Industrial Corrosion Diagnosis
The French Corrosion Institute carries out failure analyses in the laboratory. However, in order to better understand real-world conditions or to intervene upstream of a suspected equipment failure, it is often relevant to work directly on the industrial site. This allows a number of factors to be directly assessed under real process conditions and information to be gathered in order to better address the problem.
Thus, whether to better understand real-world conditions or to help ensure equipment integrity, it is often necessary to assess on-site a number of parameters to gather information in order to better address the problem.
The French Corrosion Institute has in-situ observation and measurement capabilities enabling examinations at multiple scales (from site layout down to the microscopic scale). In addition to the MASE certification of the Lyon site and the various training qualifications authorising us to work on hazardous industrial sites or to safely enter equipment, we are also able to carry out field assessments notably via:
- Composition measurement (PMI — Positive Material Identification)
- Metal hardness measurement (Leeb, UCI)
- Polymer hardness measurement (Shore A, Shore D)
- Ultrasonic metal thickness measurement
- Coating thickness measurement
- Endoscopy
- Metallurgical replicas (outside regulatory requirements)
- On-site degradation assessment via equipment monitoring by acoustic emission, LPR probe, or atmospheric corrosivity and pollution monitoring
All these observations, combined with a precise understanding of the process, operating conditions and equipment history, allow the presence and severity of damage to be assessed.
