Monitoring and inspections of boilers and piping
KEMA provides creep strain monitoring, inspection and testing services for critical high-energy parts like boiler steam drums and piping
Coal, gas, oil and biomass-fired boilers, (non) supplementary-fired heat recovery steam generators (HRSG) in power plants and large furnaces in heavy industries have furnace made from water wall tubing. The combustion environment is a hostile one, dimensions are huge and accessibility is difficult.
Given that inspection intervals have been stretched, downtime limited and lifetime extended, one must apply cutting-edge inspection and monitoring tools in order to keep costs within budget and assure plant reliability and availability.
KEMA provides the following inspection and monitoring tools for boilers and piping
KEMA performs non-destructive in-service creep strain monitoring by speckle image correlation analysis (SPICA)
Save time-consuming and expensive scaffolding and apply KEMA’s on-stream wall thickness monitoring
Fit-for Service provides the answer to the necessity of replacing components which show signs of creep or fatigue or show defects/cracks
Detect in-service defects by automated ultrasonic steam drum inspections from the outside while leaving the drum internals in place
KEMA can assist you in providing engineering solutions for welding and repair problems in power and petrochemical industry
How to weld new and old materials while the materials have different compositions?
The Small Punch Test is a powerful method to provide actual values of mechanical properties of high-energy components
Minimize time and costs and perform fireside wall thickness measurements from the outside
Save yourself time and money for scaffolding and apply quick, simple but reliable boiler inspections
To support non-destructive inspections, KEMA employs a range of endoscopes and a CCTV system