With over 30 years of experience in power and industrial-steam generation services, Tetra Engineering has developed a broad range of services to assist you in O&M activities that maximise performance and reliability.
By design, ASME pressure parts (piping and boilers) are intended to be inspected at regular intervals. While many damage mechanisms can be detected visually, others are best discovered with various NDE methods, in particular:
NDE contractors are expensive and usually don’t know your plant or process well enough to know which components are most at-risk for degradation and wear. If they inspect in the wrong places (i.e. where the rate of wear/damage is not highest), they’ll end up giving a false sense of security.
Optimised NDE means carefully selecting the locations that are most susceptible to damage, according to your components’ design and the way they are operated. Tetra Engineering has the requisite multi-disciplinary experience and tools (thermal simulation, life assessment, structural calculations….) in-house to help you get the most out of your NDE campaigns, by providing pre-outage planning, on-site supervision and post-inspection review.