Equipment designed to be maintained
Our engineers design with the experience of our technicians: access to seals and sensors, standard parts, diagnostics in the software. Research equipment must run for years, not just on acceptance day.
Designer and manufacturer of custom high-pressure, high-temperature equipment
About us
A design office and a workshop for your high-pressure equipment
Irian Mecatronics designs, builds and maintains high-pressure and high-temperature equipment for research and industry: test benches, reactors, injection systems, process units and machines. Our design office and technicians bring together decades of experience in designing and maintaining pressure equipment.
Design
Mechanics, instrumentation and control, designed together by a single design office.
Build
Assembly, wiring and integration in our Morlaàs workshop.
Test
Factory tests with you, under the conditions of your protocol.
Maintain
Commissioning, training, maintenance and upgrades, over the whole service life.
01 — Our history
Decades of designing and maintaining pressure equipment
Our history brings together two trades that met in the same laboratories: designing pressure equipment, and keeping it running.
The origins
A pioneering design office
José Sanchez designs and builds high-pressure analysis equipment for petroleum research, including the first PVT cells, working closely with the laboratories that use them.
1994
ACEI
ACEI maintains and upgrades pressure equipment in research laboratories and industry. Its technicians learn what makes equipment last: access to parts, clear controls, knowledge of each machine.
2018
Design and maintenance together
ACEI takes over the design office. For the first time, those who design and those who maintain work in the same company.
2022
Irian Mecatronics
The Irian group takes over the whole and creates Irian Mecatronics, which today designs research equipment for geomechanics, chemistry, deep-sea research, cryogenics, energy and materials, as well as machines and units for industrial processes under extreme conditions.
Irian Mecatronics is one of the two pillars of the Irian group, alongside its sister company Irian Technologies.
02 — What it means for you
Those who design and those who maintain work together
Technicians who know the design
The people who service your system know it from the inside, because it was designed in the same company. Diagnosis is faster and repairs are safer.
Maintain the old, design the new
We maintain and upgrade pressure equipment that is sometimes decades old, including other manufacturers’ systems, and we design new ones. Few teams in the world can do both.
03 — Our expertise
From research to industrial processes
The same command of high pressure, high temperature and measurement serves in the laboratory and in production: research benches, pilot and industrial units, metering pumps for corrosive fluids, special machines. Each field has its own page, with the problems we solve and the projects that prove it.
Reactors, autoclaves and cells
Tests in corrosive media, observation through the vessel, stirred and multi-station reactors.
Pumps and injection systems
Precision volumetric and syringe pumps, up to very high pressures.
Triaxial testing systems
Mechanical characterisation and transport measurements on rocks under stress.
Geosciences
Fluid-rock interactions, very low permeabilities, ageing, sample preparation.
Extreme environments
Deep sea, cryogenics under pressure, flammable atmospheres, microgravity.
Process pilots
From laboratory reactors to instrumented pilots for process development.
PVT cells
Full-visibility cells and complete laboratories for reservoir fluid studies.
Fluid dynamics
Flows, phase transitions, hydrates, drag-reducing agents.
04 — Our skills
Everything is designed and assembled under one roof
One design office designs the vessel, its sensors and its control system: no hand-offs between subcontractors, one contact from design to maintenance.
Mechanical design and calculation
Pressure vessels, seals, material selection, sizing to the Pressure Equipment Directive.
Instrumentation
Pressure, temperature, volume and flow sensors, selected and integrated for the target measurement.
Automation and software
Control, regulation, safety systems and data acquisition, developed in-house.
Manufacturing and assembly
Assembly, wiring and factory tests in our Morlaàs workshop.
Maintenance, retrofit and requalification
Preventive and corrective maintenance, upgrades of existing equipment, including other manufacturers’ systems, and periodic requalification of pressure equipment, in-house or with an accredited inspection body.
05 — The workshop
Built and tested in Morlaàs
Every system is assembled, wired and tested in our workshop before shipping: factory acceptance tests are run with the customer, under the conditions of their protocol.
06 — Quality and safety
Pressure equipment designed to last
ISO 9001
Our quality management system is certified.
Pressure Equipment Directive
Every system is designed to PED 2014/68/EU; ATEX or ASME on request.
Factory acceptance tests
Performance, control and safety systems checked before shipping.
07 — Worldwide
Equipment installed around the world
They trust us
A test system to design?
Tell us about your project: an engineer from our design office replies as soon as possible. A non-disclosure agreement can be signed before any technical discussion.
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