TCR Arabia get an appreciation letter from Saudi Electric Company (SEC)

TCR Arabia is pleased to inform that our NDT team carried out Turbines Inspection Job in Tabuk Power Plant last week and received the below appreciation letter for their quality inspection job.  Techniques used in this project included Eddy Current Testing (blades inspection with our new equipment), Ultrasonic Testing and Magnetic Particle Inspection. TCR Arabia's Team comprising of Mr. Periasamy Senthil, Mr. Mohammed Ehsanulla and Mr. Mukesh Chandra carried out this job.

TCR Arabia now undertakes Acoustic Eye Inspection for Heat Exchanger, Boilers and Fin Fan Tubes

TCR Arabia are engaged in advanced NDT inspection of Heat Exchanger and Boiler tubes employing latest Acoustic Eye tube inspection technology to discerning users  for the safety and integrity of their process equipment. Acoustic Eye) tube inspection is Fast (10 seconds per tube, up to 2000 tubes inspection in one shift of 12 hours), Non-invasive and provides in-built computerized signal analysis tools to quickly identify tube faults (e.g. pitting/ wall loss, erosions, holes/ leakage, blockage, bulging) in heat exchangers/condensers/boilers/chillers/reactor tubes.

Acoustic Eye’s breakthrough, non-invasive solution for today’s hard-to-inspect tubes up to 4” inner diameter enables ultra-fast, accurate inspection of boilers, Fin Fans and other heat exchangers, regardless of tube shape or material.

Main advantages:

Can test up to 4”inner diameter any shape or tube material

Ultrafast, non invasive, inspection, less than 10 secs. Per tube, 5sec for less than 6m tube – ideal for 100% inspections and emergence situation.

It can detect blockages apart from pitting or punctures- useful for detecting extent of cleaning, to increase efficiency of heat exchanger

Non-Traversing NDT  system with no moving parts

Fast inspection of tubes, each tube irrespective of length it takes 10 seconds for inspection

Tube wall material independent, can be used for tubes of any material

Tube configuration independent (fin tubes, U-tubes, multi bends, 90 deg turns)

Extremely accurate

Self Analyzing  special software does automatic analysis using Matlab and C++

Automatic report Generation (in PDF/HTML format)

Can be used for tubes from 7 mm ID to 70 mm ID

User benefits:

Fast and accurate detection of tube faults and type, position/ location and size/extent of faults

Resultant time saving in taking corrective actions on tubes with defects

Faster turn-around of equipment contributing to faster unit/plant startup

TCR Advanced in Gujarat has a groundbreaking ceremony for new premises

Below shown photographs are from a Bhumipujan for new Building premises of TCR Advanced.  A digging was done with puja to initiate the construction activities. The new building will be completed in 2012.

Paresh Haribhakti to deliver a talk in INS Workshop

The Indian Nuclear Society (INS) has invited Mr. Paresh Haribhakti, MD of TCR Advanced to deliver a lecture at the Workshop on Corrosion and Condition Monitoring during February 13 – 17, 2012 at Mumbai. Participants will be mainly from industry where corrosion and service induced degradation is a concern. This lecture will focus on corrosion - different forms of corrosion, corrosion degradation, corrosion monitoring, corrosion preventive techniques and condition monitoring – various testing techniques for assessment of healthiness of the plant components and significance if flaws thus detected. The use of these techniques to ensure safe and reliable operation of the plant components will be emphasized.

INS has termed, Mr. Haribhakti as a recognized expert in the field of in-situ metallography. The organizing committee of the workshop requested him to deliver a talk on “In-situ Metallography and its Applications”. The duration of the talk would be for 90 minutes.

TCR Arabia is participating in the 14th Middle East Corrosion Conference

TCR Arabia is participating in the 14^th Middle East Corrosion Conference which is scheduled from 12-15^th February, 2012.

Please accept this as a personal invitation to attend this Conference & Exhibition and meet us at stall number E-16.

TCR Arabia undertakes NDT project at the Haram site in Mecca

PMI Inspectors from TCR Arabia carried out Inspection of Zam-Zam Filtration Tanks in Haram (Mecca) in January 2012 to verify the material grade.  These tanks are located in the basement of Kabah area within the grand mosque in Mecca. The job was carried out in the cellar of Haram where these filtration tanks are commissioned.  This inspection job was carried out by our PMI Engineer Mohammed Iqbal and the project Incharge was Mohammed Shuhab.

TCR launches ARTIS - Automated Reformer Tube Inspection System

TCR NDT inspection department has now launched a revolutionary new product called ARTIS, which is an Automated Reformer Tube Inspection System.

One of the major concerns in the maintenance of primary reformer is to predict the behavior of the reformer tubes. The prediction is based on selection of suitable inspection methods. Most importantly, the creep strain, mid-wall fissure detection and bowing measurement. ARTiS can perform all these tests at a time, providing integrated and interactive digital inspection record. ARTiS has leading advantage to inspect from external surface without needing removal of catalyst. The system measures creep strain with high precision IR sensors. Mid-wall fissures are detected through ultrasonic flaw detection. Use of gyroscopes measures precise level of bowing. More than a gigabyte of data is gathered for each tube inspected inclusive of flaw detection dB levels with screen captures, bowing and creep strain. Precision encoders used in crawling ensure accurate location of defectives and generation of 3D plots across length of tube.

INSPECTION BENEFITS
•    Inspection without catalyst removal,
•    No surface cleaning needed
•    Automated crawling action avoids need for scaffolding
•    Faster – precise PC controlled movement
•    Full coverage across length of tube
•    Built-in water tank for ease of ultrasound coupling. No need for overhead water drum arrangement

ARTIS now allows TCR’s inspectors to perform real-time Fissure detection, Creep Strain measurement, Visual Aid and Bowing Measurement.

Rohit Bafna, Director at TCR, honored with “Bihar Asmita Samman 2011”

Rohit Bafna, Director at TCR was honored with “Bihar Asmita Samman 2011” in a grand function at Patna, the capital of state of Bihar for his  contribution to Global Business and promotion of the skills of the Indian Workers.
  

“Bihar Asmita Award” is given to the dynamic people to bring in enthusiasm in youth to promote and to encourage country men and more so ever people from Bihar, who contribute in the promotion of Bihar from being outside Bihar and make Bihar feel Proud of them.

Mr. Rohit Bafna received this award from the Governor of Gujrat and past Chairman Bihar Assembly, Mr. Kailashpati Mishra. Also present of the occasion were Mr. Prem Kumar, Minister of Development and Mr. Shyam Rajak, Minister of Food and Consumer Protection. Also present on that day was Mr. Shatrughan Sinha, former Cabinet Minister and famous Bollywood Actor.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Rohit Bafna said that this award represents the hard work and dedication of all team members of various TCR group companies worldwide. The company aims to work with increased energy in 2012 to bring more laurels to India.

The “Bihari Asmita Award 2011” took place at Shri Krishna Memorial Hall in Patna on 17th December 2011 before large audience of 3500 people from Patna and all over India. The award function was followed by an entertainment program.

The Event was sponsored by Bihar Helpline and National Hindi weekly newspaper Bihari Khabar. The selection committee comprised of Kumar Bihari Pandey, Bipin Kumar Singh, Sanjeev Rana, Kunal Singh, Anoop Narayan Singh and Manoj Singh Rajput.

TCR Arabia team members receive appreciation certificates from JUPC

Jubail United Petrochemical Company (JUPC) based in Saudi Arabia had its EG Shutdown in October, 2011. Plant Reliability and NDT Expert Technicians from TCR Arabia (www.tcr-arabia.com) worked at this shutdown and inturn received appreciation from the Client for their efforts.

The JUPC complex is centered around a cracker producing one million tonnes per year of ethylene. The complex is based in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia.

The complex's downstream products are 575,000t of ethylene glycol (EG) per year, 400,000t of high density polyethylene (hdPE) per year and 150,000t of linear alpha olefins (LAO) per year.

Jubail United Petrochemical Company (JUPC) is a SABIC affiliate company.

TCR Engineering Services participated in the Fertilizers Association of India (FAI) annual seminar 2011

The Fertilizers Association of India (FAI) annual seminar 2011 was held from 7th to 9th December, 2011 at New Delhi. FAI Annual seminar is an international event that attracted more than 1550 delegates from India and abroad including senior government officials. The seminar provides unique opportunity to decision makers to interact eminent personalities  and participate to exhibition gallery. TCR Engineering Services (www.tcreng.com), participated in the international event making their presence at exhibition gallery. New advanced non destructive testing instrumentation and techniques were demonstrated.

More than 500 visitors availed live demonstration of ARTiS – the Automated Reformer Tuber inspection System and Acoustic Eye. ARTiS can meticulously perform speedy inspection of reformer / cracker tubes to detect creep fissures, creep strain and bowing having reproducible result and digital reporting.


The Acoustic Eye technology was introduced at the stall for instantaneous inspection of heat exchanger tubes and boiler tubes, having any material of construction, any configuration received phenomenal response from the visitors. The technique can detect leak, pitting, erosion or blockage pin pointing location of defect.

TCR Arabia participates in SABIC’s reliability awareness campaign 2011

On November 30, 2011, TCR Arabia (www.tcr-arabia.com) participated in SABTANK’s, a SABIC affiliate company, for its Reliablity Awareness campaign. TCR Arabia based in Dammam, Saudi Arabia offers material testing, failure analysis, NDT, Condition Assessment, Plant Shutdown Management, Fitness for Service, API evaluations, RLA and RBI services.

Team Members of TCR in Mhape celebrate the birthday of Founder and Chairman, Mr. V.K. Bafna

On November 22, 2011 all team members of TCR Engineering at its corporate headquarters in Mhape, Navi Mumbai celebrated the birthday of the Founder and Chairman, Mr. V.K. Bafna. 
 

TCR gets approved for projects with MEW in Kuwait at the Doha East Power Station

TCR Kuwait (www.tcr-kuwait.com) has secured a prestigious project for works at MEW-DEPS in Kuwait.

Siemens awards TCR Advanced with “A” supplier rating

In November 2011, Siemens (www.siemens.com) conducted their supplier evaluation. TCR Advanced is proud to receive the “A” rating from this audit. This rating is based on the work executed by TCR Advanced (www.tcradvanced.com) for Siemens Oil and Gas – Industrial Power (Steam Turbine) business.

TCR Arabia Company Limited participated in the 1st NACE-Jubail Industrial Forum

TCR Arabia Company Limited participated in the 1^st NACE-Jubail Industrial Forum held from 17th to 19^th October, 2011 at Jubail Industrial College in Jubail Industrial City.

This Forum focused on Water Treatment and Cathodic Protection Techniques that are used quite extensively in industrial plants in ensuring plant equipment integrity, reliability and operations. TCR Arabia was able to exhibit the latest technique in Water Microbiology Analysis and Metallurgical Services.  TCR Arabia also exhibited the advanced NDT Techniques like ToFD, Phased Array and Thermography.