PRT has the experience and time-tested technical experts to provide your company with “value added” information and lasting solutions to your problems through condition assessment.
Level I inspection
A plan is prepared after a thorough review of the plant’s operations (both current and historical). Level I Condition Assessment involves detailed visual inspection techniques, simple NDE methods (MT, PT, UTT) and measurement tools to determine if more detailed analysis is required. The components generally inspected are:
- Boiler structure and supports
- Burners
- Critical planning
- Down-comers
- Flues and ducts
- Headers
- Water-walls
- Steam drums
Level II condition assessment
Based on the findings observed during a Level I inspection, more advanced NDE techniques and sampling are utilized, which include:
- Advanced UT (PAUT)
- Hardness / PMI
- High temperature strain gages
- Metallurgical and Oxide analysis of tube samples
- Remote visual inspection
- Surface replications
- UT–oxide thickness
- WFMT