INSPECTION AND TESTING

All compressors are tested in accordance with ASME Performance Test Code 9 ‘Displacement Compressors, Vacuum Pumps and Blowers’. We carry out performance testing of complete packages. All instruments are calibrated to nationally accepted standards. We have full inspection capabilities using 3D co-ordinate measuring equipment and manual inspection equipment.

Options

A variety of non-destructive examination/testing (NDE/NDT) options are available.

• Liquid dye penetrant inspection (DPI)
• Magnetic particle inspection (MPI)
• Positive material identification (PMI)
• Radiographic testing (RT)
• Ultrasonic testing (UT)

We offer a wide range of mechanical and electrical testing in our test bay.

• API Standard 619 testing
• Endurance testing
• Hydrostatic pressure testing
• Leak testing
  – Pneumatic leak testing
  – Helium leak testing
  – High vacuum leak testing
• Performance testing / run testing
• Sound pressure level (‘noise’) measurement
• Static and dynamic balancing
• Vibration level measurement

Types of inspection include

• EN 10204 ‘Metallic Products – Types of Inspection Documents’
  – Declaration of compliance with the order “type 2.1”
  – Test report “type 2.2”
  – Inspection certificate “type 3.1”
  – Inspection certificate “type 3.2”
• ISO 10747 ‘Steel and Steel Products – Inspection Documents’
• Frosio coating inspection
• NACE coating inspection

The inspection of your compressor and compressor packages can be carried out by you, a third-party inspection agency (TPIA) or a classification society, such as

• American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)
• Bureau Veritas (BV)
• DNV GL
• Lloyd’s Register (LR)

Portable 3D Co-ordinate Measuring Machine

Witnessed Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT)

Testing

Balancing Machine