Attempts have been made for several years now to introduce the breakthroughs made in artificial intelligence in almost all technical areas. Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) was not to be an exception. These inspections analyse the integrity of components or materials by interpreting different signals or images. In this way, an expert in a given type of … Read more
Visual inspection consists of observing the external or accessible surfaces of parts, components or materials, either with the naked eye or using optical instruments. It is the Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) technique par excellence and its physical agent – light – does not cause any damage to the vast majority of materials. Changes in the properties … Read more
As is described in our article “Ultrasonics. Beyond the coupling medium” , dry inspection makes it possible to address the evaluation of components under extreme working conditions, the inspection of complex geometry elements, the reduction of surface contamination on parts and the avoidance of the need to install water circuits in productive machines, also facilitating … Read more
Tecnatom has been selected by the Spanish company Endesa Generación for the performance of a pilot digitalisation project, in this case associated with the predictive maintenance of the main transformer at the San Adriá de Besós combined cycle plant (Spain). As power transformers are the most critical components of any electricity generation, transmission and distribution … Read more
Tecnatom has been awarded contracts in Chile and Argentina for the monitoring of fossil fuel electricity-generating plants. Pampa Energía, the largest private electricity utility in Argentina, has selected our TecOS SOLCEP tool for the monitoring of the performance of its plants, and has contracted Tecnatom for the supply, configuration and maintenance of the tool at … Read more
In a previous article we explained that it was possible to generate an ultrasonic beam in a material without the need for any part of the inspection system to be in contact with the part to be inspected. In the case of ultrasounds generated by EMAT, we will make use of electromagnetic phenomena to generate … Read more
In a previous article it was explained that ultrasonics (UT) are habitually used in industry to ensure quality by detecting changes in the properties of both recently manufactured and in-service components. In ultrasonic inspection, high frequency sound waves are transmitted through the material and are picked up after interacting with the different elements of the … Read more
As was explained in the first article in this series, which dealt with non-destructive testing, ultrasound can be transmitted through a medium, be it gaseous, liquid or solid. However, they experience special difficulty when it comes to passing from one medium to another if these present characteristics as dissimilar as air and metal. For this … Read more
Non-Destructive testing: the need to see inside Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) is very widely used in different industrial sectors for the analysis of the interior structure and integrity of parts and components without causing them any type of damage. It was during the 1930’s that ultrasonics was first used in industrial applications, more specifically in the … Read more
Almost certainly, on some occasion, while using your computer, tablet or telephone, you will have pressed a button you did want to press, deleting a valuable item of information that you did not want to lose, or sent a message to the wrong address without meaning to. Or perhaps you have wondered why in the … Read more
El proyecto ITER es uno de los proyectos de inversión más grandes del mundo, en el que colaboran más de 35 países con el objetivo de demostrar la viabilidad de la fusión nuclear como fuente de energía inagotable. Para ello se está construyendo uno de los dispositivos de fusión por confinamiento magnético más grandes del mundo, en el que se probarán tecnologías, materiales y regímenes físicos integrados necesarios para la producción de electricidad basada en la fusión.
Tecnatom forma parte del proyecto aportando la creación de la plataforma de simulación de lo que será el simulador de la sala de control de ITER, la integración de modelos existentes desarrollados por distintos suministradores, la integración del sistema de control CODAC, el desarrollo de modelos adicionales, así como el mantenimiento y la formación en la plataforma.
