ALMADAR INDUSTRIAL, MIT, with the support of local and International partners can provide and perform inspection and non-destructive testing using the advanced Inspection and NDT Techniques.

These techniques will help the industries in checking equipment and piping for any defects and/or deterioration prior to reaching a failure state where un-expected plant or equipment shutdown occurs. These advance techniques will minimize the shutdown of the equipment and any piping systems because the check can be done while the equipment and the piping system is in service, it does not require any shutdowns and/or any internal inspection.

Some of these techniques are as follows:

• Guided Wave Testing.
• Phased Array Testing.
• In-service Storage Tank Inspection.
• Pipe Crawler Inspection.
• Tofd

Used to check the followings:

• Insulated piping without removal of insulation
• Under-ground piping without excavating all.
• For Corrosion under insulation (CUI).

NDT - Guided Wave Inspection - Long Range Ultrasonic Testing

Are you sure about the condition of your piping? What about the buried sections or the insulated parts? It is not easy to asses their condition in an effective way. The piping may be located many meters above the ground where they cross roadways or other pipe racks and what do you know after some local spot measurements? As process piping is a vital element of your facilities good understanding of their reliability is preventing unexpected shutdowns or delays during maintenance periods.

The Solution

Guided Wave technology, also known as Long Range Ultrasonic Testing, is a relatively new inspection technology with very big advantages above any other spot measurement. The Guided Wave technology screens 100% of the volume of the piping inspected for metal loss features such as corrosion and erosion. The piping can be in operation, insulated and even be buried Guided Wave technology will supply more data than we ever had to found decisions on further inspection and even replacement.

Metal loss detection in pipeline and process piping

The Guided Wave technology uses a low frequency guided ultrasound waves traveling along the pipe, providing 100% coverage of the pipe length. In normal application, tens of meters of piping may be inspected from a single location. Effected areas are precisely located in terms of distance from the transducer ring and highlighted for further local examination by visual or other conventional NDT methods. This non-destructive screening technique can be used without extensive scaffolding and minimizes the requirement of removing insulation along the piping

With Guided Wave you lift your inspection plan to a much more effective level then ever before. Guided Wave technology has the following fields of application:

• Diameters 2“ to 42“
• Temperatures from -40 to 120ºC.
• Testing of elevated or complex piping from convenient locations.
• Road crossings and buried pipelines.
• Detection of corrosion/erosion under insulation.
• Offshore process piping/riser inspection.
• Chemical plant,, Power generation plant.
• Refinery piping.

Phased Array

Ultrasonic phased array testing is a powerful NDT technology and one whose use is growing rapidly, however it can seem complex to a person who has not worked with it.

What is a Phased Array?

An array transducer is simply one that contains a number of separate elements in a single housing, and phasing refers to how those elements are sequentially pulsed. A phased array system is normally based around a specialized ultrasonic transducer that contains many individual elements (typically from 16 to 256) that can be pulsed separately in a programmed pattern. These transducers may be used with various types of wedges, in a contact mode, or in immersion testing. Their shape may be square, rectangular, or round, and test frequencies are most commonly in the range from 1 to 10 MHz. You will find much more information about phased array probes in the following sections of this tutorial.

What do they do?

Phased array systems pulse and receive from multiple elements of an array. These elements are pulsed in such a way as to cause multiple beam components to combine with each other and form a single wave front traveling in the desired direction. Similarly, the receiver function combines the input from multiple elements into a single presentation. Because phasing technology permits electronic beam shaping and steering, it is possible to generate a vast number of different ultrasonic beam profiles from a single probe assembly, and this beam steering can be dynamically programmed to create electronic scans.

This enables the following capabilities:

1. Software control of beam angle, focal distance, and beam spot size. These parameters can be dynamically scanned at each inspection point to optimize incident angle and signal-to-noise for each part geometry.
2. Multiple-angle inspection can be performed with a single, small, multi-element probe and wedge, offering either single fixed angles or a scan through a range of angles.
3. These capabilities provide greater flexibility for inspection of complex geometries and tests in which part geometry limits access.
4. Multiplexing across many elements allows motionless high-speed scans from a single transducer position. More than one scan may be performed from a single location with various inspection angles.

Our Qualified Inspection Personal can perform the followings:

• External & Internal Inspection of Stationary Equipment.
• Piping Inspection.
• Structural and civil inspection.
• NDT inspection of welding jobs and thickness checks.

WPQ: Welder Performance Qualification (For Welders & Welding Operators)

We can:

• Certify welders/welding operators according to applicable code requirements.
• Do Re-Certification of existing welders/welding operators (certificate Renewal).
• Interpreting RT films and other NDT methods during above tests
• Maintain all welders’ records for clients’ reference.
• Follow-ups & Reminders for expire dates of certificates through our company E-Mail.

WPS: Welding Procedure Specification

Prepare Preliminary Welding Procedures for:

• All the metals.
• Dissimilar metals.

For the followings in accordance with applicable codes:

• Pressure vessels
• Piping
• Storage tanks
• Structural steels, tec.

PQR: Procedure Qualification Record

We can:

• Qualify the welding Procedures
• Witness the mechanical testing
• Approve the welding procedures

ALMADAR INDUSTRIAL, MIT, can provide inspection and testing for all Lifting Equipment, Appliances and Tackles for all plants and industries.

MIT have certified and Experienced Lifting Equipment Inspectors to perform the required work on the followings:

• Mobile Cranes.
• Case cranes.
• Overhead Cranes.
• Fork Lifts.
• Chain Blocks.
• Slings.
• Wire Ropes.

ALMADAR INDUSTRIAL, MIT, with the support of local and International partners provides and Vendor and Third Party Inspection Service in and out of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The following services can be provided for Petrochemical, Oil & Gas Industries:-

• Vendor inspection.
• Third Party Inspection.
• Expediting.
• QA/QC Auditing.

The following services can be provided for Petrochemical, Oil & Gas Industries:-

• Pressure vessels.
• Skid mounted equipments.
• Pumps.
• Valves.
• Materials.

ALMADAR INDUSTRIAL, MIT, has the experience, knowledge and the latest machines for material inspection and check. The PMI inspection technique can be provided for the followings:

Existing plant items such as:

• Valves.
• Piping.
• Stationary equipment internal & external parts.

Plants Under construction

• New material.
• New items.
• Welding electrodes & rods.

MIT can provide RBI inspection services to all clients.

Our certified and experienced inspectors are capable to perform the required work for RBI:

• Review of all History
• Prepare Inspection Procedures
• Perform the required inspection as per the International Standards
• Analyze the results & findings of the work done
• Issue the required reports with recommendations and the action required.
• Follow-up the repair actions and plan the re-inspection

MIT can provide fitness for service analysis to help the clients use the part or the equipment for the intended use after analyzing the current condition with precise recommendation and inspection measures to give the client enough time to replace and/or repair the defective item.

Our certified and experienced inspectors are capable to perform the required work for RBI:

• Review of all History
• Prepare Inspection Procedures
• Perform the required inspection as per the International Standards
• Analyze the results & findings of the work done
• Issue the required reports with recommendations and the action required.
• Follow-up the repair actions and plan the re-inspection

MIT can provide through experts in material & corrosion control to give proper investigation for any part failure, this will include but not limited to the followings:

• Study the case
• Investigate the failure
• Analyze the findings
• Issue the proper technical report stating the failure case and prevention measures to prevent its occurrence

MIT can provide detailed and precise inspection to find any Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI) Our experienced and certified inspectors can perform the required work to discover the CUI in the equipment and piping. This will include but not limited to the followings:

• History review
• Operating parameters study
• Investigation of similar cases
• Issuance of inspection plan
• Develop inspection procedures
• Perform the required inspection
• Issuance of technical reports with findings and recommendations
• Categorizing the findings based on the procedure requirements
• Follow-up of action taken to rectify the findings

Old plants as well as new ones have some missing drawings and/or un-updated P&ID’S. this is due to modifications and or poor documentation systems.

MIT have the capability to utilize the experienced and certified people to do the review and update of all plant drawings, including but not limited to the followings:

• P&ID’S review and update
• Isometric drawings of piping update and review, this will utilize the people experience to trace the lines and all plant components, draw them using the latest Auto-Cadd software which will enable the client to electronically update the P&amo ID’S and Isometric drawings in future and keep a softcopy of all systems in the plant.

• Meridium is a software that store, analyze inspection data based on the entered data for all plant equipment and piping systems. This will require special people to enter the data and analyze the results.
• MIT have trained, experienced and qualified personal to enter inspection data in the Software for inspection planning and re-scheduling the inspection. They are also capable to analyze the data entered and the outcome of the software. This will ease the work for the client and enable Management to take the right decision.