SUMMARIES OF QUALIFICATIONS OF SOME
MGT NETWORK MEMBERS
Ted
L. Anderson, President Quest Reliability, Boulder, CO
Dr. Anderson has over 20 years of experience as a teacher, researcher, and practitioner of fracture mechanics and fitness-for-service methods. Prior to founding SRT (now Quest Reliability) in 1995, he was a member of the Mechanical Engineering faculty at Texas A&M University for 10 years. Before coming to Texas A&M, he was a Senior Research Engineer at The Welding Institute in Cambridge, England. He received a Ph.D. in metallurgy from the Colorado School of Mines in 1983. He is the author of a best-selling book on fracture mechanics (third edition), which has been adopted as a required text in numerous universities throughout the world. He was instrumental in the development of the API 579 fitness-for-service document. He is active on American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Committee E-8 on Fatigue and Fracture and is a former Regional Editor for the International Journal of Fracture. His company specializes in consulting, training and software development in the areas of fitness-for-service assessment, finite element analysis, and failure analysis.
He was instrumental in the development of the API 579 fitness-for-service document. He is active on American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Committee E-8 on Fatigue and Fracture and is a former Regional Editor for the International Journal of Fracture. His company specializes in consulting, training and software development in the areas of fitness-for-service assessment, finite element analysis, and failure analysis.
Quest Reliability's facility is located at:
2465 Central Avenue, Suite 110
Boulder, CO 80301
Telephone (303) 415-1475
Dr. Anderson's direct dial number is (303) 318-4110
His mobile phone
number is (303) 641-8827
E-mail Dr. Anderson at tanderson@mgt-inc.com
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Carl F. Andreone, P.E., Fellow
of the ASME |
Carl is registered in Massachusetts. He was President of Heat Transfer Consultants, Inc. until 2001, but now practices as an individual contractor. He was a Staff Consultant at Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, Boston MA, and held several other positions from 1970 to his retirement in 1991. Before joining Stone & Webster he was a heat exchanger specialist with Badger America and Crawford & Russell Inc.
He gained broad experience as a maintenance engineer on refinery exchangers at Aramco. His career includes nearly a decade with Lummus Heat Exchanger Division (now Yuba Heat Transfer Corporation) as an application and product engineer on power and process heat exchangers. Mr. Andreone has been continuously active in the heat exchanger industry since 1951. His work in this field has involved specification, design, maintenance and repair of more than 3,000 power and process heat exchangers.
From 1981 to the present he has assisted in trouble-shooting, failure analysis, repair, modification and replacement of more than 400 feedwater heaters at various power stations.
From 1982 through the present, he and Stanley Yokell have presented annual seminars on Closed Feedwater Heaters and Inspection, Maintenance and Repair of Tubular Exchangers. He is the author of numerous papers on feedwater heaters and tubular heat transfer equipment. With Mr. Yokell he has written, Tubular Heat Exchanger Inspection, Maintenance and Repair, published by McGraw-Hill Book Company 1997.
Mr. Andreone served on the ASME Power Division Heat Exchanger Committee. He has served on the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Committee's Special Working Group on Heat Transfer Equipment, and the ASME Codes and Standards Committee for the ASME/ANSI Performance Test Code 12.1, Closed Feedwater Heaters. Mr. Andreone received the B. Ch. E. from Villanova University.
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Jack Burns, P.E., Fellow of
the ASME |
Jack Burns is a nationally-known expert on cooling systems who has contributed to the field for over 40 years. He is the Director of Engineering for Burns Engineering Services, a specialty-niche engineering consulting firm devoted exclusively to improving power plant cooling systems, with a particular focus on the technology of condensers and cooling towers. The company has serviced over 40 major utilities worldwide with engineering and design work.
Prior to his current position, Jack consulted for the Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation for 25 years, as the condenser and cooling tower specialist. Before joining Stone & Webster, Mr. Burns was the Manager of Engineering Development for the Condenser Division of the Ingersoll-Rand Company, a major condenser manufacturer.
Jack currently chairs several national American Society of Mechanical Engineering Test Code Committees: PTC 12.2, the recently published ASME Condenser Test Code; PTC 23, the about to be published Cooling Tower Test Code; and PTC 30.1, the new, in-process draft, Air Cooled Condenser Test Code. He was a former Director of the Cooling Technology Institute, and holds a patent in Direct Contact Condenser technology.
In
2002, Jack was privileged to receive both the ASME Distinguished Service
Award and Performance Test Codes Medal. He has published over 35 articles
and papers in the area of cooling systems. Mr. Burns is a registered
Professional Engineer in several states. He received a Bachelor’s
Degree in Marine Engineering from the New York Maritime College and an
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University.
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Walter J. Sperko, P.E., Fellow of
the ASME |
Walter is the President of Sperko Engineering Services, Inc., Greensboro, NC. Among its other activities, Sperko Engineering prepares and conducts training programs in piping, welding and metallurgy.
Since 1981 Walter Sperko has consulted in the metal fabrication industries in the technical areas of welding, metallurgy, manufacturing processes, piping and pressure vessel design, including providing expert witness services in welding and metallurgy. Walter is the Technical Consultant to the National Certified Pipe Welding Bureau.
He is the Vice-Chairman of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Committee's Section IX - Welding and Brazing Requirements, and serves on Subcommittee II, Subgroup on Strength of Weldments, and Subcommittee III (Nuclear) Materials, Fabrication and Examination Subgroup. He also serves on the ASME B31 Standards Committee and is the Chairman of ASME B31.9 Building Services Piping subcommittee. He is the Past-Chairman of AWS Committee D-10, Piping and Tubing, Chairman of the AWS International Standards Activities Committee (ISAC) and a member of the AWS Technical Activities Committee.
He holds US Patent 4932160, Quick-Opening Pressure Vessel Closure, US Patent 5072960, Loading Cart Method. US Patent 6269674 Tubular Fitting tool and Method, US Patent 7013699 Pipe Fitting and Tool Method.
He has instructed Pressure Vessel Inspectors in the National Board of Boiler and Pressure vessels' (NBIC's) training programs of National Board Certified Inspectors and Inspector Supervisors. Since 1978 he has presented three-day courses in Welding and Brazing per ASME Section IX and Piping Design, Analysis and Fabrication.
He was the Quality Control Manager of the RECO North Carolina, Inc. Division of Richmond Engineering Company from 1979 to 1981. At ITT Grinnell Industrial Piping, Inc. he was the Manager, Materials and Welding Engineering from 1974 to 1979, where his responsibilities included writing and qualifying all welding, fabrication, heat-treating, and quality control procedures, and providing technical support for the fabrication and erection of nuclear and conventional power piping and petroleum and chemical piping. Walter was a Materials Engineer with Ebasco Services Inc., New York City from 1969 to 1974.
He is registered in North Carolina, New Hampshire and Ohio. He has been recognized by the American Welding Society as Counselor (2007) and by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as a Fellow (2007).
Dr. Jerry Taborek, Fellow of the A. I. Ch. E
Email: jtaborek@mgt-inc.com
Jerry is the President of Dr. Jerry Taborek, Inc., Sedona, AZ. Since 1985 he has consulted on research project management, heat transfer research, design and performance verification of heat exchangers, patent litigation, and computer program development. During this period he has been an international lecturer on many aspects of heat transfer.
He was a co-founder and Technical Director of Heat Transfer Research Inc. from 1962 through 1985, responsible for project initiation to completion, supervising a staff of 15 PhDs and their supporting personnel while operating with an annual budget of $3,000,000. Major accomplishments in this period were development of computational methods, including: the stream analysis method for shell-side flow; tube-side laminar flow; flow boiling; kettle reboilers; condensation flow regimes; fouling; tube vibration etc.
From 1985 through 1986 he did research into pool boiling at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany and lectured at several European Universities.
Previously he was a Development Engineer and Group Leader for Development of computer programs for heat exchanger design with Phillips Petroleum Co. He began his career as a Design Engineer with Massey-Ferguson Co., Toronto, Ont., Canada.
Dr. Taborek chaired the AIChE's Heat Transfer Division 1970 through 1971. He is the recipient of the Donald Q. Kern Award, the AIChE Memorial Heat Transfer Award, the Alexander V. Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (the highest award for foreigners granted by the German Ministry of Science), the Trenter International Achievements Award of the University of Liege, Belgium, the Andre Wilkins Memorial Award, AIChE Oklahoma State Award, the Technical Achievements Award, AIChE California State Award and is the author of approximately 70 papers and presenter of numerous lectures on heat transfer subjects.
He received the Dr. Eng. degree in Thermodynamics from
the University of Dresden. Among his many educational activities, Dr.
Taborek has presented
lectures and courses in Canada, Germany, the UK, the US, Japan, the Netherlands,
Saudi Arabia, Portugal, and Russia.
H. Nelson Thompson
Email: Nelson.Thompson@mgt-inc.com
Mr Thompson was employed in various engineering capacities by the Southern Company for many years. His experience includes approximately 10 years of writing specifications, performing inspections, and conducting performance tests on feedwater heaters. For the last several years he worked in the Philippines, but is now based in Georgia. Nelson has performed in excess of 300 routine tests and more than 75 acceptance tests to PTC 12.1-1978 Mr. Thompson has a BS in Nuclear Engineering from Mississippi State University and an additional Major in Chemical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
He has served on the ASME PTC 12.1 Committee and on the
Electric Power Research Institute's (EPRI) Heat Exchanger Advisory Group.
He is the author of
a number of technical papers on heat exchangers and has chaired sessions
of the EPRI Feedwater Heater Symposia.
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Stanley Yokell, PE, Fellow
of the ASME |
Stanley is registered in Colorado, Illinois and New Jersey. He is President of MGT Inc., Boulder, Colorado and a Consultant to HydroPro, Inc., San Jose, California, manufacturers of the HydroPro® system for heat exchanger tube hydraulic expanding, the BoilerPro® system for hydraulically expanding tubes into boiler drums and tubesheets, and the HydroProof® system for testing tube-to-tubesheet and tube-to-boiler drum joints.
From 1976 to 1979 Mr. Yokell was a Vice-president of Ecolaire Inc. and President and Director of its PEMCO subsidiary. From 1971 to 1976 he was President of Process Engineering and Machine Company, Inc, (PEMCO) of Elizabeth, New Jersey, a major manufacturer of heat exchangers and pressure vessels, where he held the position of Vice-president and Chief Engineer from its founding in 1953. Previously he held the positions of Process Engineer and Sales Manager at Industrial Process Engineers, Newark, New Jersey and Shift Supervisor at Kolker Chemical Works, Newark New Jersey.
Mr. Yokell works in analyzing and specifying requirements, construction and uses, troubleshooting and life extension of tubular heat transfer equipment. He is well-known as a specialist on tube-to-tubesheet joining of tubular heat exchangers and maintenance and repair of tubular heat exchangers.
He renders technical assistance to attorneys and serves as an Expert Witness. Mr. Yokell's more than 48 years of work in the field has involved design and construction of more than 3,000 tubular heat exchangers, design and manufacture of process equipment, consulting on maintenance and repair of a variety of process heat exchangers and pressure vessels, feedwater heaters and power-plant auxiliary heat exchangers. From 1979 to the present he has assisted in troubleshooting, failure analysis, repair, modification and replacement of process and power heat exchangers.
Each year from 1981 through the present Mr. Yokell has presented two or three four-day short, intensive courses on Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers-Mechanical Aspects at various locations in the US, Canada, South America and Europe. During this period, he has also presented in collaboration with Mr. Andreone annual seminars on Closed Feedwater Heaters and Inspection, Maintenance and Repair of Tubular Exchangers. In addition he has provided in-plant training to the maintenance forces of several oil refineries, chemical plants and power stations.
Mr. Yokell is the author of numerous papers on tubular heat transfer equipment including tube-to-tubesheet joints, troubleshooting and application of the ASME Code. He is the author of A Working Guide to Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1990. With Mr. Andreone he has written, Tubular Heat Exchanger Inspection, Maintenance and Repair, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York 1997. He holds two patents.
Mr. Yokell serves on the ASME Code Section VIII's Special Working Group on Heat Transfer Equipment and is a member of the AIChE, the ASNT, the AWS and the NSPE. Mr. Yokell received the B. Ch. E. from New York University.
Available on a contract basis
H.B. Carey
Email: H.B.Carey@mgt-inc.com
H. B. is the president of Carey Consulting, Inc. of Edmonton, Kentucky. Mr. Carey specializes in hands-on fabrication and inspection of heat transfer equipment, including shell-and-tube exchangers, air coolers, feedwater heaters and surface condensers. He has wide practical experience in the fabrication and repair of heat exchangers and pressure vessels built in accordance with the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code.
His range of experience and knowledge includes: print reading, layout, plate forming, fit-up, welding, inspection, quality control, tube bundle fabrication, and tube expansion using rolling and Hydroexpanding equipment.
Mr. Carey was most recently the superintendent of a heat exchanger shop specializing in the design, fabrication, repair and retubing heat exchangers. Previously he was the foreman of boilermakers, welders, fitters and machinists. Mr. Carey's wide knowledge began with his service in the US Navy where he held the rating of Boiler tender. Upon his honorable discharge after four years of service, he became a boilermaker, welder, fitter and plate former with Southwestern Engineering Company (SWECO), the predecessor company to Senior Engineering where he served for nine years, and ended his shop career with twenty-eight years at Redman Equipment & Manufacturing Company of Torrance, California.
Mr. Carey participated in constructing the first feedwater heaters built
at Southwestern Engineering. He is available on a contract bases for supervision
of disassembly and inspection of the interiors of closed feedwater heaters.
His availability and rate will be provided upon request.