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Flir leak detection
New Product

FLIR ADGiLE Automated Methane Monitoring Solution

July 6, 2024

FLIR, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, unveiled ADGiLE™, a fixed-mounted methane monitoring solution.


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Inficon leak detection
New Product

INFICON Helium Leak Detection

July 4, 2024

To enhance the UL family of leak testers, INFICON has therefore launched the three intelligent additions SMART-Spray, I·BOOST and SPRAY-Check.


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Electric Vehicles

Leak-Detection Standards for Electric Vehicles Long Overdue

Quality control lags behind rapid growth of EV sales in North America.
Daniel Wetzig, PhD
October 3, 2022

Rapid growth in electric vehicle sales along with an increasing interest in fuel-cell-electric powertrain systems presents the auto industry with serious and largely unanticipated quality-control issues.


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NDT | Leak Testing

E-Mobility Gives Automakers a Host of Leak Detection Challenges

EV battery cells, battery packs, electric motors and other systems modified for EV applications all require leak testing to assure both quality and safety.
Thomas Parker
Thomas Parker
June 9, 2021
The rapid and unexpected growth in the production of alternative drive systems is presenting automakers and their suppliers with a host of leak-detection challenges to ensure vehicle safety and quality.
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Standardized Leak Testing for Lithium-Ion Battery Cells

It is Essential for Automakers.
Thomas Parker
Thomas Parker
Daniel Wetzig, PhD
January 6, 2021

Automakers in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region and the United States are struggling with performance and safety issues associated with electric and hybrid-electric cars.


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helium canisters
NDT Leak Testing

Supply, Demand and Cost: Don’t Let That Helium Just Drift Away at the End of a Leak Test

How can you make the most of this increasingly precious commodity for your critical quality assurance needs?
Jeff McBee Gordon Splete
August 5, 2020

Helium is in short supply and its cost is rising. Global sources may even run dry by the end of the century. And yet, it remains the dominant choice for trace-gas-based leak-testing on the production line. How can you make the most of this increasingly precious commodity for your critical quality assurance needs?


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NDT Leak Testing

Leak Testing Meets New Energy Storage Needs

Leak tightness is a major criterion for stable performance of a battery pack over the expected lifetime of an electrical vehicle.
Chuck Davidson Rudi Konwitschny
August 5, 2020

Since the early 1990s Lithium ion batteries have entered industrial markets as energy storage technology for mobile consumer electronics and battery-operated tools.


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leak test methods

How Leak Testing Works

A leak test is a procedure used to determine if an object, product, or system functions within a specified leak limit.
Jackie Vars
February 8, 2020

Leak testing is a broad term that includes a multitude of technologies. For the purposes of this article, different leak test methods will be referenced but not described in full detail. 


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NDT HEADLINE

Pfeiffer Vacuum Opens New Production Site in Romania

October 3, 2018

Pfeiffer Vacuum celebrated the opening of its new production location in Cluj, Romania.


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Figure 1. A close-up view of a leak

The Noise in the Background

Ensuring accuracy with helium leak testing.
Peter Bonyhati
October 1, 2018

From airbags to air-conditioning units and fuel rails, from anything implanted in the body to hermetically sealed enclosures for integrated circuits, there are some instances where the acceptable leak rate is so small as to be practically zero. Few air leak test methods, such as pressure decay, have the necessary detection range.


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