Sectors of application
Transport industry/Specialised vehicles/Armaments industry/Construction industry/Electric vehicles/Offshore/Research & Development
Our offer
Dedicated Laboratory
- Large-Capacity Climatic Chambers at EDF Lab Les Renardières (77)
- Testing the resistance of large-scale equipment and devices under extreme climatic conditions (ice and cold down to –40 °C, heat up to 60 °C with or without UV, humidity up to saturation).
Offers
- Environmental constraint tests (climatic constraints, lightning, electromagnetic compatibility-EMC) with one of the largest climatic chambers in Europe and its various EMC chambers.
- Extensive, "tailor-made" tests of exposure to pollution or severe climates, in a natural environment or in a test chamber, or controlled lightning strikes.
- Electromagnetic compatibility tests using its two chambers (anechoic and reverberation) for both emissions and immunity.
- The laboratory is also equipped with generators enabling most immunity tests to be carried out (electrostatic discharges, shock waves, fast transients in bursts, radio frequencies, etc.).
Your challenges
- To characterise and approve equipment, an industrial product or a large-scale integrated solution in an extreme environment.
- To have a solution enabling the simulation of accelerated ageing on bulky equipment.
- To objectify the real service live and endurance of equipment in high and low temperatures or under climatic ageing constraints.
- To check the behaviour of equipment subjected to electromagnetic fields.
Our strengths
- A climatic chamber of exceptional size
- EDF Networks Lab offers a complete range of tests on a single site, covering all substation equipment and network connecting equipment from LV to 420 kV. The laboratory is accredited in accordance with the NF EN ISO/IEC 17025 (COFRAC) standard for a large part of its activity, notably in accordance with the IEC reference base, as well as network operator specifications.
- 75 highly qualified experts, engineers and test technicians who can rely on support from EDF's multidisciplinary R&D researchers, where necessary.
Use case examples
Armaments industry: Tests of the proper operation of military or public works equipment under extreme climatic constraints: proper operation in extreme temperatures, in ice, after positive and negative thermal shocks, exposure to solar radiation or humid atmospheres (90 to 95%).
Vehicle manufacturer: Testing of electric vehicles in extreme temperature conditions with respect to the safety and proper operation of batteries.