Special Note: Becht 2022 Annual Review

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Published: January 9, 2023

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By: Carlos Becht IV , CEO of Becht, CEO of Helidex, LLC, and President of the Becht Industrial Group. January 9, 2023

Last year was notable for geopolitical events and higher margins. It was great for us to be able to meet our customers and colleagues in person once again. Throughout the year, Becht continued to work on ways to deliver greater value to our customers.

Some of the areas where our clients found this value include:

Becht’s industry-leading Joint Industry Project (JIP) on High Temperature Hydrogen Attack (HTHA) is unique in integrating an advanced and widely validated damage model with all inspection levels to provide a safe and practical solution for cumulative damage quantification and remaining life prediction. Our program offers true fitness for service of damaged equipment to enable safe, timely replacement.
Our holistic approach to energy optimization helped generate CO ₂ emission reductions, indicative capital cost estimates, and initial project risk assessments to support a corporate strategy review session . , drawing on our collective expertise in energy.
In 2022, Becht supported multiple clients with Energy Transition Projects ; evaluating brownfield renovations, reuse of existing assets, and greenfield facilities to process renewable raw materials to produce renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel blends. Through our extensive bank of experts, we can provide a pathway to meeting overall targets and provide insight into the carbon economics and incentives that will be required to achieve Scope 1, 2 and 3 reduction targets.
On-site training is back! With the integration of RPS, Becht tripled the number of Training Courses offered both publicly and privately, especially in the areas of process technology. Becht conducted its first large-scale in-person public training (5-week session) in Houston, TX. Plans will continue into next year with several training blocks in Houston and potential face-to-face public growth in Europe.
Becht ha hecho realidad el monitoreo inalámbrico de la integridad de equipos en múltiples sitios. Ahora estamos brindando avances en el monitoreo inalámbrico de tambores de coque mientras reducimos el costo total y expandimos el análisis del sistema y la flexibilidad de escalabilidad. Nuestro software HMS de tambor de coque basado en la web toma datos y los hace realmente utilizables.
Ammonia/syngas networks started in Asia and America, EMEA to come ! The nitrogen, ammonia, hydrogen, urea, and syngas industries are vital to the production of various petrochemicals for global consumption. Becht hosts quarterly networking events to bring industry members together to discuss lessons learned about these complex process plants and share knowledge to help each other get the final product to market.
The steam methane reformer is a critical and often problematic asset. Becht has worked with numerous syngas owners to investigate their stream failures and found that most failures could have been prevented by applying the SMR Gap Analysis Assessment from Becht, which establishes deficiencies in critical design and construction, process, and inspection controls.
In 2022, Becht developed the Stream Compatibility Model that allows mixing different streams (crude, atmospheric bottoms, vacuum bottoms, FCC sludge, etc.) to assess the potential compatibility risk of the resulting mix. The model is based on six different factors to generate an overall prediction and gives the user a view of the overall risk profile.
This year, Becht doubled the BechtCONNECT customer base, while developing enhanced customer features such as manager approval, KPI request, global search, and an expanded knowledge library. Based on customer feedback, we now offer discounts on our training courses by combining TSA | BechtCONNECT offer with a routine training program.
Becht Industrial Group (BIG) is a mechanical contractor specializing in production shutdowns, major maintenance activities, and other scheduled projects with the sole purpose of “helping our partners win.” BIG’s experienced executive team is committed to safety, quality and performance, and has developed strong relationships with other strategic partners.
The Fitness-for-Service tool was incorporated into the DNV platform . DNV’s Synergi Plant software for maintenance and integrity management of petrochemical plants, refineries and process plants integrates our state-of-the-art FFS solution following an agreement between DNV and Becht. The FFS tool helps plant operators determine if equipment is safe for continued service or guides critical run, replace, and repair decisions.
IR borescope technology was originally developed for olefin heaters and is now being upgraded for lower temperature applications found in most refineries. Heaters with poor viewing window installations can be fully observed while online, helping to detect abnormal operations and hot spots without cutting new viewing windows.
The Goldcup Contact Pyrometer is the most accurate in-line temperature measurement ever developed, as it creates a black body cavity in the tube with the in-line heater. The new generation of Becht will have modular configurations to allow application to many more styles of heaters (vertical cylindrical and cabin heaters) to bring high precision capability to many more common heater designs.
In addition to helping plants with traditional project management consulting, Becht is helping low-carbon and alternative fuel megaprojects with experience in production assurance (from FEL 0 to start) to provide greater reliability of safe, stable and sustainable production at the start and throughout the process. asset life.
CorrExpert-Crude has been extended to function as a framework for the continuous evaluation and quantification of corrosion of mixtures and tests. Additionally, with the system’s ability to track the sulfur barrier layer protective from the use of high sulfur crude blends, case studies are underway to show how operators can take advantage of the growth and consumption of the layer. of time-dependent barrier by naphthenic acid corrosion as a way to optimize processing. a diverse group of raw baskets.