Boiler Inspection

Generating Bank Tube Testing

Industrial Boiler
F Processing Plant
F Heating

F Pulp & Paper

F Incinerator

F Cogeneration

Generating
bank

Water wall
 Generating bank

Steam drum

Mud drum
 Tube Inspection Technique: RFT

F Low frequency
technique
F Transmit-Receive
F Separation: 3 tube OD
F Used for carbon Steel
tubing, Nickel, Sea-
Cure and other
ferromagnetic material
F Used for boiler tubes
 Voltage Plane Analysis

F Wall loss Grooves

Voltage
measurement plane
F Depth sizing
F Circumferential
sizing
Support
F Real-Time
 Boiler Probe

F Flexible design to negotiate elbows

F Replaceable centering brushes
F Standard probes for 1.5”, 2.0” and
2.5” tubes
 Tube Inspection Technique: IRIS

Normal Beam Testing

F Ultrasonic technique
F 10/15 MHz focus
F Hydraulic turbine
F Measures wall thickness
F Real-time technique A-scan

Target
Frontwall
Backwall
 IRIS Probe

F Hydraulic turbine
F 45-degree mirror for Centering Turbines
wall thickness
mapping
F Angled-mirror for
circumferential
crack detection
F Tube ID from
0.480”-3.0” Transducers
 IRIS probe for boiler tube

F Can inspect tube ID from 36mm to 75mm

F Flexible core that can negotiate 70-degree bend
F Backing piece with will to facilitate to pulling of
the probe in the bend.
New Real-Time Display

B-scan

C-scan

D-scan
 Generating Bank

Only tubes
accessible for RFT or
IRIS
 Defect at the bend

Difficulties
with boiler
tubes is to
detect defects
in the bend.

Flexible RFT
probes are
suitable for
full length
tube
insepction
Defect detected at the bend with RFT
Difficult to detect defects at the bend with IRIS
Defect at the Generating Bank
Defect in the Generating Bank

Corrosion above
the lower bend.
Found by RFT
and sized by
IRIS.