Refinery, Sugar and Other Steam and Power Plants

Sheppard T. Powell Associates, LLC (STPA) has provided consulting services to a variety of steam and power plants. Following is a list of industries or facilities STPA has served.

Buildings or Campus Systems (Academies, Airports, Building Complexes, Hospitals, Universities, etc.)
Chemical Processing Plants
District Heating Plants
Refineries
Saw Mills
Steel Mills
Sugar Mills

The following list is a sampling of the types of projects and services some of our current consulting staff have experience providing for industrial steam or steam and power plants.

Boiler water treatment reviews or program evaluations.
Steam purity monitoring and control. STPA has been involved in normal chemistry monitoring, upgrading monitoring systems, and boiler water carryover investigations.
Steam/water cycle chemistry, deposition and corrosion. STPA has been involved in audits of chemistry sampling, online monitoring systems, laboratory testing, chemistry programs, chemistry limit compliance, troubleshooting, and training.
Waterside inspections of steam generation equipment and deaerators as part of an assessment of the success of the water treatment program in controlling corrosion and deposition.
Chemical feed systems and feedwater and boiler water treatment.
Makeup water treatment selection, evaluation, troubleshooting and training.
Condensate filtration, polishing, and contaminant detection and control.
Tube sample selection, deposit weight and composition analyses, determining the need to clean, failure analyses and other metallurgical evaluations.
Investigations of boiler tube failures, boiler tube deposits, deaerator corrosion, superheater tube failures, and turbine deposition and corrosion.
Chemical cleanings planning, specification development, and consulting assistance during chemical cleanings
Layup of boilers.
Cooling tower water, secondary water systems, hot water systems, and high-temperature hot water heating systems treatment and corrosion control evaluation.