Materials Selection & Design Review
Foresight through Hindsight
The best time to deal with potential mechanical and physical property problems is in the design phase when the entire process exists only on paper. An integrated materials selection and design review at this stage can prevent enormous future expense by identifying errors and omissions.
Our materials selection and design review process begins with a review and understanding of the process or operation. We then assess the proposed design for anticipated resistance to its operating environment, considering all potential damage mechanisms. "Foresight through Hindsight" is our maxim, i.e., taking we've learned through failure analysis and using it to avoid decisions that will prove costly and aggravating later.
Ms. Galante specializes in providing materials and corrosion technical support for refining operations. Having worked for owner-operators the majority of her career, she has acquired skills in unit corrosion monitoring and damage mechanism identification, materials selection, Fitness-For-Service and repair strategies, as well as Risk-Based Inspection and risk-based work selection principles. She is familiar with the majority of the typical unit types found in complex refineries (e.g., HDS, delayed cokers, FCCU, SWS), with a particular area of expertise in crude unit corrosion including atmospheric overhead corrosion control and crude slate evaluations. Finally, she has written a number of MOEs which have been used to improve equipment reliability, control unit operations at the operator level and train both operations and technical staff on unit-specific degradation mechanisms.
Mr. Staats’ materials engineering areas of specialty include heater tube thickness and remaining life analysis based upon creep and corrosion. He also has extensive experience with damage assessment and remaining life models for High Temperature Hydrogen Attack. In addition, through RBI assessments and corrosion reviews, Mr. Staats has extensive knowledge of coal gasification processes and associated damage mechanisms. 
