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As part of a dispute concerning insurance coverage, APTECH was retained to provide expert knowledge concerning refinery hydrocracker design, operating and maintenance practices. A refiner continued to operate a pressurized refinery column after a leak in the column was discovered by its personnel. APTECH was asked to address the question of whether or not local refinery personnel expected or intended that the leak would migrate or progress offsite. APTECH reviewed the case documentation, conducted a site visit, wrote reports and provided litigation support.

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.

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

Eric Sullivan, P.E.		Metallurgy, welding, failure analysis, fire and explosion investigations, equipment, piping.

Steven Kohan, Ph.D.		Chemical engineering, refinery processes, toxic fume generation.

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.