Rowan Technologies Ltd, established in 1991, provides a diverse range of services and systems related to engineering material performance, monitoring, integrity and preservation. The company’s expertise ranges from industrial plant integrity and perfomance to historic building conservation and materials selection. Our clients include many major UK and overseas companies.
We provide services and systems for corrosion risk assessment, prevention and control, and specialise in the design and supply of cathodic protection systems to inhibit the corrosion of embedded metalwork in masonry and concrete. As advisors to English Heritage, we have extensive experience in the preservation and conservation of historic structures, including some of the UK’s best known buildings.
Monitoring of Industrial Plant
We design and supply systems for monitoring both the integrity (corrosion, erosion and cracking) and thermal behaviour of industrial plant. Our scanner technology, designed to monitor and map large areas of plant such as boiler walls, has been used in power generation plant since 1999 - our first full-scale system is now set to have an operational life of more than ten years.
Services include consultancy, failure analysis and environmental monitoring and we have (or have access to) a wide range of analytical instrumentation, measurement and test facilities. We have received a number of technical awards for our research and development activities: our development projects include ceramic thermocouples, ideally suited to high temperature (greater than 1500°C) and highly corrosive environments.
Latest News
Rowan Technologies was successful in winning the tender to replace and maintain the building's cathodic protection system electronics installed at St Andrew's House in Edinburgh - the working home of the Scottish Government.
Our non-intrusive thermal scanner technology is now being utilised on a large copper smelting unit in Belgium for real-time monitoring of tube wall slag build-up and removal, and our electrical resistance corrosion probe technology is being used to monitor metal wastage in the superheater of a 660MW boiler at a large power station in the UK for a forthcoming biomass trial.
