Non destructive measurement of alloy ingress into industrial infrastructure where alloy is used as a leak sealant

Rawwater正在将其独特的泄漏和缺陷密封技术商业化。商业化的剩余障碍之一是对材料通过维修现场进入系统的控制。对于许多应用程序来说，这是不可取的。NPL拥有广泛的知识和获得无损检测(NDT)设备的机会。拟议的项目将测试有限数量的典型泄漏修复的无损检测选项，以评估无损检测是否能够识别是否有任何入口。实现无损检测方法如此关键的原因是，唯一的另一种测量方法是破坏性的，这要么涉及改变结束状态，潜在地扰乱任何入口，因此不提供准确的信息，要么物理地破坏每个试件，这在商业上或环境上都不可行。目标是确定用于实验室分析的无损检测选项，允许Rawwater控制参数以减少/移除入口，并探索在现场使用这种方法的可能性，以向客户提供后密封分析，以证明没有发生入口。

Rawwater is commercialising its unique leak and defect sealing technologies. One of the remaining hurdles to commercialisation is control of material ingress through the repair site and into the system. For many applications, this is undesirable. NPL have a vast range of knowledge and access to equipment for Non-Destructive Testing (NDT). The proposed project would be to test NDT options for a limited number of 'typical' leaks repairs to assess whether NDT will be able to identify if there is any ingress. The reason that it is so crucial to achieve an NDT method is that the only other way of measuring is destructively which either involves changing the end state, potentially disrupting any ingress and therefore not providing accurate information or physically destroying each test piece, which is not a commercially or environmentally viable option.The target is to identify NDT options for laboratory analysis, to allow Rawwater to control parameters to reduce/remove ingress and explore the potential to use this in the field to provide customers with a post seal analysis to prove ingress has not occurred.