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	Testing of products at both cryogenic and elevated-temperature environments is available at SwRI.

The Flow Component Testing Facilities (FCTF) at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have a number of different facilities that allow them to provide a variety of valve integrity testing services, such as:

• Cryogenic valve testing

• Valve fugitive emissions testing

• Seal tests

• Flow coefficient testing

• Erosion testing

• Pump performance evaluation

• Noise and vibration testing

Testing is conducted utilizing customized procedures as well as testing from standards including:

	This blast chamber can be internally heated to provide high pressure-high temperature conditions for testing.

• ANSI/ISA S75.02 (Flow coefficient testing)

• BS 6364 (Cryogenic valve testing)

• ISO 15848 (Fugitive emissions testing)

• SPE 77/312 (Fugitive emissions testing)

Specific test capabilities include:

• Nitrogen gas flows up to 230 MMSCFD and 3,000 psig

• Water flow rates up to 32,000 B/D (900 gpm)

• Sand slurry flow rates up to 10,000 B/D (300 gpm)

• Temperature testing from -320°F to 500°F

• Static pressure testing up to 20,000 psig with water or nitrogen

For more information about the product performance test capabilities at SwRI, please contact:

Shane Siebenaler
Research Engineer
(210) 522-5758
Fax: (210) 681-9661
E-mail: ssiebenaler@swri.org
 

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December 04, 2007