Technical Consultation

Antaal-Williams Engineering Consultants Ltd. represents an experienced team of engineers that don’t mind getting dirty while bringing value added innovative services and proven solution techniques to our customers. These technologies have been employed by our staff on projects within refineries; petrochemical facilities; combined cycle power plants, upstream oil units, solar, and nuclear power plant facilities. Antaal-Williams Engineering’s 43+ years of experience, training, and educational credentials allow us to provide timely and practical solutions within the framework defined by existing plant parameters, without sacrificing the accuracy of the engineering mechanics computations. We select the analysis software best suited for each specific engineering task, employing such analytical tools as ANSYS, STAAD.Pro, PTC Mathcad, CAESAR-II, CFX, Fluent, and AutoPIPE. It is always Antaal-Williams Engineering Consultants Ltd.’s goal to interface seamlessly with our customers providing expedient solutions, utilizing the most efficient simulation tools for the job.

Antaal-Williams Engineering Consultants Ltd. brings a total engineering services package to customers in the oil sands, SAG-D, nuclear and conventional power-generation, refinery and petrochemical industries. Antaal-Williams Engineering Consultants Ltd. has an experienced team of engineers and strongly believes in continuously working to bring value added innovative services and proven solution techniques to our customers, while ensuring a lasting business and technical relationship. These technologies have been employed by our staff on projects within oil sands, refinery units; upstream oil and gas units, petrochemical facilities; fossil, combined cycle power plants and nuclear power plant facilities. Antaal-Williams Engineering Consultants Ltd. provides timely and practical solutions to our customers within the framework defined by existing plant parameters, without sacrificing the accuracy of the engineering mechanics computations. It is always our goal to interface seamlessly with our customers to produce expedient, optimal solutions to your technical challenges, while utilizing the most current mechanics and simulation tools.

SPECIALISTS IN FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

A wide range of piping and mechanical equipment structural studies, including static, modal, harmonic, transient, seismic spectrum, and buckling analyses. Transient analyses include formulations for rigid body mechanisms analysis, mixed rigid/flexible analyses, and implicit and explicit solutions for high deformation or high velocity phenomena. Structural problems involving geometric nonlinearity and all possible configurations of contact in addition to having the capabilities of comprehensive library of linear and nonlinear material models and the ability to link heat transfer capabilities such as convection, conduction and radiosity to structural analyses. Whatever the structural engineering challenge associated with any piping or mechanical equipment problem, we will have the capabilities to deliver fast and accurate solutions.  We are a recognized leader in the implementation of computer aided solutions!

SPECIALISTS IN PIPING STRESS ANALYSIS

Unique solutions for process, power, oil and gas, nuclear, underground, offshore floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) platform and subsea pipeline areas with the potential to address at least 25 international piping codes. Advanced solutions include the capabilities to include built-in wave loading, buried pipeline analysis, jacketed piping, dynamic loadings, orthotropic fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP/GRP), and HDPE plastic piping analysis. Additional types of piping solutions include thermal stratification or bowing, thermal transient, pipe/structure interaction, fluid transient with closure time and relief valve utilities, advanced load sequencing, non-linear support gaps and friction, and jacketed piping. Local stress calculations performed in accordance with WRC 107, WRC 297, PD 5500, KHK, and API 650.

SPECIALISTS IN HIGH ENERGY PIPING & EOR

Antaal-Williams Engineering Consultants Ltd.’s staff engineers have designed, analyzed, and provided fabrication support for a wide variety of high temperature piping systems for the refinery, petrochemical, and the nuclear and conventional power industries. While there are several recognized piping analysis tools available on the market, detailed and rigorous analyses of piping attachments (including, but not limited to lugs and trunnions) are one of our fortes. Antaal-Williams Engineering Consultants Ltd. utilizes computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and closed form solutions to address the potential for steam hammer and other high-energy, dynamic events within judiciously selected regions of the piping system. In addition, Antaal-Williams’s staff members hold numerous U.S. patents in the design of high temperature superheated (SHS) steam generator systems for use in both small modular (nuclear) reactor systems and upstream Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) systems. The EOR SHS components are designed specifically for the extraction of heavy oils in deep wells (those over 5000 ft in depth) and can be employed in either existing wellbores or green-field installations where thermal stimulation is highly desirable.