Umbrella Platform
Inspection Services can be provided to assist your site team to pinpoint key improvement areas, highlight bottlenecks and suggest where different maintenance approaches may bring benefits. Whilst your maintenance team are highly skilled and working across all the technologies on your manufacturing site, we recognise they will not always possess the in-depth knowledge required on GEA specialist process equipment.
Inspections can range from visual checks to random sampling of components or documentation.
For instance we can offer GEA Niro spray drying chamber NDT crack tests or inspection of your GEA Tuchenhagen components.
GEA Tuchenhagen valve and pump and seal inspection
As we all know, seals are wearing parts – failure of just one seal can cause considerable product losses and bacteriological contamination of the product – and this needs to be prevented!A seals lifespan can only be estimated in advance, its true service life depends on the materials used and the process conditions.
Therefore GEA Process Engineering Ltd offers you a visual inspection of your plant as a first step. We will dismantle a number of components selected in consultation with you and examine and document the product contact seals.
We will then use the results of the inspection and the process parameters you provide to work out a maintenance recommendation tailored to your process.
NDT Inspection of GEA Niro Spray Dryer Chambers
Rather than using thermal stress testing that can cause fatigue and cracking of process equipment, GEA Process Engineering Ltd offers non-destructive testing to ensure high quality and hygiene.
The non-destructive test (crack test) of spray dryers and sanitary process equipment may include:
- Spray drying chambers;
- Cyclones;
- Bag filters (e.g. SANICIP™);
- VIBRO-FLUIDIZERŪ.
Inspection of spray drying chambers is offered by using either a special umbrella platform or, for large drying chambers, normal scaffolding inside the chamber. The platform is used when spraying water-washable fluorescent penetrant liquid onto the inner surface of the process equipment and for later inspection and repair (if required).
The test report will illustrate the condition of the process equipment and, in the case of cracks, will show the location of any areas that are in need of attention. If needed, repairs can be performed immediately after the crack test has been completed.
GEA Process Engineering Ltd can perform crack tests on a case-by-case basis or set up an agreement to perform annual inspections.