MISTRAS’ Engineering Consulting services specialize in design, evaluation, engineering, and analysis of assets and facilities to maximize efficiency, production, and safety while minimizing risk and waste.
Our engineering consulting services are designed to support facilities in the main areas:
Our engineering teams are dedicated not only to making sure your operations are safe, but to keeping them running full steam ahead at all times, through operations, reliability, and facility design support.
Our experienced technical staff offer professional support to augment your on-site facility operating personnel during peak work or problem periods, with rapid mobilization and response time.
Energy consumption makes up about 30-50% of a refinery’s operating costs, so MISTRAS provides engineering consulting services to help our clients focus on a few major opportunity areas to optimize this spending. Our plan is broken down into four major steps:
MISTRAS provides engineering support for any process equipment or facility, including support clients in the oil & gas and manufacturing industries to maximize the productivity and safety of their FCCUs, cokers, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, storage tanks, piping, marine terminals, and much more.
Fitness-for-Service (FFS) assessments are quantitative engineering evaluations that MISTRAS performs to determine if an asset is fit for continued service, as part of run-repair-replace decisions. We often perform these to gauge the structural integrity of an in-service component that may contain a flaw or damage. We utilize experimental strain gauging, fracture mechanics and finite element analysis in order to aid us in our FFS calculations.
Assets that have been in operation for long periods of time benefit from FFS assessments to check for life expectancy. An FFS assessment can be used to make run-repair-replace decisions to help determine if pressurized equipment containing flaws can continue to operate safely and if so, how long. These FFS assessments are recognized and referenced by the API Codes and Standards (i.e., 510, 570 & 653) and by National Board-23.
Because engineering works in combination with our inspection services, mechanical integrity (MI), risk-based inspections (RBI), and PCMS, our FFS assessments use methodologies that are equipment-specific, helping to assess and determine an asset's expected lifecycle.
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Our experts provides fixed equipment mechanical engineering consultations for a variety of applications:
MISTRAS’ engineering SMEs provide services to help our clients manage their engineering and construction projects, including planning for overall project execution and supporting plant start-up.
In addition to capital construction projects, we also support clients in designing and implementing Asset Integrity Management (AIMS) and Mechanical Integrity (MI) programs. Read more about our AIMS/MI program services here.
Turnarounds result in some of the biggest maintenance costs that refineries can face, when you consider the lost productivity that comes with shutting down a plant’s operations. MISTRAS provides refinery turnaround planning services to minimize plant downtime and optimize the opportunities that the shutdown can offer. We plan turnarounds in accordance with API codes, along with any other applicable regulations.
Our engineering consultants assess existing turnaround process and maintenance effectiveness through KPIs and performance comparisons against industry-best practices. We help plants identify the major work items and establish turnaround objectives.
Using a risk-based methodology, we help plants establish the scope of the turnaround by defining each of the required maintenance items, setting cost and run length expectations, and reviewing turnaround plans to ensure work is completed as safely and efficiently as possible.
Our engineering consulting services help customers implement and execute non-intrusive inspection (NII) programs to safely inspect assets with no entry required.
Learn more about our Non-Intrusive Inspection services.
Non-process consulting guides the execution of projects for new facilities, plant modifications, and ongoing operations for non-process disciplines.
MISTRAS Engineering Services' non-process consulting is unique in several ways. First, in the outstanding quality of the services we provide, including those for:
Second, we do this for all of the principal non-process disciplines associated with facilities used in the process and energy-related industries. The execution of projects is greatly benefited from the dedicated non-process consulting MISTRAS provides.
We have the full scope of OneSource capabilities and experience required in the engineering disciplines for non-process technologies:
MISTRAS Engineering Services provide comprehensive consulting services for non-process technologies in these primary areas: