Metallurgical Forensics
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Improving Plant Safety Through Asset Management
At Metallurgical Forensics, our goal is simple: Help our clients improve the safety and reliability of their process units through proven corrosion and materials engineering. Our team has a proven track-record of safety improvement via combination of corrosion-studies, mechanical analysis, and failure analysis. Whether you need help improving your unit's mechanical integrity effectiveness proactively or reactively, we can help.
Meet Met-Forensics
Clay: Over 14 years of experience solving mechanical integrity challenges for upstream and downstream owner-operators. Clay is always looking for a new challenge, and yours could be the next to receive a robust solution! Cameron: Over 11 years of experience as a site corrosion and materials engineer in specialty-chemicals units and refining units. Have a bespoke chemical process or a unique corrosion challenge? Cameron specializes in solving unique challenges in specialty chemicals and is always excited to develop a new, unique solution!
The Met-Forensics Advantage
Resourcing
A 10+ year experienced corrosion and materials engineer will work every aspect of your project to completion. This results in higher-quality results at every project milestone. Improved review of both inspection histories and critical process data are two areas that we see the most benefit. In a recent study we found that the original review missed on major repairs – including weld overlay of a regenerator column. This resulted in the improper population of mechanical details and completely missing elevated corrosion potential in downstream assets. Our engineers are experienced in building and improving mechanical integrity programs, so they know how important small details are!
Customization
We will not utilize a blanket approach to study your assets. Our engineers will first seek to understand your program, assess your gaps, and provide the optimal scope of review. We have tools, tips, and preferences that we know to be helpful, but we’ve found that investing time in identifying the high-value areas of improvement is the best return on your investment. We’re software agnostic and can help with any tools of your choosing. We have direct implementation experience with PCMS, APM, CREDO, API-RBI, S-RBI and many other software.
External Mechanisms
External corrosion continues to be a top cause of failure for operators but receives little to no attention in corrosion studies. Blanket logic is applied blindly rather than utilizing inspection history and design details. Specific threats like contact point corrosion, soil-to-air interfaces, dummy leg supports and corrosion under fireproofing (CUF) are conveniently ignored. In recent work which included baseline API 570 walkdowns, we developed an effective external inspection checklist and incorporated baseline results in the corrosion study. We ensure that external corrosion gets its day in the sun (and the soil, rain, and chloride).