KnightHawk News
August 2011 – KnightHawk completes design of Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage Tanks for the Solana Solar Power Plant Project under construction in Gila Bend, Arizona. The project, is the world’s largest parabolic trough concentrating solar plant and the first large-scale solar plant in the United States. The plant is scheduled to be in full production in 2013.
May 2011 –
KnightHawk Engineering Announces Agent Agreements executed for the 3 following countries.
For the country of Qatar our agent is “TRAGS Trading & Agency Services”,
Their contact information is as follows:
Address: Abdul Aziz Bin Ahmed Street, Jaidah Tower,
PO Box 1884, Doha, Qatar.
T: +974 – 44432212, 4432213, 44428391, or 44428238.
E:johnissa@tragsqatar.com
For the country of Kuwait our agent is “Petrosas Oil & Gas Services Co. Sas Al-Dar General trading & Contracting Co”.
Their contact information is as follows:
Address: Kuwait City, Sharq, Ahmed Al-jaber St., CBK Building, 1st Floor
PO Box 4045, Safat 13041
T: +965 2245 96 10/ 22472010/40/80/90
F: +965 2245 96 07
E: Msabri@petrosas.com
W: www.Petrosas.com
Skype ID: Msabri-Petrosas
For the country of Brazil our agent is “GT2 Energia”.
Their contact information is as follows:
Address: Av das Americas 500, Bloco 15/201 Barra da Tijuca,
CEP 2264-100 Rio de Janeiro-RJ
T: +55 (21) 3203 0565
F: +55 (21) 3203 0564
E: sandro@gt2.com.br
W: www.gt2.com.br or www.gt2energia.com.br
Skype ID: sandrobarrosferreira
April 2011 – KnightHawk attended, the 2011 AIChE Spring Meeting in Chicago March 13 through the 17. KHE highlighted its new EZ De-Coke Technology at the conference and was asked to make an impromptu presentation on the new technology. The presentation was well attended and a lot of interest in the new technology was demonstrated by the volume of individuals who visited our booth on the exhibit floor. To find out more about our new EX De-Coke Technology, view our presentation at this link, EZ-Decoke.
March 2011 – KnightHawk completes successful redesign and rebuild of burner system for oxidation of waste gasses from petrochemical plant. Successful startup of the newly design system was in February, 2011. Reduced emissions and cooler metal temperatures combined with hotter combustion temperatures improves plant reliability, profitability and reduces EPA monitored emissions.
February 2011 – KnightHawk Engineering was invited to Present a paper at the first Middle East Turbomachinery Symposium in Doha, Qatar. On February 16, 2011 Cliff Knight Presented a Case Study on a Centrifugal Compressor Failure Analysis.
May 2010 – KHE receives contract to perform root cause analysis of critical compressor failure.
April 2010 – Middle East plant plant goes on line with assistance from KHE to solve problems with failures to their critical heat exchangers.
February 2010 – KHE receives contract to design Molten Salt Tank as a part of the Green Power technology movement.
January 2010 – KHE promotes Carlos R Corleto, Ph.D. to the position of Materials Lab and Field Services Director. He replaces Kevin Sicking who is moved back to the corporate offices to resume his duties as Sr. Vice President.
October 2009 – KHE sends team to Middle East to support Client in plant startup.
August 2009 – KHE receives contract to investigate plant explosion in Pasadena.
August 2009 – KHE receives contract to perform root cause analysis on critical heat exchangers. Middle East ethylene plant had failures on its transfer line exchangers during commissioning and cannot start the plant until the reasons for the failures are identified and solutions are developed and implemented.
June 2009 – KHE is pleased to announce the acquisition of the assets of Clear Lake Industries, Filtration Division. KHE formed a new subsidiary, KnightHawk Industries, DBA “Clearlake Filtration” and has moved it next door to the KnightHawk Materials Lab in League City, TX.
April 2009 – KHE receives Phase 2 of the Process Technology R&D project.
Feb 2009 – KnightHawk receives contract to perform a Metallurgical examination of Failed Compressor parts.
Dec 2008 - KnightHawk receives a major turbomachinery job involving the failure of a turboexpander.
October 2008 – KHE receives order for a Process Technology R&D project involving extensive numerical modeling.
September 2008 – KHE survives Ike. KHE offices and almost all employees’ homes received significant to severe damage during Hurricane Ike. In spite of the damage and prolonged power outages experienced, the KHE offices were back up and operating on the following Monday. Client’s critical projects were kept on track with minimal delays.
May 2008 – KnightHawk is contracted to work on a major OSHA related event, related to a Heat Exchanger Failure.
April 2008 – Now Open - KnightHawk Materials Lab! KnightHawk Engineering now has a state of the art Materials and Metrology Lab in League City, Texas. Our services now include materials analysis, testing and reverse engineering. KnightHawk is now your one stop shop for all your problematic engineering needs.
February 2008 – KHE receives offshore job on Thunder Horse requiring extensive Finite Element modeling of riser equipment.
