Modern Inspection Equipment Successfully Put in Use at “Krasny Kotelshchik”

The Taganrog Boiler-Making Works “Krasny Kotelshchik” (TKZ) continues procuring the inspection equipment required for effective work of company dedicated experts. The stock of equipment has been recently replenished with two X-ray units and a metallographic microscope. The specialized facilities were budgeted out of TKZ annual investment program.

The high level of the inspection equipment is an additional product quality assurance, people at the company are convinced. For that reason such investments are given a close attention. The purchased X-ray units replaced the outdated ones. In this way the quality of control operations was increased.

These modern instruments are involved in non-destructive examination of welded joints of boiler heating surfaces. Radiographic tests with an aid of the new portable X-ray units are carried in open-type X-ray chambers or in open areas of TKZ workshops.

The other no less important investment of 2023 is the purchase of the metallographic microscope with magnet attachment to surfaces of various configurations. TKZ specialists appreciated technical capabilities of this equipment also when executing NPP projects.

The microscope allows performing a complete metal microstructure analysis with a 100-500 times magnification and revealing micro cracks in welded joins directly on products. A portable grinding-polishing machine bought as a set with the microscope is used to prepare surfaces for metallographic examinations.