Gas Fire and Explosion Forensic Investigations

Forensic engineering services to determine the root cause of gas fires and explosions.

Intertek provides forensic investigation and analyses of gas fires and explosions on a wide variety of industries and equipment, including boilers and power machinery, process plants, petrochemical refineries, oil and gas production, and commercial and residential buildings and equipment.  

Intertek’s technical capabilities include laboratory facilities to perform small scale combustion tests on potential fuels and a metallurgical laboratory to perform tests on damaged equipment. Certified Fire and Explosion Investigators are available to visit and investigate the scene of an accident. Forensic analytical techniques include computational modeling software to determine both transient and steady state flow fields and temperatures and chemical equilibrium codes to determine the chemical species in the combustion process. Computational algorithms are also available to determine gas migration both through gases, such as air, and solids, such as soil.

Supporting any gas fire and explosion investigation is expertise in mechanical, metallurgical, civil, structural, chemical, electrical, material science, corrosion, and welding engineering, as required.

Forensic investigation services for gas fires and explosions include on-site examination and documentation, evidence control and storage, field-testing, laboratory testing, finite element and other computer-aided modeling and analysis techniques, forensic economic analysis, animation and court exhibit design and production, and expert witness testimony.

Intertek draws on expertise from in-house experts in the Power Generation, Petrochemical, Nuclear and Construction, Aviation and Transportation industries, as well as our own external network of consultants.
 

Contact us to see how Intertek can help your organization with Gas Fire and Explosion Forensic Investigations.