The Mechanical Engineering Department encompasses the engineering and design talents of many technical personnel from the seasoned construction engineer through the Master's and Doctorate level academic specialist. The projects and service we supply to our clients stands as a testament to the commitment to excellence upon which M S Benbow and Associates was founded.

Areas of Expertise

• Stress analysis of process plant and refinery piping systems.
• Design and analysis including water hammer, slug flow, equipment loads, vibrations and fatigue analysis utilizing any industry accepted piping codes.
• Process plant layout and piping system design for all industries.
• Specification of piping material and all P&IDm PFD, fabrication and erection drawings for any plant.
• Unit walk-down and as built drawings.
• Specification of fixed and rotating plant equipment.
• Design and analysis of pressure equipment with extensive experience in new ASME vessel, API tank, TEMA and EJMA calculations, API 510 and NBIC rerates.
• Evaluate pressure equipment fitness for service, minimum wall calculations, mechanical integrity, corrosion averaging, WRC-107 calculations.
• Develop inspection programs and work with plant inspectors.
• Pre-turnaround vessel modeling.
• TML program development and applications.
• Design, specification and analysis of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning including specialized installations such as laboratory, testing facilities and computer "clean" rooms. 100% outside air laboratory and control room applications.
• Design and analysis of massive and complex hydraulic piping systems for incompressible flow including, but not limited to, flare headers, fire water systems, process and utility piping, etc.
• Perform pressure surveys and debottlenecking analysis.
• Perform relief valve studies and sizing.
• Design gas and oil transmission pipelines with offshore and inland industrial clients.
• Non-isothermal flow design and analysis of dust or particle collection systems and piping networks.
• Provide operations and maintenance support and troubleshooting of daily operations.
• Turnaround assistance: 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
• Emergency assistance: 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
• Development and management of OSHA Process Safety Management Program for existing and planned operations.
• Project Management: Planning, scheduling, estimating, coordinating and quality control.

Software

• Piping Design
  • AutoCad
  • CADWorx Factory Training
  • Pro-Pipe - Version 13.0
  • Pro-Iso - Version 13.0
  • Plantworld - Structural
  • STAAD - Structural
  • MicroStation
• Piping Stress Analysis
  • Ceaser II
  • Triflex
• Hydraulic Analysis
  • Hysim
  • Crane
• Pressure Equipment Design & Analysis
  • Ives - Horizontal & Vertical Vessels
  • Iflg - ASME Appendix 2 Flange Calculation
  • Inoz - WRC-107 Nozzle Loading
  • IPE - ASME B31G Corrosion Calculation
  • Compress - H & V Vessels
  • Codecalc - Vessel & Exchangers
• HVAC Design
  • Elite C HVAC
  • Elite Duct Size
• Project Management
  • Microsoft Project
  • Primavera Project Planner
  • Icarus
• Hydraulic Analysis
  • PipeWorks - Liquid/Gas Analysis
  • GasWorks - Compressible flow
  • Crane
  • Heat Trace - Steam/heat transfer