED Phase – Review Situation: BECHT was called by a European customer to review their Carbon Capture Sequestration ... Read More
Equipment Due Diligence, Turkey Situation: An owner/operator of coal fired electrical generating facilities in Turkey was required t... Read More
FCC Catalyst Loss Situation: North America FCC unit experienced above-normal catalyst losses. In addition to incre... Read More
Catalyst Withdrawal Line Hotspot Situation: Recently replaced FCC regenerator developed hot spot. Engineering company gave 2-ho... Read More
Power Plant Crane Access Solution Situation: A construction contractor was charged with installing a selective catalytic reduction u... Read More