Piekarz, Cristina

Cristina is a chemical engineer at HDR with 5 years of experience supporting a variety of industrial and municipal clients in water and wastewater. She has a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan and her work experience includes water balances, chemistry modeling tools, technology evaluations, equipment specifications, system design, condition assessments, and process optimization plans. She started her career supporting a variety of power plants in development and operation with thermal cycle balances, water balances, feasibility studies, and lifecycle cost analyses. She really enjoys learning about new and innovative approaches to help clients achieve water treatment goals.

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Wastewater Plant Condition Assessment: Methods and Results

Abstract

As Water Reuse and Recovery Facilities (WRRFs) encounter critical decisions on how best to deal with aging infrastructure and an uncertainty on future regulations, a vision on how to integrate condition assessment and technology evaluation can provide invaluable data for informing such wide ranging business decisions. This paper details the initial planning and evaluation phase (how a condition assessment should be performed), the inspection phase (how equipment was inspected), and the engineering analysis phase (evaluating the impact of current conditions) during condition assessment. A case study is provided as a template for others to use for evaluating the remaining useful life of critical equipment and highlight ways in which a condition assessment can improve reliability, extend equipment useful life, and reduce operating costs.

SpeakerPiekarz, Cristina

Presentation time

14:50:00

15:10:00

Session time

13:30:00

15:10:00

SessionVertical Asset Management: Big to Small

Session number411

TopicAsset Management, Facility Operations and Maintenance, Municipal Wastewater Treatment Design, Utility Management and Leadership

Author(s)

C. PiekarzN. GoelM. CunninghamJ. PetitD. GemmellD.C. SampsonM. Falk