Ferromagnetic tubes in Heat Exchangers, Boilers, Air Fin Coolers are most common in the Petrochemical Industry. Carbon Steel, an inexpensive material has good mechanical properties and heat transfer capabilities. However, it is often employed in conditions where corrosion if it sets in, acts very fast. Over the years with shrinking maintenance budgets and longer intervals between plant shutdown...

Nuclear reactor pressure vessels are often required regular inspection and maintenance in order to ensure the safety of the reactors. Failing to carry out proper maintenance could cause severe casualty. The usual way of carrying out inspection in these hazardous environments is using long reach fixed base manipulators. However, these manipulators suffer from low payload capacity and relatively ...

This paper presents the development of inspection strategies dedicated to the quality insurance of the wind turbine blade manufacturing process and in particular the inspection of the adhesive bondlines. Ultrasonic testing is recognized as a technique that can provide valuable information about the structure. Porosity, dry area and delamination can be detected and characterized in laminates. La...

In china, atmospheric storage tanks are not included in the management of special equipment, and therefore they are not required to be inspected compulsorily. There is larger difference between China and developed countries on atmospheric storage tank inspection technique than the other techniques on the inspection of pressure vessels. It is widely believed that the strength worsening and perfo...

In many industrial process control situations the need to identify and classify defects is key to enabling process improvements. Inspection is used for this task. The process of constructing a classification scheme to correctly identify defects in a product is a difficult process. Many people assume that a description of what is to be identified exists. That is not necessarily true. Three types...

Since the equipment transmission parts of combination electric appliance in transformer substation are located in the shell, when an internal fault appears, the traditional charged test method only can preliminarily determine the defective position and types, but cannot directly shows the internal defects of the equipment. The Fuxin Company actively introduced X-ray CR imaging test technology a...

Instruments based on airborne/structure borne ultrasound technology offer many opportunities for reducing energy waste and improving asset availability in plants. They expand the concept of ”Condition Monitoring” to include much more than basic mechanical fault inspections. Since these instruments detect friction, ionization and turbulence, their inspection capabilities range from trending bear...