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Diesel Engine Failure

APTECH was retained by an insurance company whose client, a power plant, owned a large Navy submarine-type stationary Diesel engine. The diesel engine had suffered mechanical failure that consisted of piston and bearing damage. We also examined the glow plug, injector, induction valve, compression ratio and precombustion chamber. APTECH established the failure mechanism and the root cause of the failure.

Satish Almaula		Plant failure and root cause analysis; process and design engineering analysis; process technology development and testing; plant engineering, operations, maintenance and safety management; plant and process control system management.

Eric Sullivan, P.E.		Engine failures, metallurgy, welding, failure analysis, turbines, piping.

Kimble Clark, Ph.D.		Failure analysis, heat transfer & thermodynamics, process plant equipment failures & explosions, fuel science, combustion, industrial fires and explosions.

Michael Cronin, P.E.		Stress analysis, design evaluation, engineering mechanics

Richard Schreiber, P.E.		Machinery and mechanical device failure analysis, mechanical testing, combustion and heat transfer, industrial fires and explosions, gas appliances.

Geoffrey Egan, Ph.D.		Engineering mechanics, welding engineering, stress and fatigue analysis, risk analysis, nondestructive examination, project management.