- Bart will be speaking at Underwater Intervention 2012 in New Orleans, LA, on Tuesday January 24. He will present on USCG Acceptance of non-ASME PVHOs. Thursday he will present KES' joint effort with other industry parteners to expand the rules for using acrylic polymer in pressure vessel applications. The effort has an initial focus on fatigue design and cyclic life, but the overall goal is to develop design rules similar to ASME BPVC, Section VII, Div. 2 rules and calculations for materials. (01-2012)
- We are happy to announce a new client, Screening Systems International, Inc. SSI is based in Slaughter, LA and are industry leaders in screening systems. KES will assist in mechanical design, lifting/hoisting/handling issues, and other engineering support to complement SSI's industry-recognized expertise. (12-2011)
- KES is working with Reimers Systems, Inc. to help qualify the PVHO for a Tunnel Boring Machine in Seattle, Washington. This is a new and exciting area for KES. We have already helped our client to get a provisional acceptance from the Washington State Pressure Vessel Board. Tunneling applications of PVHO is a growing field and Bart is already in the ASME PVHO working group to help develop a uniform, workable safety standard for this industry. Check out Tiger's visit to the work site on Broadway in Seattle. (12/2011)
- Congratulations to all of the 2011 Mechanical Engineering graduates from LSU. Bart and AJ are two of the industry panelists for LSU's Senior Project, the capstone course for ABET accredited engineering programs. Industry panelists are volunteers who spend several days each semester to help not only evaluate the student projects, but give the potential graduates their first taste of what is expected of them as engineers. Click here for more about this from LSU's School of Engineering. (05-2011)
- KES welcomes our newest engineer, Catharine Dolese. She is a 1980 LSU graduate in Chemical Engineering. Her previous work in Dow Chemical and James River Paper Mill as a chemical engineer, product manager, and project manager provides us further depth of knowledge and expertise. Catharine will also be our business manager, leveraging her years of product management and project management to seamlessly integrate our operations with our clients' needs. (03-2011)
- KES is now an approved vendor with the Manufacturing Extension Partnership of Louisiana (MEPOL). This program is sponsored by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) that helps new businesses go from a concept to production. MEPOL provides business advice and grants for patents, engineering, and prototyping. KES is dedicated to supporting our local economy and harnessing the natural innovation that is the hallmark of South Louisiana industry. We are providing reduced rates to MEPOL clients to help our region grow. (02-2011)
- KES welcomes are two new engineers: Mark Gabriel, a 2010 LSU graduate in Biomedical Engineering, and Bota Tastanova, who earned her bachelor's and master's in Petroleum Engineering in Kazakhstan and joins us after working in Houston, Texas. These new additions complement our existing depth in mechanical engineering and allows us to provide a greater range of technical expertise. (01-2011)
- KES has partnered with URS and Stanley Consultants in support of the East Baton Rouge Sewer Expansion project. KES will be providing Computational Fluid Dynamics modeling of key pump stations, per requirements by CH2MHill. While we have been providing simulations and advanced engineering to industry around the world, this is our first civil works project. Our proven track record in partnering with other engineering firms, along with our expertise in fluid dynamics, stress analysis, 3D modeling, and traditional engineering provides international consulting firms such as URS and Stanley Consultants a cost effective way to bring the right engineering in for a project. (10-2011)
- Krista is now part of the ASME Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy Committee, based on her years of design, troubleshooting and fit-for-service work in pressure vessels as a designer. She has already completed a comprehesive review of the "Viewports" section of PVHO1 and has been selected as a primary member of the Submersible subcommittee. She is the company's alternate member on the other subcommittees. The ASME PVHO Codes and Standards Committee is the organization responsible for establishing the US standards for design, fabrication and safety of items including non-military submarines, diving systems such as diving bells and decompression chambers, and hyperbaric chambers. This committee includes representatives from the US Navy, US Coast Guard, commercial diving companies, medical equipment companies, submarine operators, fabricators and engineering consultants. Bart is a member of the Main PVHO Committee and is the primary member in the Diving, Medical Systems, General Requirements, Design, and Viewports subcommittees and is part of the task force developing the proposed Performance Based Standard for PVHO applications. (10-2010)
Bart Kemper, P.E. stands in front of the CSS Pioneer, forerunner to the CSS
Hunley as part of the ASME Pressure Vessel for Human Occupancy Committee's trip to the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in Charleston, SC. The ASME PVHO Committee toured the tank in which the Hunley is being preserved and studied. The ASME PVHO Code is the engineering design code governing submarines, diving bells, decompression chambers, and hyperbaric chambers. Bart is one of the newest members of the ASME PVHO Committee.
In these pictures, Bart is sitting inside a model of the CCS Hunley made for the 1999 movie, "The Hunley." This model is slightly larger than the actual submarine in order to better accomadate the actors. The Hunley was powered by seven soldiers cranking the offset shaft while the captain steered the ship and controlled its dives. Wiith Bart is "Tiger", given by his sons to "keep him safe" during his deployment to Iraq as an engineer officer and now the company mascot for Kemper Engineering. |
