Environmental Services
Salmon & Associates, Inc. offers a broad range of environmental services, from consulting and permit preparation to interdisciplinary support for detailed design.  Specific expertise extends to all major environmental areas (air, water, solid, and hazardous waste).  Key personnel have extensive experience and contact with regulatory officials, both at the State and Federal level.

Salmon & Associates' major strength is based on its ability to offer full service design engineering capability in support of environmental activities.  While most environmental projects are geotechnical and/or civil oriented, many require mechanical, structural, piping, and electrical and instrumentation design support for site facilities, leachate recovery systems, water treating units, recycling facilities, power distribution, etc.  Salmon and Associates offers this total package "in house" resulting in efficient coordination of design activities and quality design packages.  This umbrella of services also permits Salmon & Associates to provide comprehensive CADD-generated P&ID updates required under SARA Right-to-Know requirements.

Major Industrial Electrical Power Engineering and Design
Salmon & Associates has successfully provided Engineering/Design for major industrial power substations, up to and including 34.5 KV primary distribution systems and equipment.  Recent engineering experience includes the specification and installation design for the following.
    ·  Switchgear, through 34.5 KV
    ·  Transformers, through 18 MVA, 34.5 KV Primary voltages
    ·  Variable Frequency Drives, through 800 HP
    ·  Uninteruptable Power Systems (UPS)
Salmon & Associates, Inc. also has experience with performing complete electrical power studies, including Load Flow and Demand Analysis, Short Circuit Analysis, and Relay Coordination Studies.  Electrical studies are performed using computer based modeling software, which allows a high degree of efficiency in performing these studies, and also facilitates maintaining these studies or additions are made to the electrical system.

Process Plant Control Systems Upgrades
Salmon & Associates, Inc. personnel have extensive experience in process plant control systems involving:
A.  Design of various distributed control systems (DCS)
      using TDC3000 Equipment (Data Highway and Process
      Manager), Fisher Provox Equipment, Foxboro I.A.
      and Spec 300 Equipment, Baily Network 90 Equipment,
      and Moore Products DCS Equipment.
B.  Design of various programmable logic controller systems,
      including interfacing with DCS systems using Modicon,
      Allen-Bradley, Texas Instrument, Triconics and Reliance
      Automate Equipment.
C.  Design of DCS communication links using fiber optics.
      Several project scopes including upgrading an existing plant
      from conventional single loop control to distributed
      control with minimal shutdown time.

Process Safety Management Services and Capabilities
A.  Mechanical Integrity
    ·  QA/QC Documentation for New Construction and Retrofits
    ·  Identification and documentation of Equipment and Instruments Covered under PSM
    ·  Establishment of Inspection Frequencies, Procedures and Files
    ·  Review of Equipment Files for Manufacturer's Data, Repair and Inspection History
B.  Engineering
    ·  P&ID and PFD Updates and As-Builts
    ·  Heat and Material Balances
    ·  E&I Drawing Updates
    ·  Safety/Relief Valve Basis and Sizing
    ·  Tank and Pressure Vessel Calculations
    ·  Process Control Review and Innovation
    ·  Operating Procedures
    ·  Rotating Equipment Survey and Documentation
C.  Training
   ·   Development of Maintenance Training Program
   ·   Maintenance personnel Skills and Knowledge Assessments
   ·   Development of Maintenance Training program Requirements
   ·   Documentation of Skills and Training
   ·   Review and Development of Maintenance Work Procedures
   ·   Writing of Training Manuals
   ·   Training of Personnel
D.  Inspection
    ·  Piping Survey, NDT and Field Verification of P&ID's
    ·  Above Ground Storage Inspections by API 653; Tank Crawler, MFE and Helium Leak Testing
    ·  Positive Material Identification up to 800°F
   ·  Pressure Vessel Inspections, NDT and Documentation Production
    ·  NDT, including Thermal, UT, Dye, Magnetic Particle, Eddy Current,         Ultrasonic Flaw Sizing,
       Leak Detection, Magnetic Flux Exclusion, and Remote Video
    ·   Documentation Production for all of the above.

Industrial Architectural Services

A.  Warehouses - New / Existing
    ·  Up to 500,00 square feet
    ·  Design / Code Studies / Types of Construction / Drawing Package
B.  MCC / Electrical Substations
    ·  Maintenance Information - such as roof replacement, waterproof coatings for the exteriors
    ·  Design and Pressurization
    ·  Ergonomics to help in the work area
C.  Analyzers Shelters
   ·  Skid Mounted / All Metal / Constructed Offsite / Shipped to Plant
D.  Site Trailers for Construction / Offices
   ·   Provide drawings for bids/site adapt
   ·   Submit to Louisiana State Fire Marshall
E.  Control Houses
    ·  Update / Code Studies
    ·  Remodel / Design / Update Kitchens, etc.
    ·  Save Haven / Pressurization Studies / Designs
    ·  Noise Controls in the workplace
F.  Office Buildings
    ·  Code Studies / ADAAG Update (Americans with Disabilities)
G.  Fire Safety
    ·  Fire Alarm Systems for Control Houses, Office Buildings,
        MCC and Substations
    ·  Fire Suppression System / Replacements
       using FM200 (replaces Halon)

Material Handling

Salmon & Associates, INc. has a broad range of experience in materials and bulk handling systems.  Our experience includes: custom conveyor designs for materials such as alumina, urea, herbicide powders, plastics, catalysts, pellets, lime, carbon black, grain, coal and rock;  dust collection systems; dense phase conveying; loading and unloading systems for various solids and liquids; custom designed diverter valves; alloy chute and duct work designs; rotary and vibrating feeders; bucket elevators; automated crane systems; and seatainer loading facilities.

Marine Docks

The Salmon & Associates staff includes leading marine design engineers with over thirty years of dock design experience.  We have extensive experience with dock facilities located along the lower Mississippi River where water surface elevations vary seasonally as much as forty feet often bringing unique challenges to the engineering design.  Our experience includes:  U.S. Corp of Engineers permit preparation and management; new dock designs for ships and barges; dock loading and unloading facilities for materials such as oil, gasoline, acids, lime, carbon black, mineral rock, grain, fertilizers, and various other chemicals; ship and barge dock repairs, revamps and additions; marine vapor recovery designs; dock feasibility studies and cost estimates; and dock construction inspection.

Surveying Services

We maintain two full time survey crews to perform both construction and property surveys.

HAZOP P&ID Mapping and CADD Drawing

Our firm has extensive experience in preparing HAZOP quality P&ID's of existing plants, including both field mapping and CADD preparation of drawings.

Energy Audits/Studies

Our firm has conducted energy audits for a variety of clients with specific emphasis on ways to reduce these costs on a site-wide basis.  Through use of a variety of computer programs we can quickly develop a site or area use profile and assess what the true impact of process changes can be on the facility.  Our approach will allow the client to have a long-range plan to monitor results once the study is completed.

Fertilizers

Salmon & Associates, Inc. has successfully executed several major retrofit projects for M.W. Kellogg, Foster Wheeler and C.F. Braun Ammonia plants.   Our firm has retrofitted several projects for CF Industries.  Among these projects are included:  a) Connective Section Replacements; b) Ammonia Converter Renovation; c) New Mole Sieves; d) installation of air compressor inlet cooling coils; e) two Urea Plant Ammonia Emissions Reduction Hydrogen Conversion Systems; f) various environmental and UAN storage facilities for CF Industries Canadian Fertilizer Ltd.   In 1993, we completed a 140,000 man-hour grassroots engineering and detail design for a UAN Plant using UHDE technology and all of the offsites work for new Nitric Acid, Urea and UAN Plants.

Salmon & Associates has also executed similar multi-discipline retrofit projects for IMC/Agrico, Triad and Arcadian Fertilizers.

Boilers/Fired Heaters/Flares

Salmon & Associates, Inc. offers process/combustion engineering and detail engineering services for grassroots and retrofit projects involving boilers, fired heaters and flares.  Our firm utilizes Mr. Charles Muhlenforth, P.E. to perform combustion engineering for these projects.

Chemical and Metallurgical Plants

Salmon & Associates has successfully executed many multi-discipline projects for Exxon, NPC Services, Inc., BASF, Union Carbide, Amerchol and others.  These projects range from less than 1,000 man-hours to 130,000 man-hours.   In 1993, we completed two projects for the Ralph M. Parsons Company (for Exxon) in excess of 70,000 man-hours total and one environmental project for NPC Services, Inc. for 20,000 man-hours.  In 1995, we completed the Alliance Project for Exxon Chemical Company, which totaled 130,000 man-hours.

Refineries

Salmon & Associates has successfully executed many multi-discipline projects for Exxon, Marathon and Good Hope.  These projects range from less than 1,000 man-hours to 10,000 man-hours.  In 1993, Salmon & Associates completed a 42,000 man-hours Marine Vapor Recovery Project for Marathon Oil Company.   In 1980, Salmon & Associates completed a grassroots project for Good Hope in excess of 100,000 man-hours.