Defective steam generation equipment may impose significant losses on plant owners which can justify recovery action. Often the defects causing these losses could have been avoided if the boiler design had conformed with best practice guidelines. Conversely, there are circumstances where poor steam plant availability or defective boiler performance that is caused by maintenance and/or difficult operational issues is incorrectly attributed to boiler design.

Design Boiler engineers are experienced in boiler forensic analysis and expert witness delivery. These services are available to both boiler owners and manufacturers.

Relevant case studies and other capabilities of Design Boiler that relate to these services can be found at these locations on this website:

• Boiler Explosion : Forensic capabilities here. A relevant case study can be found here. 
• Boiler Performance: Forensic capabilities here.  A relevant case study can be found here. 
• Boiler & Superheater Tube Failures: Forensic capabilities here.  A relevant case study on furnace/boiler wall tube failures can be found here. A relevant case study on superheater tube failures can be found here.
• Catastrophic Metal fires: Forensic capabilities here. A relevant case study relating to an economizer metal fire on a marine boiler can be found here.  A relevant case study relating to an airheater metal fire on a biomass/wood waste fired  boiler can be found here.