NADALEEN SINGH

A fail­ure analy­sis test is done reg­u­lar­ly to en­sure that equip­ment and ma­chin­ery used by en­er­gy-based com­pa­nies are with­in the stan­dards re­quired. Though it is a cost­ly ven­ture it must be done, said Riza Khan, man­ag­er, In-Corr-Tech Ltd. The com­pa­ny gets set to cel­e­brate 20 years in the main busi­ness of pro­vid­ing ser­vices to en­er­gy-based com­pa­nies. Khan ex­plain­ing fur­ther about the types of ser­vices his com­pa­ny of­fers, said: "We do in­spec­tions in the oil and gas sec­tor and petro­chem­i­cal sec­tors, in the ar­eas of as­set in­tegri­ty man­age­ment."

He added that the com­pa­ny de­vel­ops in­spec­tion pro­ce­dures and per­forms "spe­cif­ic cus­tomised test­ing to give the client the as­sur­ance that their sta­tion­ary and ro­tat­ing equip­ment is func­tion­ing cor­rect­ly and is de­fect free, so that the plant can con­tin­ue to op­er­ate." It's a cost­ly busi­ness for en­er­gy-based com­pa­nies like British Gas, Petrotrin and the oth­er com­pa­nies In-corr-tech Ltd pro­vides ser­vices for, but it must be done.

"When the plant comes down, they (the com­pa­nies) lose mil­lions of dol­lars a day. The risk is that they can­not af­ford to shut down. It is im­por­tant for the in­spec­tion to be done prop­er­ly with the most com­pe­tent per­son­nel and the lat­est tech­nol­o­gy."

Khan said when a tur­bine, re­former tube, pump or shaft fails it trig­gers a shut down of the plant. In-Corr-Tech Ltd has done busi­ness with the methanol com­pa­nies in T&T, Carib Brew­ery Ltd, Plipde­co and for the trans­port sec­tor. Oth­er as­pects of their busi­ness in­clude the in­vest­ment in a $3 mil­lion piece of equip­ment which al­lows them to ex­am­ine equip­ment up to 300,000 times its size known as trace sen­si­tive analy­sis. "We have lat­est tech­nol­o­gy. It al­lows us–what would usu­al­ly take weeks–to do in one day to two days. We are able to analyse things, 1/50 of the thick­ness of a strand of a hair.

About the com­pa­ny

In-Corr-Tech Ltd cel­e­brates 20 years of en­gi­neer­ing, in­spec­tion and de­sign, in­cor­po­rat­ing sev­er­al state-of-the -art tech­niques like ed­dy cur­rent, ul­tra­son­ic, scan­ning elec­tron mi­croscopy, par­ti­cle im­age analy­sis/nano-analy­sis, fail­ure analy­sis, he­li­um mass spec­trom­e­ter, mag­net­ic flux leak­age, re­mote field test­ing and acoustic emis­sion test­ing to in­ter­na­tion­al codes like ASME, AN­SI, API, ASTM, AWS etc. In-Corr-Tech Ltd is al­so in­volved in statu­to­ry in­spec­tions of hoists (cranes/el­e­va­tors), boil­ers and pres­sure ves­sels, per­forms in-house tech­ni­cal train­ing and cal­i­bra­tion of mis­cel­la­neous equip­ment. The com­pa­ny launched its foren­sic analy­sis and nano-analy­sis di­vi­sion dur­ing a sem­i­nar held at its fa­cil­i­ty, Sep­tem­ber 2010.

Spe­cialised tests such as gun shot residue (GSR), fin­ger­print and bod­i­ly flu­id analy­sis, ac­ci­dent re­con­struc­tion, bal­lis­tics in­ves­ti­ga­tion, drug ver­i­fi­ca­tion and il­lic­it drug residue de­tec­tion and ar­son ac­cel­er­ant analy­sis can be per­formed in-house by trained lab tech­ni­cians/en­gi­neers. The com­pa­ny is al­so in­volved in sev­er­al ar­eas of tech­ni­cal train­ing, cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, equip­ment cal­i­bra­tion, statu­to­ry in­spec­tion of hoists, el­e­va­tors, boil­ers, cranes, lift­ing equip­ment and ap­pli­ances con­duct­ed by three in-house gov­ern­ment li­censed in­spec­tors, and sup­plies ser­vices to all light and heavy man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­nies, oil and gas pro­duc­tion com­pa­nies, petro­chem­i­cal com­pa­nies through­out T&T and the Caribbean.

The com­pa­ny al­so has the first lo­cal ASME au­tho­rized in­spec­tor, Riza Khan.