The operating layer
for the plasma era.
In plain English: we build the software and control hardware that keep refineries, power plants, and other energy facilities running safely, and that will run tomorrow’s fusion plants. Software that designs, certifies, and runs complex energy facilities. Hardware that senses and controls them at the edge. A balance-of-plant architecture built to outlive its first heat source — fission first, fusion ready. Headquartered in Layton, Utah. SAM.gov registered.
NEXUS Engineering Suite
Browser-native 3D plant modeling, photo-to-model reconstruction, automated ISA-5.1 P&IDs, and title-block-grade engineering drawings — from site photo to stamped-quality deliverable.
NORMEX Standards AI
OSHA PSM, EPA RMP, API, and ASME compliance answered from the actual standards corpus, plus PSM gap prediction and the process-safety consulting behind it — RAGAGEP-grounded, auditor-ready.
HELIA Balance-of-Plant Platform
The pumps, cooling, power conversion, fuel cycle, and safety controls around the heat source — one supervisory architecture for refineries, power generation, LNG, hydrogen, carbon capture, and tomorrow's fusion plants.
Neuromorphic sensing & early warning
Critical-infrastructure monitoring, edge threat detection, hypersonic tracking, and autonomous edge analytics — microsecond reflexes at milliwatt power.
Neuromorphic compute for plant control
Event-driven, brain-inspired hardware as the reflex layer for balance of plant. An R&D direction, stated honestly as one.
Research & insight.
Common questions.
What does Porritt Inc. do?
Porritt Inc. helps refineries, chemical plants, and other energy facilities run safely and stay compliant. We offer process safety management (PSM) consulting, OSHA 1910.119 and RAGAGEP compliance reviews, and operator and mechanic training. We also build our own software and the control hardware that runs the balance of plant at refineries, power plants, LNG and hydrogen plants, carbon capture units, large ships, and future fusion plants. The company is based in Layton, Utah.
What is balance of plant?
Balance of plant is everything in a power or process plant except the heat source itself: pumps, coolant loops, heat exchangers, turbines and generators, cryogenics, vacuum systems, electrical gear, and the control system that ties them together. It makes up roughly 80% of a plant, and it is where most trips and outages begin.
What is the 4th state, and what is the plasma era?
Plasma is the fourth state of matter after solid, liquid, and gas. It is what fusion reactors run on. The plasma era is our shorthand for the coming generation of fusion-powered plants. Our control architecture is fission first, fusion ready: it runs on today's heat sources and is built to carry over when fusion heat arrives.
What is neuromorphic hardware?
Neuromorphic chips work more like a nervous system than a normal processor. They react to events as they happen instead of polling sensors on a fixed clock, so they respond in microseconds while drawing milliwatts of power. Porritt Inc. uses them for fast safety functions, edge threat detection, and hypersonic early warning.
What software does Porritt Inc. offer?
Three product families: NEXUS for engineering design, NORMEX compliance AI for process safety and regulatory work, and Plant Intelligence for day-to-day operations. Together that is more than twenty applications, all built in-house.
Is Porritt Inc. registered for federal contracting?
Yes. Porritt Inc. is registered in SAM.gov with UEI WQWHVJ1J98S9 and CAGE code 9Z7B9.
How do I contact Porritt Inc.?
Email timothy@porrittinc.com.
What is OSHA PSM?
Process Safety Management (OSHA 29 CFR 1910.119) is the federal standard for preventing catastrophic releases of highly hazardous chemicals at refineries and chemical plants. It requires 14 elements including process safety information, process hazard analysis, mechanical integrity, management of change, and compliance audits. Porritt Inc. provides PSM consulting, audits, and the NORMEX software that answers PSM questions from the standard itself.
What is RAGAGEP?
RAGAGEP stands for Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices — the codes and standards (API, ASME, NFPA, and others) that OSHA expects a facility to follow for equipment design, inspection, and testing under PSM mechanical-integrity requirements. NORMEX Standards AI maps your equipment and procedures to the applicable RAGAGEP.
How does NORMEX work?
NORMEX Standards AI answers natural-language compliance questions by retrieving and citing the actual text of the governing standards and regulations rather than guessing. NORMEX PSM Predict scores a facility's PSM program element by element to find gaps before an auditor does. Both run in the browser on Windows and are built in-house by Porritt Inc.
Why is balance-of-plant 80% of a power plant?
The heat source is a small fraction of a power plant by equipment count, piping, cable, and capital. Heat transport, power conversion, fuel cycle, cryogenics, vacuum, switchyard, and the control system make up most of the engineering, procurement, and operating risk. That 80% is what Porritt Inc. designs, instruments, and controls.
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