Optimizing Performance to Build Better Return on Investment

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Meeting the demand

Generation plant facilities comprise numerous complex elements, including many critical components that may be at high risk of failure or approaching the end of their design life. Kinectrics can help you manage aging equipment and generation assets effectively to avoid costly outages and meet the demand for optimal performance.

A reputation for excellence

Kinectrics’ reputation for excellence in condition assessment has been proven over nine decades of success in providing research and technical support for one of North America’s largest and most reliable utilities. Our team of qualified scientists, engineers and professional staff, working in state-of-the-art facilities, delivers superior results for utilities and other industries. Kinectrics provides comprehensive condition assessment and life extension strategies to maximize ROI.

Comprehensive capabilities

Our broad-based services for generation plant and industrial facilities include:

• Forensic technical investigations and root cause analyses
• Degradation mechanisms: creep, fatigue, fracture
• Materials characterization and microstructural analyses
• Materials selection and performance
• Metallography/metallurgical/mechanical testing
• Risk Based Maintenance Solutions

• Surface analyses – Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES), Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)

• Corrosion: Electro-chemical, Micro-biologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC), protection, control, monitoring

• Plant Chemistry: Primary Heat Transport System (PHTS), feedwater, Corrosion Product Transport (CPT), chemical cleaning support
• Fossil boiler tube and high energy piping failure / condition assessment
• Field support: Cathodic Protection (CP), replication, online instrumentation

Specialized facilities

Kinectrics’ unique state-of-the-art laboratories and testing facilities give you the advantage of established, superior scientific and engineering expertise. Our facilities and services include:

• Static/refreshed corrosion autoclaves, loops, model boiler
• Advanced electron optics - Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Orientation Imaging Microscopy (OIM), X-ray Fluorescence (XRF)
• Burst Test Facility (concrete bunker)
• Tube test facilities for leak rate (1000 1 storage vessel)
• Oxiprobe steam generator (SG) tube deposit measurements
• Electrochemical noise monitoring systems
• Small specimen techniques for life assessment (EDM machining, punch tests)

• Flow assisted corrosion (FAC) test facilities (rotating cylinder, flow loops)

For more information, contact

Allan Jarvine, 416.207.6000 x5785, allan.jarvine@kinectrics.com