We are a valve distribution company in Houston.We often get orders from customers which require the the valves to be fugitive emission test qualified.we are looking to get few of our valves FE prototype tested.I have contacted these companies,- United valve- Yarmouth Research and technology- Southwest Research Institutethey were too expensive.Can someone please give me list of companies around Houston or anywhere in US that offer FE testing?Not sure you will find it any cheaper. I've visited both United and Yarmouth. Yarmouth pretty much does nothing else but FE testing (Matt does a couple other things but the bulk of the shop has FE setups) United is more broad in scope but they are great valve mod shop and can handle almost anything. I'm not as familiar with Southwest other than I've heard the name.I will say if you have a quote from those places you have a pretty accurate cost of the testing. Depending on what test your looking to run FE testing is pretty time consuming and expensive to set up.If your going to be doing a lot of testing your other option is to build a test rig. API 622 is currently under revision and one of the things being kicked around to be added is a method of FE testing the packing in the valve.

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