Inspection
We provide a comprehensive service in Asset Integrity Management (AIM) for pressure systems, delivering risk-based programmes to focus inspections where they are most needed, to mitigate regulatory, process safety, environmental and commercial risks.
We provide inspection strategies and workscopes that enable compliance with statutory requirements and industry good practice, coordinating and delivering all site inspections (including non-destructive testing), as well as integrity assessment, weld repair solutions, component life extension and failure assessment.
Our inspection service
TÜV Rheinland is a leading provider of technical services worldwide. Our Risktec AIM team has extensive experience in providing inspection, integrity assessment and welding guidance for pressure parts in the power and oil sectors. Our people are client-focussed, quality-driven, industry experts with a practical, common sense approach.
We manage the integrity of pressure systems to:
- Ensure compliance
- Identify and resolve potential sources of unplanned unavailability
- Optimise the use of inspection opportunities and the client’s resources
We support the delivery of planned outages / turnarounds and breakdowns through:
- Coordination of the inspection scope and third party contractors
- Non-destructive testing (NDT)
- Visual examinations
- Integrity assessment
- Component life management
- Weld repair advice
Our comprehensive services are designed to offer our clients flexibility, enabling them to maximise their ability to respond to ever-changing market conditions.
Our AIM capabilities are underpinned by a thorough understanding of the relevant regulations, and practical experience of pressure system design and operation, degradation mechanisms and integrity assessment. As such, Risktec is able to act as ‘owner’s engineer’ for a wide range of clients, helping them manage their plant integrity risks and support postponements of examinations and increases in examination intervals, while ensuring regulatory compliance. This provides clients with greater operational flexibility against a background of challenging market conditions.
We also produce novel weld repair solutions, which can address degraded austenitic and ferritic materials, for example. These provide significant added value to clients during outages, turnarounds and breakdowns by minimising downtime and allowing greater planning time for component repair or replacement.
Key benefits
Key benefits of working with Risktec include:
- Impartial and independent advice
- Improved plant integrity, reliability and availability
- Bespoke inspection schedules to match clients’ operational requirements
- Industry-specific NDT techniques to detect and characterise defects
- Coordination of inspections to ensure planned downtime is minimised
- Prompt integrity assessment – run, repair, replace
- Novel weld repair solutions
- Out of hours support and rapid response, including breakdowns
Additional inspection services
Our parent organisation, TÜV Rheinland, offers additional inspection optimisation and related support. Find out more.