Power generation failures carry consequences that extend well beyond the immediate equipment damage, such as extended plant downtime, regulatory investigations, insurance disputes, and litigation. These situations require engineering findings grounded in direct knowledge of how generation systems are designed, operated, and maintained.
ESi's power generation consultants bring broad experience across the full range of generation technologies, including fossil fuel, nuclear, hydroelectric, combined-cycle, and battery storage systems. The team includes mechanical, electrical, chemical, and materials engineers with direct experience evaluating failures in boilers, compressors, steam and hydraulic systems, gas turbines, and high-voltage electrical infrastructure.
This combination of thermal, mechanical, and electrical expertise allows ESi to address the interconnected failure mechanisms that power generation incidents typically present, without requiring clients to coordinate multiple firms holding different pieces of the technical picture.
In-house capabilities include computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, metallurgical and fractographic examination, fitness-for-service assessment, and weld quality evaluation, giving ESi's consultants the analytical tools to characterize failures, assess equipment condition, and reconstruct incident sequences to the highest standards of practice.
Meet Our Power Generation TeamPower Generation Applications
Power generation investigations span multiple engineering disciplines, requiring analysts who understand the engineering principles involved and the specific operating environments, codes, and standards that govern generation equipment and facilities. These applications represent the most common contexts in which ESi's power generation consulting team is retained.
Equipment & System Failures
Failures in power generation facilities generate significant operational and financial consequences. ESi reconstructs failure sequences to establish cause within the equipment's design and maintenance history and determine whether the failure originated in design, materials, fabrication, or operation.
Safety Device & Protection System Analysis
ESi evaluates safety valves, emergency shutdown systems, and protection system devices to determine condition and performance history, assess compliance with applicable codes and maintenance standards, and determine whether a protection system failure contributed to an incident or loss.
Fatigue & Degradation Analysis
Our consultants apply fatigue analysis and fitness-for-service evaluation to characterize long-term degradation mechanisms, assess remaining service life, and determine whether inspection and maintenance programs were adequate to detect deterioration before failure.
Regulatory Compliance & Code Assessment
With a deep understanding of federal, state, and industry regulatory requirements, we evaluate design, construction, and operational compliance, identify deviations from applicable codes, and provide expert testimony on whether those deviations contributed to an incident or loss.
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William R. Broz, Principal
ESi Power Generation Capabilities
- Root Cause Analysis of System Failures
- Metallurgical Analysis of System Components
- Fatigue and Creep Analysis
- Procedures, Quality, and NDE of Welded Joints
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Solid Finite Element Analysis
- Compliance of Systems to Governing Codes
- ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code
- ASME Power Piping Code, B31.1
- Analysis of Piping Stresses, Forces, and Displacements
- Fracture Mechanics
- Analysis of Operational, Process, and Protection System Data
- Fitness for Service Analysis
- Voltage Stability and Power Quality
- Industrial Control Systems
- Electric Safety, Guarding, and Labeling
- Design Optimization
- Maintenance Procedures
- Regulatory Compliance
- Safety Valves and Manifolds
Why Clients Choose ESi
Power generation matters that reach litigation, regulatory review, or insurance proceedings require engineering consultants whose findings can be defended under rigorous technical and adversarial scrutiny. ESi is retained for matters involving complex systems with financial exposure and a need for quality engineering analysis.
Multi-Disciplinary Coverage
ESi's power generation consulting team can span thermal, mechanical, electrical, chemical, and materials engineering in a single engagement, rather than requiring clients to manage multiple firms with independent methodologies and potentially conflicting findings.
Code-Based Analysis
Power generation disputes frequently turn on whether equipment met applicable standards. Our consultants apply code-based analysis as a standard component of every failure investigation, ensuring findings are grounded in industry-wide technical standards.
Advanced Analytical Capabilities
Our consultants have the tools to characterize equipment failures at the level of precision that litigation and regulatory proceedings demand. Physical evidence is examined in-house under protocols designed to maintain chain of custody and produce admissible results.
Expert Witness Experience
ESi’s power generation consultants provide expert testimony and litigation support, even against significant adverse claims. Reports are prepared to applicable evidentiary standards, and consultants are experienced in defending opinions under cross-examination.
Early Mobilization for Evidence Preservation
Power generation incidents involve evidence that degrades rapidly. ESi can mobilize immediately following an incident to document conditions, preserve critical physical evidence, and establish analytical protocols before the window for forensic examination closes.
