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Couplant Selection Chart

All Echo Ultrasonics® couplants have been formulated with operator safety and environmental regulations as a priority.

Download chart as pdf here

 

  Couplant Key Benefits Viscosity Temperature
Range
Corrosion
Characteristic

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SuperSoniX™

  • Highest performance gel couplant
  • Expanded Ambient Temperature
  • Gel couplant, not stringy or sticky
  • Gel viscosity remains in place for overhead and vertical surfaces
  • Broad operating range
  • Slow drying
  • Water-soluble
  • Improved stability against corrosion salts
Medium -10 to 220°F
-23° to 104°C
Very good

UltraSoniX™

  • High performance
  • Glycerin-free, in accordance with FAA Advisory Circular AC 25-29
  • Overhead/vertical application (medium and high viscosity)
  • Slow drying
  • Fast wetting
  • No nitrates, nitrites, glycol ethers or formaldehyde
  • Water soluble, acrylic polymer, lower residue than most couplants
High
Medium
10° to 220°F
-12° to 104°C
Very good
Meets ASTM F519

EchoPure™

  • Couplant of choice for Phased Array Manual UT Inspection (PAMUT). Eliminates dry spots under the wedge and resulting element drop out. Improves defect reproducibility.
  • Complies with P91 steel inspection requirement for a water-free couplant.
  • Broadest temperature range for water-soluble couplants
  • No couplant build up which can result in false indications.
  • Very slow drying and salt stable
  • Overhead / vertical application
  • Excellent transducer lubrication
High
Medium
Low
Fluid
-60° to 350°F
-51° to 176°C
Very good
Meets ASTM F519

SoniX™

  • Salt stable (boiler and corrosion salts, etc.)
  • Strong lubricious coupling film
  • Fast Wetting
  • No nitrates, nitrites, glycol ethers or formaldehyde
  • Glycerin-free
  • Water soluble, cellulose based
High
viscosity fluid
40,000 cps
18° to 120°F
-8° to 50°C
Very good
Meets ASTM F519

Forever Wedge

  • High viscosity fluid for phased array and angle beam wedge attachment and for coupling delay lines
  • Won’t dry, run, leach or dissolve with water or couplants
  • Eliminates the need to replace wedge couplant during inspections
Fluid -50° to 700°F
-45° to 371°C
N/A

Glycerin

  • GE approved for the inspection of CFM56-7B engine fan blades in accordance with service buletin SB72-1033
  • Packaged from UPS Glycerin, 99+%
  • Will not harden on equipment
  • Pumpable fluid
  • Boiling point 555°F / 290°C
  • Compatible with most plastics
Low viscosity
fluid
65° to 500°F
18° to 260°C

Can be corrosive to carbon steel and aluminum. No corrosion effects in most plastics, fiberglass, or composites.

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EchoMix®
Powder Single

  • ONE PART powder
  • Easily mixed in water
  • Good wetting
  • Salt resistant
  • No formaldehyde
  • Compact for shipping and storage
  • Water soluble
  • Operating range can be extended with propylene glycol antifreeze
Medium gel
23,000 cps
Adjustable
low to high
32° to 120°F
0° to 50°C
Mild, short term
ferrous corrosion inhibition

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Echo Shear Wave

  • Transmit normal incidence shear wave
  • Water soluble
  • Easily removed with water wash
  • Low toxicity, non-irritating
High viscosity paste 40 to 90°F
4° to 32°C
 

Echo Z+

  • High acoustic impedance
  • Decreases surface noise
  • Ideal for rough surfaces and concrete
  • Strong ferrous corrosion inhibition
Medium viscosity paste or Fluid 0 to 200°F
-18° to 93°C
Strong ferrous corrosion inhibition

Echo 8ZH

  • For flow metering and long term monitoring at elevated temperatures
  • Enhanced acoustic impedance
  • Reduces acoustic noise from rough surface
Paste Short term:
-45 to 750°F
Long term:
-45 to 400°F
Strong ferrous corrosion inhibition
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VersaSonic®

  • Broad operating range – subzero to 700°F
  • Best performing UT couplant between 300 and 750°F
  • Fast Response, no wait time
  • Low smoke / Low toxicity / No char residue
  • Does not contain peanut oil
Gel and
paste
-10° to 700°F
-23° to 371°C
Best long-term corrosion protection. Meets ASTM F519

HiTempco

  • Less smoke than VersaSonic
  • No residue or varnish
  • Fast response, no wait time
  • Excellent corrosion inhibition
  • Non-toxic, non-irritating
Paste -50° to 775°F
-45° to 412°C
Excellent corrosion inhibition

EchoTherm™

  • Most economical ultra-high temperature couplant for use above 700°F and in ports.
  • EchoTherm contains a plastic polymer which melts and begins to smoke at 750°F
  • Leaves plastic residue (char)
Paste 200° to 1000°F
93° to 538°C
N/A

EchoTherm Extreme™

  • Highest performance extreme temperature couplant
  • Fast Response, no wait time
  • No plastic polymer
  • No plastic char residue
  • Broadest operating range
  • Low smoke
Paste

-40° to 1250°F
-40 to 675°C

Meets ASTM F519

Echo 700

  • Replaces Sono 900 (discontinued)
Paste

600° to 700°F
316 to 371°C

 

Echo 760

  • Replaces Sono 950 (discontinued)
Paste

600° to 760°F
316 to 404°C

 

Echo 775

  • Replaces Sono 1100 (discontinued)
Paste

700° to 775°F
371 to 413°C

 
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EchoFLOW

  • Easily pumped in extreme cold environment
  • Environmentally safe, approved for use on the Alaskan Tundra
  • Water-soluble.
Fluid

-40° to 150°F
-40 to 65°C

N/A

Echo 3HT

  • Water-soluble. No need to remove
  • Least expensive intermediate temperature fluid
Fluid

-30° to 350°F
-34 to 177°C

 

Echo 6 HT™

  • Low-cost silicone-based fluid
  • Replacement for peanut, canola and mineral oils
  • Low in viscosity, which is maintained over a broad operating range.
  • No sticky film, varnish or smoke
  • Less subject to under insulation cracking (which leads to a lower auto-ignition temperature)
Fluid -40° to 675°F
-40° to 357°C
Excellent

Echo 8 HT™

  • Broadest operating range
  • Three Viscosities: thin to very thick liquid for AUT and MUT
  • Minimal smoke
  • Excellent lubricant
  • Low toxicity / Non-irritating
  • Auto Ignition is 850°F/454°C
Fluid -50° to 800°F
-45° to 425°C
Excellent

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