Dr. Binder Singh BEng, MS, PhD, CEng, PE, FIMechE, FIMarEST
Principal and CEO – PragmaticaGGS LLc Corrosion Consulting, Houston, Texas, USA
Dr. Singh is a highly experienced and accomplished corrosion and materials performance technical authority with over 35 years of direct global experience within the energy, marine, offshore, subsea, oil & gas sectors - with hands on expertise predominantly centered around the Americas, the Gulf of Mexico, UK/Europe, South Asia, and the North Sea. He has fostered close ties to academia, and industry relevant subject matter experts (SME’s); and has invoked and developed many pragmatic life cycle solution templates with nuances and subtleties applicable across all geographic regions.
Binder has accumulated vast experience with corrosion and mechanical integrity management, corrosion audits (design per functional field life, life cycle, safe life or life extension), via integrated inspections with commensurateintervals and monitoring for new, established, and badly ageing assets. Typically including failure investigations, fault finding troubleshooting, design and integrity re-appraisals, materials selection, adaptive corrosion testing, corrosion predictions, pragmatic corrosion solutions, qualification of mitigation techniques, complex issue expert witnessing, risk based analyses, and corrosion safety cases - with special capability of linking critical elements of health, safety, environment, quality (HSEQ) to corrosion and integrity engineering.
Throughout his career he has authored, co-authored, rendered, and approved a vast multitude of reports, studies, designs, certifications, verifications, opinions, and recommendations (career estimate over 500). And has frequently led and managed multi-disciplined teams often across cultures. Dr. Singh is a strong advocate of safety, and minimizing impact to the environment through proper corrosion interpretation, control and management – lessening risks of failure to contamination, fires, spills, and other asset, plant or pipeline damages that may be initiated and propagated by localized corrosion phenomena. The benefits of such an approach are; enhanced revenues, more jobs, better student education, better working professional training, greater sustainability, cleaner air and waters, and improved societal expectations.
He has detailed experience with most commonly understood localized corrosion, degradation and damage mechanisms including loss of material properties, pitting, crevice, mixed materials, galvanic corrosion, erosion, impingement, cavitation, environmental cracking, metal embrittlement, stress corrosion cracking (SCC), sulfide stress cracking (SSC), corrosion fatigue, microbially influenced corrosion (MIC), flow assisted corrosion (FAC), cathodic protection (CP), coatings performance, and preferential welding corrosion, etc. And maintains a close watch and appreciation of evolving ‘newer’ corrosion mechanisms such as corrosion under insulation (CUI), corrosion under pipe supports (CUPS), and corrosion under deposits (CUD, aka UDC). He has developed risk-oriented modeling and decision loops for internal pipe or vessel corrosion under steady states, and working criteria for the non-steady states encountered – now termed corrosion under excursions (CUE), and interface corrosion often witnessed at fluid flow change regimes, crevicing geometries and specification breaks.
Binder has developed the ability to effectively bridge links between the scientific and engineering methods, synergize key areas and technicalities per corrosion, mechanical engineering, flow assurance, heat transfer, metallurgy, and stress analyses - especially via adapted on-site sensors and measurements for supplementing laboratory data, and instrumented field bypass spools. His strong views and interpretations on safety cases were embedded in his early career through experiences in the nuclear industry and naval projects, as well as being industry cognizant and present during the difficult times of the Flixborough, Piper Alpha, Macondo, and various Pipeline incidents. And he is keen to transfer the knowledge he has accrued for application to new and ageing infrastructure, pipelines, pressure plant, structures etc for both offshore and onshore applications.
The cornerstone logic is that by clearly delineating problem areas one will always better evoke solutions arrived with client consensus –promoting better and more cost effective use of existing methods and techniques. He has served as SME on a multitude of projects, participated on many industry panels (public and private), debated many critical issues, engaged with world-class experts, and participated in critical failure investigations where he has officiated as an expert witness. He has published and peer reviewed works extensively, often redirecting objectives and designs, invoking pilot plant testing (aka ‘bypass’ or ‘parallel’ testing) thus proving feasibility of plans, and in that regard maintains close relationships with multiple engineering and scientific societies.
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