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Can Your Natural Gas Pipelines Handle Hydrogen Blends?
How can Exponent's multidisciplinary teams help you build more resilient utilities?
Exponent helps you manage your utility's asset lifecycle with our unique, multidisciplinary approach. We leverage thermal, data, environmental, health, and materials scientists as well as structural, civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers to help you understand vulnerabilities and risk in your facilities and assets and help you mitigate them. We offer support with regulatory agencies, including the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), public utilities commissions, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
Capabilities
Our Capabilities Are Unparalleled
With expertise in over 90 disciplines and hundreds of capabilities, tools, and methodologies — we get to the root of even the most complex challenges and give you the objective answers you need.
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Chemical Engineering
Extensive production and safety assessments for facilities combining hazardous and reactive materials, novel technologies, and interconnected equipment.
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Thermal Sciences Expertise for Energy Systems
Energy systems design, safety, and compliance consulting across a range of industries, including oil and gas, renewable and utility power generation.
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Fire Protection Engineering
Extensive fire suppression, detection, and alarm system testing to support achieving code and regulatory requirements.
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Fire & Flammability Testing
Thorough fire and flammability testing for sprinklers, smoke, and heat detectors, vehicle fire testing, and more.
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Computational Modeling; Thermal Sciences
A less expensive and faster alternative to thermal or flow experiments.
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Consumer Product Safety Assessments: Thermal Sciences
Helping clients understand and adopt fire and chemical safety standards for consumer protection.
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Aeronautical Engineering
Engineering consultation for commercial aviation, aerospace technologies, and drones.
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Fire & Explosion Investigations
In-depth field examinations and high-tech modeling and testing to determine the origin and cause of fires, gas explosions, dust explosions, and other explosions...
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Thermal Fluid & Combustion Systems
Support for HVAC, boilers, commercial refrigeration systems, and more.
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Thermal Sciences Expertise for Disputes
Evidence-based scientific insights and expert witness support for industrial fires and explosions, oil and chemical spills, and equipment failures.