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ETD is pleased to release an updated plant services brochure.
Have a look at the brochure below to see how ETD can help with your plant management.
A link to the brochure is also available here: https://www.etd-consulting.com/about/
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European Technology Development Ltd. (ETD) are proud to have sponsored prizes for some of the best performing 2026 Engineering Graduates of Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
On Monday 13th July 2026 ETD were invited by the University to give the prizes to these students. The picture below shows Dr Sarinova Simanjuntak (in the middle) handing over the prize certificates, on behalf of ETD, to some of these students.
European Technology Development Ltd. (ETD) – a company based in Surrey (just south of London), are organising an International Conference on the ‘Decarbonisation of Power Generation’ – the use of H2 and other alternative fuels plus nuclear fusion, energy storage and renewables. Due to unfortunate local circumstances, we had to change the dates from April to June 23-25, 2025 and make a slight change in the venue, although still in central London.
This MIMA-4 Conf. (4th in the series of MIMA conferences) also covers Materials, Inspection, Monitoring and Assessment (MIMA) and flexible operation of fossil power plants (both materials and cost issues) used to back-up the intermittent renewables.
It’s our mission to provide you with a great experience, which is the reason why we are also hosting a boat cruise & dinner on Day 2 (24/06/25) from 18:00 PM to 22:00 PM, crusading over the Thames to the beautiful sights of London. You do not want to miss out!
Listen to the contributions from the UK industry, research/ universities/ UK government, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Australia and European countries.
This is a great opportunity for Networking and discovering innovations in power generation.
Conference details at: https://www.etd-consulting.com/event/mima-4-conference/
Preamble
Scanning Force Microscope (SFM) has been developed for the on-site inspection of industrial components to detect and map early stage (nano or micro level) creep, fatigue or corrosion type damage. It is a portable version of the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) which has been usually used for research purposes. ETD is proud to have it developed for the on-site inspection of industrial plant components where the damage may be too small to resolve by the traditional NDE techniques, for example, the early stage creep cavitation damage in ASME P91 or P92 steels.
GT Blade Inspection
In a recent exploratory phase project ETD discovered and demonstrated the SFM’s in-lab. use for the inspection of Gas Turbine blade pieces to study the gamma prime shape and size development with time thus enabling SFM use for the on-site inspection of GT blades non-destructively.
We are now planning to take this development to the next phase of optimising the SFM image resolution parameters in the lab. tests on full size GT blades followed by on-site inspection of the GT blades and develop relationship parameters between the coarsening of the gamma prime precipitates, their shape and blade condition/ safe remaining life.
Benefits
This 6-month duration investigation should be of huge benefit to the GT blade manufacturers, plant owners/ operators and service providers who will have access to a new and innovative technology and tool that helps to non-destructively examine and assess the condition/ life of GT blades saving them significant costs.
Group Sponsored Project and Cost
Please note that this proposal has been launched as a Group Sponsored Project which means that a number of sponsors will share the cost each contributing a small cost but getting the full results. The actual cost will depend on the number of sponsors that we can obtain but could be between £5,000 to £10,000 GB pounds for each sponsor.
Please click here to see the proposal details.
For more information please write to Dr A Shibli at: ashibli@etd-consulting.com
Please let us know if you would like to contribute an old GT blade for investigation either in the lab or at the site.
The time has come for our End of the year 2024 “Technical Newsletter”
Thank you to everyone who has been involved with us this year and we’re certainly looking forward to building on from what we have learned and achieved together thus far.
For any enquiries please email enquiries@etd-consulting.com
ETD together with its collaborators from Japan (KMTL, CRIEPI) and Singapore (CETIM-Matcor) have now put together their knowledge, expertise and over a century of combined experience to offer full power and process plant inspection (using both conventional and recently developed, by the Group, innovative inspection techniques) and life assessment of the critical components of ageing plants.
This new group ‘JUS’ is aiming to provide its unique services internationally.
For more details please click here.
We are pleased to provide below ETD’ three presentations made last week (8-10 October 2024) at the MPA Seminar held in Stuttgart, Germany. Please click on the link below to access these presentations:
These cover the following topics:
Hong-Wei Wang, Ahmed Shibli, European Technology Development (ETD), Leatherhead, Surrey, UK
Ahmed Shibli, Rumman Syed, European Technology Development (ETD), Leatherhead, Surrey, UK
Ahmed Shibli, European Technology Development (ETD), Leatherhead, Surrey, UK
Power & Process Plant full Inspection, Boat Sampling and Condition/ Life Assessment
Dr Ahmed Shibli, Director
European Technology Development Ltd. (ETD), Leatherhead, Surrey, UK
Dr David Robertson, Plant Integrity Lead
European Technology Development Ltd. (ETD), Leatherhead, Surrey, UK
ETD is a UK based consulting company providing complete plant inspection and condition/ life assessment services to clients worldwide. In addition to the on-site plant services ETD has developed a number of guidelines for plant inspection, life assessment, boiler/HRSG and turbine preservation, flexible operation of fossil power plants, boiler tube failure management, P91 and P92 issues etc. ETD has also developed procedures and software such as CRACKFIT for crack assessment in industrial components, especially in boilers and turbines; BLAS (boiler life assessment software) and more.
ETD and its associates, such as KMTL and CRIEPI in Japan, have developed tools and procedures for creep testing of miniature and ultra miniature tensile specimen testing, and innovative portable electrical discharge ‘boat sampling’ equipment for quantitative life assessment of critical components in high temp. plant – non-destructively.
In this Webinar we will discuss issues involved in high temperature plant inspection, monitoring and life assessment, including some of the unique innovative techniques that we have developed through years of R&D in collaboration with our international industrial partners.
Some of the above issues will be elaborated in this webinar.
If you wish to join this webinar then please email enquiries@etd-consulting.com with your name, organisation and place/ country. The MS Teams link will then be sent to you a few days prior to Webinar start date
Note: Please note that you don’t need to have the Teams App on your computer, simply click on the link that we will email to you and join the Webinar.
ETD has just successfully completed an RCM project for a European plant owner of two under-construction combined power and desalination plants in the Middle East.
For more information on this please click the link below.
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ETD has successfully performed, for a European utility, audits of wind turbine towers and blades manufacturing in a number of factories in China. Similar audit has been carried out in Egypt.
For more information on this please click the link below.
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This latest news article elaborates on how we can help you understand the decarbonisation of your fossil power plants and the new sources of low or no carbon fuels.
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ETD is launching a new 6-month duration multi-client Group Sponsored Project (GSP). This involves the use of ETD’s state of the art portable Scanning Force Microscope (SFM) for the on-site inspection of Gas Turbine blades for their gamma prime particle coarsening and blade condition assessment. After some preliminary successful work in the laboratory on cut out pieces from a GT blade, we are encouraged to take this development to the next phase of optimising the etching, SFM image resolution parameters and developing some basic relationship parameters between the coarsening of the gamma prime precipitates and the blade condition.
This investigation should be of huge benefit to the GT blade manufacturers, plant owners and operators to have access to a new and innovative technology and tool that helps to non-destructively examine and assess the condition and life of GT blades saving significant costs.
ETD has a global reputation for providing expert Power and Process Plant Inspection, Integrity and Asset Management/ Assessment Services for quarter of a century. We offer expert technical support in a broad range of areas and can provide competitive proposals for services (both Consulting and NDT) for your 2023/24 Plant outages.
A special issue of the journal ‘Materials at High Temperature’ has been published based on the proceedings of the ETD’s MIMA-2 Int. Conference held on 11-13 October 2022. The conference brought together researchers, scientists, and industry experts from around the world to discuss the latest advancements and challenges in the field of materials at high temperatures. The special issue of the journal includes papers presented at the conference, covering a wide range of topics such as Plant life assessment, Normalising temperature selection for creep performance, Residual life assessment of critical piping systems, and Plant Inspection and maintenance. The issue serves as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners interested in the field.
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ETD’s Innovative Tools & Methodologies for Power, Process, Oil & Gas Plant Complete Inspection, Monitoring & Assessment – Read the latest Newsletter here
Evaluation of Risk Based Maintenance Procedures and Best Practice Guidelines for Power Industry
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After the success of the first MIMA conference (MIMA-1) in October 2020, this is the 2nd in this unique MIMA series of International Conferences (MIMA-2) where practising industry engineers and international experts from around the world will be presenting. Like MIMA-1 we have again received some excellent presentations on the development of new high temperature steels (such as MARBN and ASME P91, P92), experience with the old and development of new and innovative inspection and monitoring techniques and related issues, plant flexibility/creep-fatigue damage, component damage/ cracking, RBI, plant design and condition/ life assessment challenges. Usually majority of the presentations in ETD’s conferences are ‘from industry for industry’ with new developments described by the research community.
