Power Piping Inspection

Steam Line Inspections:

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TKS engineers and nondestructive testing technicians have power piping inspection experience with conventional testing methods and advanced techniques like phased array ultrasound and time-of-flight diffraction.

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Main steam, hot reheat, and cold reheat lines, girth welds, seam welds, and elbows are inspected for creep damage, fatigue cracks, corrosion, wear, and other service-related flaws.

TKS has experience with:

• Tube samples for remaining life creep life

• Visual testing

• Video internal testing

• Ultrasonic thickness gaging

• Replicas

• Flow accelerated corrosion (FAC) inspection

• Wet fluorescent magnetic particle inspection

• Eddy current testing

• IRIS inspection

• Metallurgical analyses