Industrial Equipment Design

We have the experience and the tools necessary to accomplish design of the following types of equipment:

• Boiler Design

  • Conventional-Fuel Fired

  • Biomass-Fired

  • Waste Heat Boilers

• Pressure Vessels

• Fluid Heaters (single-phase)

• Nuclear Reactor Components

• Heat Exchangers

• Electro-mechanical Devices

• Heat Pipes

• Composite Structures

We have experience designing and manufacturing equipment to various codes and standards such as

• ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code, Sections I, III, IV & VIII

• MIL-STD-810 "ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING CONSIDERATIONS AND LAB TESTS"

• ISO-9000

• ASME NQA-1 "Nuclear Quality Assurance"

• TEMA Class R, C & B

• API-560 "Fired Heaters for General Refinery Service"

• IPC-A-610 "Acceptability of Electronic Assemblies"

• J-STD-001 "Requirements for Soldered Electrical and Electronic Assemblies"

For almost any mechanical or electro-mechanical equipment design, we can provide a cost/benefit analysis, optimization, and supplier evaluation to ensure purchasing and engineering requirements & expectations are met.

Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)

We can provide computational analysis services for all of your structural, thermal, and fluid problems, including transient and multi-physics interactions.  We specialize in:

• Finite Element Analysis (FEA),

• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD),

• Custom numerical modeling/computer programming in various languages.

We can also automate of your design process by making use of the latest computer technology to enable users to input basic design information, and produce detailed assembly drawings in one quick operation, by making use of advanced programming features in SolidWorks, Mathcad, and Visual-Basic.  An example of this would be where detailed heat exchanger fabrication drawings are produced when only basic thermal design information is provided (i.e., tube length, spacing of tubes, and number of rows).

Computer Aided Design (CAD)

All design work is performed using SolidWorks 3-D.  This software is capable of reading and saving files in other formats such as AutoCad, ParaSolid, CadKey, SolidEdge, and Pro/Engineer.  Click on the following link to view an example of a tubular heat exchanger "coil" created in SolidWorks: HEAT EXCHANGER COIL

Testing

• Design of experiments,

• Data collection and reduction,

• Boiler efficiency testing to ASME PTC-4,

• Test plans, test procedures, and reports,

• Pre-test & post-test measurement uncertainty analysis to ASME PTC-19.1 "Test Uncertainty."

Technical Writing

• Manufacturing and Operating Procedures to standard quality assurance guidelines

  • ISO-9000

  • ASME NQA-1

• Operation & Maintenance Manuals

• Reports