“Krasny Kotelshchik” Purchased Modern Portable Spectrometers
The Taganrog Boiler-Making Works “Krasny Kotelshchik” bought two portable spectrometers which allow carrying out the chemical composition analysis of tubes and welded joints quickly and with high accuracy. The new control equipment was given to the specialists of the largest production division, tube panel workshop.
Internal shop tests preceded the transfer of the spectrometers to the production division. The tests proved that the new equipment allowed determining the exact content of base and alloying elements in metal in full compliance with the requirements of the normative basis in force. The spectrometers were tested on carbon, low-alloy and high-alloy tubes, overlaid metal in welded joints including angle ones, as well as in welding wire.
The accurate control of metal chemical composition is not the only advantage of this equipment. The modern portable spectrometers replaced heavy, hard-to-operate steeloscopes rather subjective in terms of result evaluation, at that the quality of investigations and flexibility of control personnel increased in a significant way. Also the information value of control achieved a new level: results can be immediately obtained, they are shown on the spectrometer built-in display, in parallel being saved in the instrument memory.
With similar portable spectrometers “Krasny Kotelshchik” has been equipping its production during the last more than 10 years. They have been widely and successfully used for control of the chemical composition of materials and finished products in different workshops of the Taganrog factory. The investigations performed with an aid of the spectrometers meet the world standards; the data obtained therewith are acknowledged by inspection agencies both in Russia and abroad.