Pressure Systems Engineering Inc.

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PSE offers a wide range of engineering services.  Following is a partial list of PSE project experience:

 

· A study on international plastic piping standards and literature search for the Pressure Vessel Research Council (New York, NY); results published as WRC Bulletin 415, Sept. 1996.

· Design/specification and procurement of a jacketed Hastelloy reactor and agitator.

· Redesign and procurement of a high-temperature process desuperheater.

· Stress analysis of a jacketed process piping system for a Houston, Texas facility.

· Safety-relief valve/rupture disc size verification and documentation (OSHA 1910.119).

· Remaining life and equipment integrity evaluation of various process equipment.

· Risk analysis and design/bid specification for a secondary-containment pipeline in lethal service (jointly with Dr. Brown, QED).

· Equipment and piping design, mechanical engineering, specifications and procurement support services for a new facility in South Carolina (P&IDs, pipeline lists, line sizes, tanks, agitators, pumps and specialty equipment).

· Hose failure evaluation for product liability.

· Finite element analysis of a process reactor to optimize maximum pressure rating.

· Thermal rating and mechanical design of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger in high temperature service.

· Stress analysis and restraint specifications of superheated steam piping and feedwater piping for a new boiler installation.

· Review of steam distribution piping for ASME Code compliance.

· Fitness-for-service assessment of a glass-lined, jacketed reactor vessel.

· Site-wide cooling water system piping design and specifications, including PFDs and pressure drop calculations through all existing equipment.

· Finite element analysis of manway cover with oversized bolt holes.

· Failure analysis and design proposal of a rotating furnace support ring.

· Finite element evaluation for temporary fitness-for-service of an atmospheric tank buckling problem.

· Thermal stress analysis evaluation of an ethylene oxide reactor by finite element method.

· Project management and complete multi-discipline design engineering for major manufacturing facility expansion projects (PFDs, scope, P&IDs, equipment specifications, CAD/design drafting, cost and schedule, E&I, civil/structural and project administration).  Major projects have included a $6.5MM chemical plant expansion in Delaware (1998-1999), and an $8.5MM polymer plant expansion in New Jersey (2001-2002).

· Process kinetics and multi-phase flow computations of relief device size for a process reactor.

· Finite element analysis of a chemical reactor for temperature and service life limits.

· Fitness-for-service of process compressor, including MOC validation and finite element analysis.

· Evaluation, design improvements and procurement of polymer reactors and agitators.

 

PSE activities also have included audits of equipment and piping systems; surveys of equipment manufacturers’ facilities; preliminary design engineering and preparation of detailed project cost estimates; plant specifications/standards review/revision; and various CAD/design drafting services.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE