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Don’t Get Burned With Your Gas Grill!
September 29, 2020 2:26 pm Leave a Comment
If there is one thing Americans can agree upon, it is the enjoyment that comes from an outdoor barbeque. Whether a summertime cookout or a fall BBQ to watch a football game, we all love the fun and fellowship that comes from sharing a meal that was prepared outdoors on a grill or smoker. In fact, 64% of Americans own a grill or smoker. The great majority of these are LP fueled gas grills with comparatively few natural gas fired grills. These products can be enjoyed safely when designed, installed, and used in a proper manner. However, given the grill’s use of flammable fuel gas and high temperatures, the potential exists for things to go wrong and result in burn injuries or uncontained fires that spread to the surroundings. (more…)
Congratulations to Jennifer Morningstar on receiving Professional Engineer’s License
July 25, 2017 10:29 am Leave a Comment
Warren is thrilled to announce that Jennifer Morningstar passed the Principles and Practice of Chemical Engineering exam and received her South Carolina Professional Engineer’s License on July 17, 2017. She has been with Warren since September 2011, in a non-engineering capacity but has rejoined the ranks of engineers as a consultant. (more…)
Warren Welcomes New Chemical Engineer
June 1, 2017 12:14 pm Leave a Comment
Warren is pleased to announce that Chemical Engineer, Jennifer Morningstar, E.I.T., has joined our team of engineering professionals as a Consulting Engineer. (more…)
Evaluating the Potential for “Victim” Holes Not Caused By Lightning in CSST
July 14, 2015 9:53 am Leave a Comment
One area that we have found particularly interesting are fires involving Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing (CSST). CSST is a material used to plumb fuel gas inside structures. It is used as an alternative to traditional black steel pipe or copper tubing. The stainless steel tube of CSST, in certain circumstances, will perforate when subjected to electrical arcing, including that due to local lightning strikes. The escaping fuel gas from these perforations has obvious implications as to causing fires. (more…)
CSST Testing, Can Energized Branch Circuits Cause Perforation?
September 22, 2014 10:37 am Leave a Comment
We get to work with some really cool guys and from time to time, we do some really cool things; “things that make you go hmmm,” (as Arsenio Hall used to say). (more…)
Code Violations Are Root of Fatal Explosion
September 16, 2013 8:32 am Leave a Comment
The design and installation of gas piping systems in homes and commercial buildings is guided by a set of regulations called NFPA 54 — the National Fuel Gas Code. The code, which establishes minimum safety requirements, is also used by forensic engineers to evaluate an explosion to determine cause and responsibility. (more…)
Explosion Investigations Uncover Answers
August 12, 2013 8:09 am Leave a Comment
The cause of an explosion can result from a chain of events in some cases. In many residential explosions and resulting fires, the facts can point to a number of potential causes. Certified fire and explosion investigators, like Warren engineers, have the experience and training to uncover and evaluate scenarios with high degrees of certainty. In some cases, like one residential explosion we investigated, the chain of events can start days before the loss.
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