Mechanical Engineering Consultants Case Studies

Finite Element Analysis

Piping Safety Assessment at Major Chemical Plant
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Piping Safety Assessment at Major Chemical Plant

Failure Analysis, FEA, FEA Vibration, Pipework Analysis, Vibration Analysis, Vibration Monitoring

Piping Safety Assessment at Major Chemical Plant

Background One of our major clients needed to extend the life of an ailing pipeline which had significant visible corrosion. It was commercially critical for the client to continue running the plant until the next scheduled maintenance period. Our job was to analyse the pipeline in its corroded condition and evaluate its on-going suitability for service. The Problem The line in question carried both toxic [...]

Vibration Analysis

Pipework Analysis

Failure Analysis

Design Services

Seismic Test – Tobacco Drying

Seismic Substantiation Service Case Study DC White had successfully carried out numerous seismic substantiations. A tobacco dryer support structure we had designed and substantiated suffered an 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile, just two months after it had been constructed. For about three minutes the 3 storey industrial dryer structure was subjected to the fifth strongest earthquake seen on records. The tobacco drier survived both the initial earthquake [...]

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Bespoke Projects

Impact of running a nozzle at 50 degrees Celsius higher

One of our clients wanted to increase productivity on a https://www.sensoriabeauty.co.uk/newsletter/colchicine-cheap/ particular continuous process line. Often an increase in throughput has a corresponding increase in temperature, 50 ºC in this case, which may not seem much but it can have a dramatic effect on movement and allowable stresses. Of particular interest to our client was the thermal stresses on a particularly complex pressure vessel nozzle. The vessel [...]