Tightness tests
The company Safirs, Ltd., has expanded its portfolio of tightness testing services including non-destructive leakage testing. Water Act no. 364/2004 Coll. [1] Article 39, section (2) (d) requires, in all establishments containing dangerous substances, the inspection of their technical condition and the tightness test.
Objects in need for tightness tests
- storage tanks, e.g. trays (metal, laminate, plastic, enamelled, etc.) of petroleum products,
- piping,
- catching emergency boats, respectively catching emergency tanks,
- waste water bins,
- cesspools for storage of liquid fertilizers and silage juices,
- home cesspools for family houses and recreational cabins (water proof or waterproofing test or cesspit test) that is required for an application for an calibration approval procedure,
- domestic and industrial sewage treatment plants,
- septic tanks,
- fuel filling stations (fuel),
- oil separators,
- oil traps,
- industrial floors,
- handling areas, etc.
The company Safirs, Ltd., provides the following methods for carrying out tightness testing of tanks, pipes, emergency crashes tanks, collecting pits, ditches, industrial floors and the like:
- integral overpressure tests of tanks (air to a maximum pressure of 50 kPa according to STN 753415),
- integral pipe overpressure tests (according to STN 753415),
- sewerage and sewerage tests (according to EN 1610 - air or water test),
- localization welding tests using vacuum chambers (according to STN 753415),
- localization welding test - capillary test PT (penetration testing according to STN 753415),
- localization vacuum testing of objects by vacuum chambers (according to STN 753415),
- sewerage and sewerage tests (according to EN 1610 - air or water test),
- water tightness tests for emergency tanks, junks, and the like (according to STN 750905).
