Phillip Prueter

Phillip E. Prueter, P.E. is the Senior Vice President of Consulting at The Equity Engineering Group, Inc. in Shaker Heights, Ohio, where his responsibilities include leading Consulting Services with a focus on providing specialized engineering solutions to fertilizer, oil and gas, and chemical producers worldwide. He has supported the fertilizer industry by identifying and qualifying in-service pressure equipment degradation and by mitigating future damage through innovative and technically based engineering recommendations. He specializes in fitness-for-service, design by analysis, explicit dynamics, thermal-mechanical fatigue analysis, elevated temperature creep, seismic and natural frequency analysis, fracture mechanics, root-cause failure analysis, damage mechanism reviews, and high temperature hydrogen attack. He holds a BS and MS in mechanical engineering and is a Registered Professional Engineer in nine states.

Additionally, he has served on ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Committees and is active in industry design and post-construction standards development through the American Petroleum Institute. He is a regular contributor to Inspectioneering Journal where he authors the recurring column Damage Control and has written several technical eBooks on process industry damage mechanisms and mechanical integrity. Furthermore, he has generated numerous technical articles for World Fertilizer Magazine and has authored or co-authored more than 50 technical publications.