Remaining Life Assessment

Remaining Life Assessment

RCMS-UI Is committed to providing failure analysis and remaining useful services to the fossil utility industry.

Now, utilities must decide how to provide long-term, reliable power plant operation by extending the life of existing power plants. The decisions-encompassing run, repair, retire, and life extension-can be made with confidence through inspection and remaining useful life (RUL) analysis techniques developed and provided by RCMS-UI.

RCMS-UI s approach encompasses the following key phrases of a life assessment project :

• Pre-outage planning

• Outage inspection and NDE

• On-sie engineering of temporary and permanent repair modifications

• Online post-outage testing and analysis

• Analysis of components stress, fatique, metallurgy, corrosion, creep, and the remaining useful life of the component

• Run / repair / retire recommendation

• Specification and drawings for plant modifications and upgraded equipment Follow-up construction monitoring / testing and field service