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An after-hours fire occurred in a fast-food restaurant. The fire department traced the fire's origin to a store room in the rear of the building. An independent fire investigator theorized that arcing from a faulty electric light switch ignited common combustibles. APTECH was hired by the electrical subcontractor to perform an engineering evaluation of the electric switch. Our examinations led to the conclusion that the switch could have been damaged as the result of the fire rather than having been the fire cause.

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.

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

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