Boiler inspection
Boiler Inspection Services
Visual inspection of recovery and power boilers for pulp, paper, and power. The complete final report is in your hands in days, not months.
A BSI inspection is the walk through the unit and four things that come with it. The BSI punchlist. API inspection checklists, completed with our help. A developed boiler work scope for your next outage. And the complete final inspection report, in your hands in days.
Turnaround is the thing that matters most. The industry norm for a final boiler inspection report is months. A report that arrives months later is a record of what the unit looked like. A report that arrives in days is an outage planning document, and mills use it to set scope while the plan can still change.
The work behind it is visual boiler inspection. Our inspectors go inside the unit and look at every component of the boiler, top to bottom, from the penthouse down to the floor on a power boiler and the lower vestibules on a recovery unit. What goes in the report is the boiler condition that is there now, not what the last report said. BSI does not sell the repair, so there is no reason to find more work than is there and none to find less.
The bulk of BSI's work is in the United States, where most of the boilers in these industries run. Serving them is the focus, and it always has been. When a mill outside the country asks, BSI travels, but home is here.
Scope
Inspectors find the issues. QA/QC makes sure they get fixed correctly.
An inspection finds and documents every issue in the unit. Making sure those issues are repaired correctly is BSI QA/QC, when the mill uses it. QA/QC also works the punchlist, verifying that work reported complete actually is and reporting back to the mill many times per shift. Two different jobs, and mills often buy both.
See QA/QC servicesWhat is covered
What comes with an inspection.
- Recovery boiler inspection
- A complete visual condition assessment of the unit. Mills use the findings to run safely and to plan through to the next outage.
- Power boiler inspection
- The same discipline applied to power and cogeneration boilers. Same inspection, same findings, same report.
- The BSI punchlist
- Every finding captured in one document, with photos tied to the finding they support. The mill assigns each item to a contractor or to mill personnel and captures notes as the work progresses. It is a working document the outage runs on, not a list in an appendix.
- Daily findings meetings
- The inspector walks the mill through every finding, every day. Everyone stays aligned on what has been found, and the punchlist is current at the end of each day rather than at the end of the outage.
- Final report in days, not months
- The complete final inspection report is delivered in days. Not a preliminary summary with the real document to follow months later. The final report.
- API inspection checklists
- BSI assists the mill in completing API inspection checklists as part of every inspection.
- Boiler work scope for the next outage
- A developed work scope for the next outage, built from what this inspection found. Included, not quoted as follow-on engineering work.
- Outage inspection support
- Inspectors on site during the outage window. Findings come out as the work opens up, so repair decisions get made while the scaffolding is still up.
- Shop and site inspection of fabricated components
- Verifying that components and materials meet the customer's code requirements before they reach the unit.
How BSI works
Three steps, every unit.
Scope the unit and history
We start with the unit, its operating history, and prior inspection records. Knowing what has failed before decides where the time goes.
Inspect and document on site
Inspectors go in and work the unit section by section. Findings and photos are recorded as they are made, in the boiler, not from memory afterward.
Final report in days, not months
The punchlist, the API checklists, the next-outage work scope, and the final report come back as one package, in days. Every report is reviewed before it is released, and that review happens inside the same window.
Why BSI
What the mill is actually buying.
The most experienced visual boiler inspectors in the industry
Careers spent inside recovery and power boilers, not around them. The roots go back further than the company: the people who built BSI built boilers from the ground up and oversaw boiler work through the OEMs before BSI inspected its first unit in 1991. The report turnaround and the punchlist are what that experience produces.
A final report in days, not months
The complete final report lands while the outage plan is still being written. Mills set scope, order material, and decide where capital goes from a document they already have.
A punchlist the outage runs on
Findings do not sit in a PDF. Each item gets assigned to a contractor or to mill personnel and carries notes as the work progresses, so the mill can see what is closed and what is still open.
Planning an outage?
Tell us the unit and the window. We will tell you what the inspection would cover and when the report would be in your hands.