Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) and Quality Inspections
Test the properties of your materials for defects to ensure compliance with requirements, standards, regulations, and laws.
With over 15 years of quality assurance experience, future gas is a reputable company that has helped companies across various industries reduce quality risks for decades.
future gas NDT testing covers the frequently used test methods.
- Visual Inspection
- Magnetic Particle Inspection
- Radiography Testing
- Film Radiography
Visual Inspection
• Tools include fiberscopes, bores copes,magnifying glasses and mirrors. • Portable video inspection unit with zoom allows inspection of large tanks and vessels, railroad tank cars, sewer lines. • Robotic crawlers permit observation in hazardous or tight areas, such as air ducts, reactors, pipeline.
Magnetic Particle Inspection
The part is magnetized. Finely milled iron particles coated with a dye pigment are then applied to the specimen. These particles are attracted to magnetic flux leakage fields and will cluster to form an indication directly over the discontinuity.
Radiography Testing
The radiation used in radiography testing is a higher energy (shorter wavelength) version of the electromagnetic waves that we see as visible light. The radiation can come from an X-ray generator or a radioactive source.
Film Radiography
• The part is placed between the radiation source and a piece of film. • The part will stop some of the radiation. • Thicker and more distance area will stop more of the radiation. • The film darkness (density) will vary with the amount of radiation reaching the film through the test object.
Pipeline Inspection Using Eddy Current Array
Service inspection of pipeline
is a challenging yet crucial operation, particularly for pipes buried under ground. After scanning the pipeline from the inside with the proper equipment, sections that present any anomalies are excavated. Once the specific section of the pipeline is accessible, the entire surface of the exposed pipe is sand-blasted until the coating is completely removed. Traditional surface inspections such as magnetic particle inspection (MPI) require this kind of intensive coating-removal preparation procedure.
Detecting surface breaking cracks, including stress corrosion cracking (SCC), even though the technique has been used for pipeline inspection for decades without any major advancement.
MPI method also presents some significant Disadvantages:
the reliability of results is highly dependent on operator skill; when it’s raining, outdoor inspection is problematic; and there is no result traceability or information on the depth of flaws that are detected.
However, these weaknesses can be resolved by using a different.
Advantages of Eddy Current Array Over The Standard Surface Inspection Methods:
Using eddy current array (ECA) technology for stress corrosion cracking helps keep surface preparation to a minimum.
With acquisition speeds of up to two meters per second, performing an inspection with ECA is also extremely fast.
Instrument calibration is very simple; all that is required is a material sample with target defect to ensure that the sensitivity is adjusted properly.
Setup files can be saved and easily recalled for subsequent jobs. The data recording function permits post-process analysis as well as data archiving, and reports can be easily created directly on the instrument.
• Major time savings when compared with MPI.
• Intuitive imaging, very similar to MPI and PT displays.
• Solution uses existing standard phased array scanner.
• Result traceability and post-process analysis.
• High scan speed and instant results.
• Defect depth evaluation capability.
• Adjustable sensitivity.
• Environment-friendly method (no chemicals involved).
Storage Tank Inspection
In modern days, oil and gas storage tank’s life cycle can be managed with the computing solution, which enables the construction and operational maintenance records to be archived permanently by electronic means. Electronic archiving is the alternative method to conventional data archiving which requires manual intervention and record keeping. These are now being replaced with NDE Life time records.
Major benefits associated with electronic archiving are:-
Information is preserved in its original quality i.e. does not degrade with time Computing solutions provide much more efficiency and cost savings Reduced physical storage space requirements Electronic retrieval and management
GPS Welding Inspection Services
Welding Inspection
• Ultrasonic Testing of weld metals & other components • Ultrasonic Thickness gauging • Radiography Testing (X-Ray/Gamma Ray) • Radiography test with pipeline X-Ray Crawler • Magnetic Particle Testing (Visible & Fluorescent) • Dye penetrant Test
• 3rd Party Inspection • Welding Inspection (AWS/CSWIP). • Welder Qualification Test. • Preparation of WPS&PQR. • Visual Inspection. • Hardness Test. • Welding Wellhead. • Welding all steel types.