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Conduct a relief valve and flare system capacity evaluation on a refiner's recently revamped HDS Unit and Reformer Unit.
Provide on-site training to refining clients in the techniques for formally investigating a significant plant safety incident.
Perform an evaluation of the safety pressure relief system and flare system capacity at a petroleum refinery.
Evaluate replacing a refinery's kerosene stabilization tower with a refurbished existing tower available on the used equipment market.
Evaluate replacing a refinery's crude tower with either an optimally designed new tower or refurbishing existing towers available on the used equipment market.
Perform a pressure relief system review including relief valve sizing, flare header hydraulic debottlenecking, and develop recommended modifications for a major section of a petroleum refinery.
Review a refinery's existing fuel gas system for adequacy in complying with new EPA reporting regulations.
Provide heat exchanger evaluation and design expertise to reduce used oil tank heating cycle times.
Perform a plant wide relief valve and flare system evaluation at a lube oil refinery.
Determine PSM process coverage, perform hazards assessments, and prepare facility Risk Management Plan.
Determine refinery maximum intended hazardous liquid inventories to help client comply with PSM regulations.
Develop refinery process safety information for the purpose of compliance with OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) and EPA Risk Management Program (RMP) regulations.
Provide an independent 3rd party due diligence evaluation and plant site visit of a petroleum refinery in Asia.
Refinery compliance support with the OSHA Process Safety Management and EPA Risk Management Programs, including the development of process safety information (PSI).
Evaluate a reactor, design an associated scrubber, ammonia stripper, and provide other engineering data and equipment specifications for a H2S removal system.
Develop a summary table of safe operating limits (SOLs) for each of the processing units within a U.S. based refinery.
Calculate process conditions for various key refinery instruments to support instrumentation purchases in various refining process units.
Conduct a hydraulic study of a crude atmospheric furnace and reduce pressure drop in the furnace while maintaining throughput capacity. Also evaluate the crude supply and pre-heat train for pressure drop optimization.
Evaluate the an existing lube-oil filtration system for the Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Unit Wet Gas Compressors and provide recommendations for improving filtering efficiency and operability.
Evaluate and recommend modifications to reboiler heat exchangers associated with the refinery’s stabilization and splitter distillation columns.
Evaluation of the existing tank farm condensate recovery system hydraulics to determine throughput capacity, existing limitations, and options for increased capacity.
Evaluation of an existing firewater system's hydraulics to determine capacity, supply pressure, and modification options to support a new refinery processing unit.
Perform an evaluation of a refinery's existing wastewater effluent system's hydraulics to determine throughput capacity and make debottlenecking recommendations.
Update a refinery relief header/flare model prior to the installation of a new refinery flare and a seal pot as part of a flare gas recovery unit installation.
Develop options for the relocation and replacement of an existing refinery flare system.