Babcock Power Services’ (BPS) Boiler Evaluation Department provides inspection, testing, non-destructive examination (NDE), assessment, and metallurgical services to the worldwide industrial and utility power market. BPS has access to the disciplines of boiler design, instrumentation and controls, environmental, burner design, stress analysis, performance engineering and field service.

Plant owners depend on reliable and accurate assessment of boiler components in both emergency and planned outages. BPS has designed its Team Inspection and Condition Assessment programs to determine the current condition of your boiler, pressure part components and/or its auxiliaries. From the information gathered during inspection and testing processes, the goal is to determine and document the current condition of your boiler and its auxiliaries and to report findings that may predict future needs. Recommendations can then be made to remedy the problems.

Examples of what an inspection and condition assessment can do for you

	Identify problem areas and recommend modifications in unit design or operation that will      reduce maintenance and increase unit availability.
	Provide a record of unit physical condition, necessary to a remaining life assessment and a      benchmark for future outage inspections.
	Provide a record of furnace and convection pass tube thicknesses to be used to track tube wastage rates.

 

Non-Destructive Testing     Ultrasonic thickness testing (UT)      Ultrasonic flaw detection (UTSW)      Wet fluorescent particle testing (WFMT)      Dye Penetrant testing (PT)      Remote field electromagnetic testing (RFET)      Low frequency electromagnetic testing (LFET)      Replication metallography         Hardness testing         Flow accelerated corrosion (FAC) Destructive Testing     Tube sample analysis          Deposit loading analysis          ID/OD scale and deposit chemistry analysis       Failure analysis          Erosion          Corrosion          Fatigue          Stress rupture (creep) Visual Inspection/Analysis     Visual inspection survey       Internal inspection          Fiberoptics          Videoimagescope          Video recording Remaining Life Assessment     Tubes      Headers      Components

Condition Assessment Programs     Component Assessment          Header cracking (internal and external)          Tube nipple cracking          Tube metal temperature assessment      Boiler Assessment          Tube wastage rates      High energy piping assessment          Circumferential weld inspection          Longitudinal weld inspection          Support system evaluation Metallurgy Capabilities     On-site capabilities          Tube sample analysis          Hardness testing          Replication metallography      Laboratory facilities          Tube sample analysis          Hardness and micro-hardness          Failure analysis          Chemical analysis (quantitative and qualitative)          Scanning electron microscopy          Alloy analysis          Mechanical testing          Life assessment (through use of microstructure           evidence and remaining creep life)          Material selection          Corrosion analysis          Deposit loading          Microstructure evaluation