The Becht Team
David J Keen
David Keen is a qualified Metallurgist with over 45yrs domestic and international experience in fertilizer and explosives manufacturing facilities across 12 countries globally. These facilities include Ammonia, Urea, Nitric Acid, Sulphuric Acid, Phosphoric Acid, Ammonium Nitrate, Fertilizer plants and Steam Generation utilities. David is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on equipment integrity management and has in recent years downloaded this knowledge into a series of training modules focused on preventing equipment failures through experiential learning and team problem solving sessions.
He has held various positions including Company Chief Engineer, VP Reliability & Risk, Company Engineer Fixed Equipment, Operations Manager, Maintenance Manager, T/A Manager and Plant Metallurgist. David also worked as a consultant for 8yrs to ammonia and downstream facilities in Australia, New Zealand, SE Asia, Canada, United States and South America. This work included:
- Qualitative risk-based assessments on > 50 process plants
- Quantitative analyses & fitness for service assessments
- Facilitating the completion of plant reliability assessments on 14 process plants
- Condition assessment, remnant life studies on:
- Hydrogen reformers, waste heat boilers, cooling water exchangers, synthesis loop converters, waste heat boilers & superheaters.
- Failure investigations in such areas as:
- High temperature hydrogen attack & hydrogen embrittlement of vessels and piping
- Stress relaxation cracking in alloy steels, stainless steels, Incoloys & Inconels
- Creep & creep-fatigue; reformer components, boilers & so on.
- Waste heat boilers and Superheaters
- Stress corrosion cracking of duplex stainless steels in hot cooling water service & in low pH acid service
- Corrosion failures of equipment in nitric acid, sulfuric acid & phosphoric acid service
- CO2 corrosion & amine stress corrosion cracking in amine systems
- Auditing the manufacturing performance of plant, with particular focus on:
- Critical controls management, including process controls, design / construction controls & inspection practices
- risk management of critical plant
- shutdown / turnaround management
- root cause analysis and failure investigation
- All
- Advisor Resources
- Business Administration
- Business Development
- Capital Projects
- Corrosion Materials
- Digital Solutions
- Due Diligence
- Fired Heaters
- Inst/Elec Controls
- Leadership
- Machinery
- Maintenance & Turnarounds
- Mechanical Eng
- Mechanical Integrity
- Nuclear
- Piping
- Process Eng
- Reliability
- Strategic Business Planning
- Training
- Business Administration
Maureen Brody
Hearl Mead, Jr
