Inspection Management – Products and services
RWE Power International offer a wide range of specialist Non Destructive Examination (NDE) products and services that cover conventional NDE inspections, advanced NDE technologies, outage management and consultancy. Our world-class services cover all your NDE inspection requirements.
Our aim is to achieve the desired NDE outcome within your specified timescales and budgets and to the required standard. By performing our innovative inspections, we can help you reduce your plant downtime, improve process safety and defect detection, maintain accuracy of defect sizing and enable the inspection of components with complex geometrics.
Development of NDE applications is an essential part of our services; many of our inspection methods and techniques are as a result of internal NDE development, utilising the latest NDE technology.
Our inspections and technological developments are carried out by highly competent NDE engineers who benefit from many years experience; our personnel undergo standard Personal Certification in NDT (PCN) training, together with method specific training and certification, such as Time of Flight Diffraction (TOFD) and phased array.
RWE Power International can provide a number of innovative NDE solutions for the challenges you face operating turbine related rotating plant, including the inspection of blade roots and fixings, cooling fan rivets, gas turbine blade coatings, generator rotor end rings, rotor bores and discs, GT hot gas path and turbine and generator rotors.
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RWE Power International’s NDE services can reduce the likelihood of plant failure by detecting defects in areas of plant that store or transport superheated steam before plant damage and operational failure can arise. These services include boiler corrosion mapping, EMAT and oxide thickness measurement and steam pipe work inspections.
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By using a combination of ultrasonic imaging techniques, RWE Power International can offer you the volumetric inspection of newly made welds on components pre-service as well as computerised ultrasonic imaging technology for in-service inspections which are revolutionary both in terms of the versatility of inspections and the quality of reporting.
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We provide inspection services for non-rotating plant, such as steam chests which experience considerable cyclic thermal stresses during service. Our ultrasonic inspections of fixed plant offer you significant cost/ time savings from the fast high integrity scanning.
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Plant databases are part of the essential tools used to control the NDE activity. RWE’s three dimensional plant asset register (PAR-3d) is a facilities management system designed to address the specific plant history and information retrieval requirements of the power industry.
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Our NDE contract management services and NDE work instructions and techniques ensure that the process of assessments, predictions and judgements on the integrity and longevity of critical plant components are carried out effectively and produce results which are accurate and can be relied upon.
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