Power Generation
In the increasingly competitive energy market, utilities and equipment manufacturers alike are continually striving to improve efficiency and minimize cost. For equipment owners, that means, maximizing reliability and up-time, and avoiding costly unplanned shutdowns. For equipment manufacturers, it’s continually raising the bar on performance, and reducing cost of ownership of the equipment by improving reliability. These objectives share a common need: a complete and thorough understanding of the long-term behavior of materials across the entire operating range is necessary to enable increased performance without compromising reliability. The need has never been greater as equipment and materials are pushed to higher loadings, and new, higher-capability materials are being introduced to extend the operating envelope.
With extensive knowledge of power generation equipment, and the associated materials of construction, The M&P Lab is uniquely qualified to assist clients with a wide array of materials testing services for the power generation industry. Among the services provided are:
- Full characterization of material properties for use by product designers
- Qualification of new processes or process changes
- Quality assurance testing on internal processes or incoming vendor materials
- Failure analysis of in-service components
We offer expertise on a wide variety of both non-metallic and metallic materials, including superalloys, composites, and other high-performance materials. |
