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A city hospital noted the presence of contaminants in the filters in the oxygen piping leading to the incubators in the maternity ward. The hospital quickly switched over to their back-up oxygen system. APTECH was hired by an insurance company to find the source of the contamination. A field examination revealed the source to be due to a through-wall penetration caused by external corrosion in an underground copper pipe. This piping was replaced.

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.

Philip Lindsay, P.E.		Corrosion failure analysis, metallurgy, piping systems, corrosion mitigation, materials selection.

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

Jeffrey Grover, P.E.		Mechanical engineering, failure analysis, civil engineering.