Our engineering consultancy work

DOCAN were contracted to validate and optimise a piping system design for use within a highly corrosive and erosive oil refinery.

Using Crackwise to perform Fitness-For-Service (FFS) Assessments of crack-like defects in critical components, such as piping and pressure vessels.

Making improvements to the prototype design of equipment which employs high speed and high energy impacts through explicit FEA.

DOCAN were contracted to perform Fitness For Service Assessment services to determine if a biodiesel storage tank was still safe to operate.

We can provide a bespoke team with decades of project experience, large and small, to perform an independent health check of your project.

Supporting our client in performing the structural design and analysis for a tank replacement access platform.

We were contracted to perform structural design and analysis for modification to an existing plant structure.

Calculating Minimum Design Metal Temperature to guarantee the resilience of heat exchangers against brittle fracture in hydrostatic testing.

DOCAN were contracted by Moltex Flex to assist with engineering input into the development of their reactor.

Many of our refinery-based projects have required a Reverse Engineering service in order to facilitate the larger project.

We produced an engineering documentation pack for a pressure vessel for which there is currently no existing documentation.

This project was to determine the flow co-efficient (Cv) curves for two size configurations of a choke through Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Applying CFD methods to understand how fluid flowed throughout the food production product and the sensitivity to design changes.

One of DOCAN’s clients had an issue where high-pressure drilling mud pumps were occasionally starving.

DOCAN have been supporting Webster Technologies in the design and development of their ROCKHIT and ROCKWHEEL equipment.

DOCAN supported a UK client on the Structural Design, Analysis and Code assessment of a structure supporting a ducting system.

We performed a decommissioning assessment of a large +400 tonne, 65m tall pressure vessel to verify its structural integrity.

We evaluated a steam line of part of a power generation system which had experienced a circumferential crack and began releasing high pressure.

DOCAN's services can help improve your quality systems without the need to allocate valuable internal resources.

We conducted an assessment of oil & gas equipment to ensure that it would remain safe under new, increased, operating conditions.

A silencer for a high-pressure steam vent line required validation in the event of pressure safety valve (PSV) opening on a UK power station.

Our client required manufacturing drawings for the purpose of sending out Requests For Quote as part of a cost-saving exercise.

Our SME client required additional engineering resource to support a New Product Development (NPD) project.

DOCAN designed the repair processes, methodology and specifications for the repair of a defect pressure vessel.

One of DOCAN’s clients had discovered external corrosion around the insulation support rings of their pressure vessel that needed repair.

DOCAN performed Fitness for Service assessments to verify that pressure vessel repairs could be conducted whilst still maintaining its structural i...

Slugging problems may be anticipated and mitigated by detailed CFD analysis using software such as Cradle. Cradle is a proven, state of art, world ...

We developed a tool which would quickly generate material stress-strain curve data for a range of different materials.

DOCAN were contracted to perform a Fitness For Service Assessment on a high-pressure pipeline to determine if the defect was safe for continued ope...

DOCAN faced many challenges in this project, including assessing over 100 areas of corrosion in an efficient manner according to API 579, requiring...

MARC has broad capabilities for user adaptation using FORTRAN coding. One particularly useful feature is to allow users to define calculated values...

FE codes often provide tools for postprocessing, however different codes offer different tools, and sometimes we may need to use a tool which isn’t...

One of DOCAN’s clients had discovered internal corrosion near to a pipe support in one of their pressure vessels on their UK based oil terminal.

DOCAN have provided engineering analysis and design support services to a client in the drilling industry.

DOCAN used Solidworks’ array of tools to efficiently produce the 3D geometry models with the level of detail requested by the client.

One of DOCAN’s earlier consultancy projects was to provide design and analysis services to a client who produces pressure systems equipment.