Testing & Characterization for the Energy Industry
From our ISO 17025-accredited laboratories, we provide a wide array of materials preparation, characterisation, testing, and analysis services. Our work spans the energy sector including nuclear, traditional energy, renewables generation, and energy storage options such as batteries, fuel cells and electrolysers.
We have extensive experience of testing materials that are used in the energy industries: power generation equipment, steels, stainless steels, superalloys, thermal barrier coatings (TBCs), resin systems, mica tapes, copper stator bars, ceramic materials, ceramic composites, and a myriad others. We perform standardised testing to support qualifications, investigations, and compliance testing.
Typical test methods include UKAS, ASTM, BS EN, and MIL-STD. We are also capable of devising and following company-specific methods that suit your requirements.
We characterize novel materials, such as new corrosion-resistant alloys, new ceramic materials, and refractories. Lucideon offers custom test program design services to support development of new materials and products.
Our experts stay at the cutting edge of developing test methods and industry standards to address products manufactured via novel techniques such as additive manufacturing of raw materials and products and Flash Sintering.
In addition to offering a variety of component testing, creep & stress rupture testing for the Nuclear industry, Lucideon boasts the world's largest high temperature water corrosion facility, offering over 10,000,000 hours of Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) testing experience in nuclear applications. The facility has thirty-two systems, each equipped with high-temperature autoclaves, precise water chemistry control, and advanced crack growth measurement systems.
Our services include:
- Physical, chemical, and mechanical characterisation
- Surface analysis and microstructural evaluation
- High temperature real time x-ray diffraction analysis
- Imaging and analysis
- High temperature material performance testing and thermal analysis
- Refractories testing and analysis
- Commercial-grade dedication testing
- Metallurgical evaluations
- Testing to ASTM or OEM specifications
- Foreign material identification / debris analysis
- Digital Image Correlation (DIC) testing
- Corrosion testing (including SCC)
- Machining & wire EDM
Case Studies
Application of Lucideon's Flash Sintering Technology
A customised materials testing project for Nuclear Transport Services (NTS), UK (Phase 1)
A customized materials testing project for Nuclear Transport Services (NTS), UK (Phase 2)
Testing of unique cladding system and its components
Investigating the performance of saggars for lithium-ion electrode materials firing
Water filters sintered in a 20% hydrogen natural gas blend