Utility Engineering Services
Professional Engineering and Consulting Services -  Since 1984, Thielsch Engineering has provided a broad range of engineering services to chemical processing plants, refineries, fertilizer plants, power plants, pulp and paper mills, and other industrial facilities.  The personnel performing these services have extensive hands-on experience.  In total, our professional engineering staff has well over 200 years of experience providing the following engineering services:
  • Failure analyses involving cause and origin determinations of catastrophic and leak-type failures of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, compressors, boilers, turbines, tanks, piping and other equipment and components.
  • Condition assessment of plant equipment and components integrity analyses, remaining life determinations, and fitness-for-purpose determinations.
  • Welding engineering and consultation on repairs of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, piping and other equipment.
  • Supervision of weld repairs in the most expeditious manner and in accordance with applicable codes and standards, and the best metallurgical engineering considerations.
  • Project and construction management.
  • Maintenance outage management.
  • Program development and implementation in accordance with Best Management Practices (BMP) regulations per EPA requirements and OSHA CRF 1910-119 requirements for Process Safety Management (PSM).
  • Design analyses, stress analyses, and finite element analyses.
  • Pipe support walkdown inspection, analysis, adjustment and maintenance.
  • Complete laboratory testing services including metallurgical, mechanical, analytical, environmental, chemical, corrosion, creep and fatigue testing.
  • Nondestructive examination (RT, UT, PT, MT, VT) and certified welding inspection.
  • Expert witness and litigation support.
  • Risk-management determinations of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, components, piping,
    tanks and rotating equipment.
  • Computerized data management software programs for preventative maintenance, inspection and engineering evaluations.
  • Seminar presentations on "failures, failure prevention and repairs of pressure vessels, piping,
    boilers and rotating machinery, and remaining life considerations", conducted over periods of three to five days.

Call us to find out more about:

  • Corrosion Engineering Assessment of All Types of Corrosion Damage
  • Creep, Stress Rupture and Strain Gage Testing Erosion / Corrosion Evaluations
  • Engineering Design and Analyses
  • Finite Element, Stress, Fatigue, Vibrations, etc.
  • Fracture Mechanics
  • Material Selection Evaluations and Recommendations
  • Metallurgical Examinations / Evaluations / Analyses
  • Microbiological Corrosion / Water Testing
  • On-Site and Laboratory Coupon Testing

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For more information contact:
Peter Kennefick, Vice President
Tel: (401) 467-6454
Fax: (401) 461-6006
E-mail: pkennefick@thielsch.com


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