Integrity, process, and maintenance engineers continuously work to maintain the safety, reliability, and performance of process-fired heaters, furnaces, and steam generators. The inspection of these coils using conventional NDT can be challenging.
If left uninspected this can lead to some common failures:
Creep growth and bulging from improper heat distribution and excessive fouling
Broad area corrosion and erosion
Localized metal loss (pitting and fretting)
These failures can have significant implications for operators, such as harm to plant personnel and equipment, production loss, and unplanned and costly shutdowns.
Quest Integrity’s state-of-the-art Furnace Tube Inspection System (FTIS®), a smart in-line inspection (ILI) technology and LifeQuest™ Heater Advanced Engineering Assessment capability are the right solutions to help combat these challenges. FTIS® is a complete high-resolution automated ultrasonic inspection technology that quickly and accurately inspects piping coils per API recommended practice 573. This innovative package allows operators to inspect and assess even the most complex coil configurations.
FTIS® and LifeQuest™ Heater Advanced Engineering Assessment will allow you to:
Obtain High Resolution Inspection Coverage
Industry-leading inspection resolution ensuring a complete tube condition assessment.
Inspect Coils Connected to Common Header
No need to remove common headers for in-line coil inspection access eliminating costly and timely asset modifications.
Navigate Challenging Return Bends
The FTIS® intelligent pigging technology is capable of making unlimited short-radius 180-degree turns.
Improve Reliability and Decrease Failure
Maximize uptime, minimize expensive repairs and get the most from your heater.
Helping operators to:
Minimize costly unplanned offline events.
Improve heater reliability and decrease failure risk.
Improve maintenance planning and tube replacement scheduling.