Cable and Materials Testing
Testing of cables, umbilicals and their components at BPP Renewables in-house or at approved external test facilities, using recognised international standards including ANSI, API, ASTM, ICEA, IEC, ISO, NEMA and NACE.
Mechanical Testing
Testing
- Combined torsion balance and tension
- Combined tension and bending (reeling)
- Fatigue loading
- Hydrostatic loading
- Impact and point loading
AC/DC Cable Testing
Testing
- Current rating
- Conductor & insulation resistance
- Screen resistivity
- Partial discharge (PD)
- Loss angle (tan δ or dissipation factor)
- Capacitance, inductance
- Heating cycle voltage
- Current rating (or ampacity)
Material Analysis
Testing
- Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
- Thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA)
- Thermal ageing
- Environmental Stress Cracking (ESC)
- Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) & analysis
- Sulphide stress cracking (SSC) and stress corrosion cracking (SCC)
- Microscopic examination & SEM
- Chemical and mechanical testing
Testing
