MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

  • Mechanical design.
  • Advice on all aspects of mechanical fabrication.
  • Pressure vessel & piping design and installation.
  • Vessels and tanks for the storage and processing of flammable liquids.
  • Fitness for Service assessments to AS1579-1 to extend the service of plant..
  • FEA (finite element analysis) & CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics.
  • Machinery assessment and maintenance.
  • 3D scanning of plant for modifications and extensions.

PROCESS ENGINEERING

  • Design of storage and handling facilities for flammable liquids, including the design of fire protection systems for the same.
  • The design of high-pressure gas compression facilities.
  • The optimisation of process systems including distillation systems, wellstream fluids processing, cooling water systems and glycol regeneration.
  • Facilitation of Hazops, LOPA studies, SIL reviews and risk assessments of all aspects of process plant, including pressure protection systems.
  • The design and application of heat exchangers.
  • Energy optimisation studies.
  • CO2 removal from natural gas and subsequent processing.
  • Optimisation of wood pulping / tissue manufacturing plants, including optimisation of energy usage (steam/gas/electricity/compressed air), reductions in emissions, and reductions in water usage.
  • Steam boilers and associate steam systems.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

  • Design of site-wide AC power services, including earthing, bonding, cable selections, switchboards, transformers, both low voltage and medium voltage
  • Electric motor – drive systems, either DOL or via Variable Speed Drives (VSD).
  • Embedded power generation, standby gensets and backup power supply systems.
  • Electrical audits and energy assessments

INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING

  • Design, installation and commissioning of plant-wide instrumentation systems, including where flammable liquids & gases are stored and processed. This includes problematic level and flow sensing in industrial plants.
  • Advice on instrument selection for difficult applications.
  • Design & commissioning of industrial gas-fired appliances, including boilers, gas-fuel engines, flares, pilot burners and combustion systems.
  • Assessment and certification of gas-fired appliances (endorsed via WorkSafe, NZ)
  • Zoning of gas hazardous areas due to the presence of flammable gases or liquids.
    Also zoning of dust hazard zones. 
  • Electronics design, manufacturing & fault finding.

CONTROLS ENGINEERING

  • Boiler Controls and Burner Management systems, including assessment for service, design, installation & commissioning.
  • Development of ‘Functional Descriptions’ (used to program a control system) for a number of industrial processes and power plants.
  • Control system design, including in plants processing harmful or flammable products.
  • Lead or facilitate Chazop studies (control system hazard and operability study) to identify possible issues with the control system of the associated instruments and actuated field devices.

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

A variety of structural engineering services as required


CIVIL ENGINEERING

A variety of civil engineering services as required