Quest Reliability’s sister company, Quest TruTec, provides inspection services utilizing, FTIS™, an intelligent pig capable of rapid automated ultrasonic (UT) inspection of convection and radiant furnace tubes as well as difficult-to-inspect piping/pipelines up to 5 miles (8 kilometers) in length.  Standard reporting capabilities range from standard line plots and tables to graphical 3-Dimensional (3D) pipe layouts (as seen to the right) allowing for accurate and timely risk-based decisions for resource management.

Features

• Capable of inspecting 4" to 8” (100 to 200 mm) diameter piping / tubing
• Pipe / tube wall thicknesses up to 0.5” (13 mm)
• Simultaneously measures wall thickness, average wall thickness, pit depth, inside radius, average radius, and axial position

Benefits

• Capable of detecting pipe / tube wall loss
• Corrosion (internal / external)
• Erosion (internal / external)
• Pitting (internal / external)
• Mechanical damage (internal / external)
• Capable of detecting deformation
  • Bulging (i.e., flame impingement)
  • Swelling (i.e., creep strain)
  • Denting
  • Ovality
• Proprietary 3D reports allow for improved resource management as well as operational analysis
• Performs non-contact in-situ measurements
• Survives harsh hydraulic inspection environments
• Inspects both convection and radiant section or entire pipe length at 2 feet (61 cm) per second
• Negotiates unlimited short radius (1D) return bends
• No scaffolding required 
• Engineering analysis available through LifeQuest™

Applications

• Fired / Process Heaters
• Numerous furnace types (e.g., Platformers, CCR, vacuum, coker,
  crude, can, cabin, etc.)
• Various coil configurations (vertical, horizontal, u-shape, etc.)
• Changing piping diameters throughout coil's length (4”, 5”, 6” and 8”)
• Non-piggable furnaces in some cases (e.g., common headers)
• Pipelines
• Underground / buried / road crossings
• Insulated (e.g., asbestos)
• Overhead (e.g., congested pipe racks)
• In plant / between plants / wharf lines
• 4-8” diameter pipelines – under 5 miles (8 kilometers) in length

Additional Information

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