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Jeremy Staats, PE
Mr. Staats is an experienced refining metallurgical and corrosion engineer. He’s knowledgeable on creep, HTHA, environmental cracking and sulfidic corrosion damage mechanisms and associated fitness-for-service methods. As a refinery based metallurgical and corrosion engineer, he’s proficient on materials selection, failure investigations, failure analysis, inspection planning, TA support, repair plans, RBI, IOW’s, and CCDs. He’s been intimately involved with implementation of RBI, CCD’s, and corrosion reviews both as a consultant and refinery metallurgical and corrosion engineer. Mr. Staats has also participated in mechanical integrity reviews and audits for fixed equipment, both as a consultant and end user.
Mr. Staats has authored papers covering fitness-for-service methods for wet H2S cracking, particularly the API 579 Part 7 HIC rules. He’s also authored papers on brittle fracture and the background research for temperature, stress, and fracture relationships as well as papers covering risk assessment techniques for High Temperature Hydrogen Attack (HTHA).
Mr. Staats is the current chair for API 571 – Damage Mechanisms Affecting Equipment in the Refining Industry. He is past vice chair for NACE TG 326, Weldments, Carbon Steel: Prevention of Environmental Cracking in Refining Environments and also led the NACE State of the Art session on processing tight oil crudes and associated corrosion issues.
Now Becht’s Corrosion, Materials & Mechanical Integrity Division Manager, Mr. Staats has over 15 years’ experience as a refining metallurgical and corrosion engineer. Prior to joining Becht, he worked as a consultant both in a central office and as an onsite refinery contractor. Mr. Staats also worked for Flint Hills Resources as a refinery metallurgical and corrosion engineer at their Corpus Christi location. He has spent the last 6+ years working for Becht as a Materials and Corrosion Engineer driving projects that incorporate CCD and IOWs into inspection data management systems. He is also active in materials and corrosion issues in the chemical and pulp and paper industries.
Mr. Staats received his BS in Metallurgical Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, MO. He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas.
Mr. Staats resides in Raysville, MO.
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