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Home to state of the art testing facilities manned by a highly motivated and competent R & D testing team, PVL’s most up-to-date Testing and Validation regime ensures that its esteemed customers get perfect products.

These facilities allow designers to test prototypes in demanding conditions and benchmark competitors' products with the objective of providing best design.

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As part of PVL’s Performance Test framework, the Component Calorimeter for Condenser Thermal Performance testing and Radiator, Heater Core and Oil Cooler Test rigs are an important part of the Testing Laboratory. Other aspects of Performance Testing include the use of Climatic Wind Tunnel, Evaporator Component Calorimeter, System Calorimeter, Oil Cooler Test Bench, Compressor Test Bench and Radiator / Heater Thermal Performance Test Bench.

To ensure Durability Standards in its products, PVL deploys Electro Dynamic Vibration Shaker, Climatic Chamber, Cold Chamber, Hot Chamber 1 and 2, Salt Spray Test, Cass Test, Burst Test Machine and Pressure Pulsation Equipment.The company’s Metallurgy Lab equipped with Polishing Machine, Ultrasonic Cleaning Water bath, Hot Mounting Machine, Electronic Digital Balance, Muffle Furnace, Precision Balance, Microscope and Millipore test setup, enhances its R&D Test Capability.

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Its Testing & Analysis Capabilities include EPMA testing, Failure analysis, Heat Treatment Analysis Millipore test facility, Material benchmarking, Quality inspection, Brazeability testing and Corrosion potential/potentiostat.

Pranav Vikas constantly updates and enhances its testing facilities to meet ever increasing levels of performance and durability test specifications.

  • EPMA testing
  • Failure analysis
  • Heat Treatment Analysis [PVL]
  • Millipore test facility
  • Material benchmarking
  • Quality inspection
  • Brazeability testing
  • Corrosion potential/potentiostat

Testing & Analysis Capabilities

  • EPMA testing

    [third party]; Element (Zn, Si, Al, Cu etc.) Diffusion Analysis [PVL]

  • Failure analysis

    [PVL](i. corrosion inspection ii. Field failure/ warranty issues iii. Part rejection analysis iv. Ultrasonic specimen cleaning v. SEM-EDAX [third party])

  • Heat Treatment Analysis [PVL]

    [PVL](i. material inspection, ii. Heat treatment iii. Temperature measurements iv. Analysis)

  • Millipore test facility

    contamination wt. measurement [PVL]

  • Material benchmarking

    (i. tensile testing [third party] ii. Dimension check [PVL] iii. Composition analysis [third party] iv. Coating/cladding inspection [PVL] v. Material wt. measurement for small parts [PVL])

  • Quality inspection

    (i. critical dimension conformity check: radius, thickness, louver angle etc. [PVL], ii. Coating / clad thickness check [PVL], iii. Composition measurement [third party] iv. Mechanical property testing [third party] v. Material quality inspections (inclusion, porosity, grain size etc. [PVL])

  • Brazeability testing

    (i. Overall brazing inspection [PVL], ii. Specific joint microstructural analysis [PVL]

  • Corrosion potential/potentiostat

    For measuring the relative corrosion potential for all the aluminum parts.