Norton Engineering

Norton Engineering’s highly experienced process and equipment specialists can assist clients in deciding what work will need to be accomplished during an upcoming turnaround. We assist clients in developing plans to accomplish fieldwork in the shortest time and at the lowest cost while also ensuring that the unit or equipment will provide maximum long term value to our clients.

Norton’s engineers assist clients in evaluating and executing advance work on emissions control equipment, fired heaters and boilers, CO boilers and heaters, reactors, heat exchangers, pumps, separators and polymer extrusion and finishing facilities. We have helped save clients millions of dollars in labor costs and reduced T/A project risk.

We have assisted several clients during recent planned and unplanned turnarounds completing discovery and fitness for service inspections on fired heaters, boilers, towers, reactors, heat exchangers, fluid solids systems, FCC scrubbers, electrostatic precipitators, waste water treatment facilities, utility systems, etc. In all these cases our clients have trusted us with development of repair and reconditioning recommendations and in most cases we developed the details and supervised the field work too.

Not to be overlooked, Norton’s highly experienced engineers have been instrumental in guiding clients to perform only the work necessary to achieve operating and reliability targets for equipment and systems – You have too much work and too little time in a turnaround to be doing things that are not needed.

Norton’s engineers assist clients in implementing safety systems and environmental compliance projects minimizing work within a turnaround. We have recently completed over 25 SIS/BMS projects and assisted clients with 10+ FCC environmental control projects. All executed successfully with minimum turnaround work. Norton Engineering has provided operations support for projects when start-up extends beyond the turnaround to ensure a safe start-up of new and modified facilities without impacting operations.

Norton Engineering’s Turnaround Guidelines

1. Know what has to be done and what does not have to be done.
2. Plan for what you know, moving as much of the work as possible outside the turnaround, either before or after.
3. Discovery inspections will turn-up new things which may or may not need to be addressed. An experienced team of mechanical, materials, inspection, equipment and process engineers will be needed to sort out the nice-to-have from the necessary. Focus on what is necessary; the nice-to-have is just that.
4. Some short-cuts are OK. It takes experience to figure out which ones are OK and which can be unsafe, operationally unsound or compromise reliability.

Contact Norton Engineering today to find out how the breadth and depth of our engineers’ experience can be leveraged to optimize your turnaround.