Lucas A. Baldesberger

Mr. Baldesberger joined E2G | The Equity Engineering Group, Inc. in 2020 as an Engineer for the Materials & Corrosion Team after spending two years interning with E2G throughout college. While at E2G, Mr. Baldesberger has gained thorough experience consulting with clients in the refining and petrochemical industries, as well as the energy sector as a whole. Mr. Baldesberger has been involved in a multitude of client projects including root-cause failure analyses, damage mechanism reviews, laboratory corrosion testing, materials selection evaluations, hot tap welding guidance, creep remaining life calculations, HTHA susceptibility assessments, hydrogen bake-out scenarios, and on-site engineering support assignments. In conjunction with client projects, Mr. Baldesberger has also been involved with Joint Industry Projects (JIPs) including creep modeling using the Omega method and examining the effects of hydrogen on crack growth rates.

Prior to joining E2G full-time, Mr. Baldesberger worked as a Corrosion & Fouling Intern for the CITGO Petroleum Corporation at the Corpus Christi refinery. During this time, he managed HTHA reviews of multiple unit areas of the refinery, analyzed inspection reports from the current TA, ensured the evergreening of unit CCDs, conducted an exchanger bundle failure analysis, and worked in conjunction with process engineers to investigate desalter performance and the effects on corrosion mechanisms in the crude distillation unit.

Mr. Baldesberger also worked as a Corrosion Lab Intern at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he focused on high-temperature corrosion. Experiments included thermogravimetric mass loss, cyclic testing of FeCrAl alloys, and loss of cooling accident (LOCA) burst testing. He also characterized oxide thickness and grain structure utilizing SEM and Keyence 3D imaging.