High Pressure and High Temperature (HPHT)
High pressure / high temperature applications in many cases involve hazardous media such as corrosive gases and liquids at pressure sometimes in excess of 500bar and temperatures ranging from 20 to 1000K. Using our expertise in the design and development of custom test rigs and predictive simulations, we help our clients to qualify new products or components for HPHT duty by design and development of test facilities based on our available resources or in many cases, completely unique testing facilities based on client requirements. This allows for a fast response and reduces timescales to qualification of new products for safety critical applications, while obtaining information that assists our clients in solving difficult industrial problems.
Research and Testing
- HPHT seal testing in gaseous and hazardous fluid media.
- Leak testing, detection and quantifiable measurement methods for gas and liquids.
- HPHT destructive testing i.e. Burst tests, accelerated fatigue tests.
- High pressure steam and superheated steam gasket testing for the power generation industry
- HPHT impulse, fatigue and endurance testing
- Materials selection and analysis
- RGD testing modelling.
- Failure analysis, prediction and mitigation of cracking due to impulse cycling.
- High speed (up to 60,000rpm) turbomachinery testing and modelling
Design, Modelling and Product Development
- Design services and reviews for HPHT components including valves, seals, turbomachinery, pumps, actuator systems, riser components etc.
- Modelling and testing of new components using in house code, FEA, CFD and coupled FSI (fluid structure interaction).