Automotive
Since 1994 our engineers have been producing leak detection test systems and customised solutions for the automotive industry globally.
Building on our enviable reputation and equipped with a wealth of experience, knowledge and understanding of testing traditional fuel tanks systems, we’ve progressed to manufacturing leak detection systems designed for leak testing high pressure hydrogen fuel tanks, composed of a liner encased in a carbon-fiber shell.
VES continually works closely with the automotive industry, moving away from using hydrocarbons towards hydrogen powered vehicles for a cleaner environment for future generations.
Sectors
VES understand that leak testing in different organisations, throughout different industries, must meet different requirements. Have a look at some of the areas we work in today.
Standards are often adhered to through tracer gas leak detection in automobiles. See how we work with Tier 1 supplier and OEM’s here.
VES understands the challenges the HVAC industry is facing. Drive down your implementation costs and footprint with VES machinery.
Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Tanks, LPG, Lithium batteries and modules. The world is changing and we have the testing machinery to suit.
Clean Hydrogen Energy
VES worked closely with our partners to create a new range of leak detection solutions. Systems that combines a collective wealth of VES’ knowledge, history and acquired experience in a leak test station but includes a generating high pressure test gas, gas recovery, high pressure gas storage and recycling all within safety containment systems.
The VES New Energies product range was developed to accommodate testing 900 bar hydrogen storage vessels for use in hydrogen powered vehicles, offering a 100% non-operator dependent qualitative test that is safe, efficient and eco-friendly.
With everything we do at VES, safety is our highest priority, maintaining the highest standards throughout our facilities. All pressure vessels including hydrogen tanks and fuel cells must meet regulatory standards. VES has experience in meeting all EU and global standards.
VES has developed world-class leak detection that meets all the demands of testing high pressure hydrogen fuel tanks. European (EC79) and international (R134) certifications are all met with VES’ leak test systems. Using the knowledge and experience from almost 30 years of manufacturing leak detection equipment, VES has created a unique quantitative leak test for high pressure type four tanks, a composite tank made of carbon fibre with a polymer liner (thermoplastic), 10% lighter than the type three equivalent with the metal liner. Fuel tanks that make up the large-scale hydrogen mobility storage solution.
High pressure hydrogen tanks are the new energy storage and these tanks work at extremely high pressures and high volumes. Leak testing them comes with some unique challenges that can be broken down into three different areas:
The potential energy can have catastrophic implications on the surrounding areas. Leak testing these category IV tanks creates great safety challenges for the industry moving forward.
With this high pressure and high-volume combination manufacturers are seeing increased costs in testing gases.
The gas composition changes over the course of the leak test with moisture and temperature changing dramatically under compression and venting.
