HRL Technology Group: What Makes Them Different

Source: Sally Wood

HRL is a leading specialist testing, engineering and innovation services company delivering a range of comprehensive and bespoke services aligned to your specific technical and commercial objectives. Their overriding purpose is to dramatically improve the reliability, efficiency, and sustainability of your assets, products, and processes to transform your business, saving you time and money, while enhancing operational performance. HRL operates across coal and gas generation, mining and resources, renewable energy, chemicals and water, manufacturing, products and retail, and transportation.

HRL specialises in high-temperature, high-pressure systems. Keeping your assets up-and-running, optimising maintenance expense and capital spend, and investigating failures. Their services include advanced on-site inspection and testing, design verification, asset life, condition and risk assessment, forensic failure investigation, materials selection, advanced materials, and ‘owners engineers’ partnerships.

HRL doesn’t just have the best experts in the business, they also have unique, high-end specialist facilities and equipment, including: • Fully-equipped NATA and ISO accredited chemical, metallurgical, and mechanical testing laboratories containing highly advanced specialist equipment • Specialised on-site asset testing equipment, including advanced NDT, multi-channel flow detection, in-situ pulverised fuel particle sizing and strain gauging

• Applied R&D pilot plant scale-up facilities

• Advanced desk-top modelling, including piping flexibility, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, combustion optimisation, and process simulation

• Digital platforms for big-data analysis and asset monitoring and optimisation, including remote combustion tuning

• Proprietary algorithms and an extensive internal database containing hundreds of years of expertise

As a Metallurgist or Engineer you will deliver a suite of services including, but not limited to;liaising closely with customers to understand and scope work requirements, preparing detailed project plans, producing cost estimates and proposals, overseeing project delivery, preparing and presenting reports to clients as required. Your technical expertise will be condition assessment of complex components and high temperature pressure equipment, providing material selection advice, conducting failure analysis, materials testing and inspection. Experience with engineering assessments, fatigue and creep life assessments, risk-based inspection and experience in the field of welding will be viewed favourably.