With our dedicated testing facilities, we carry out a wide range of turbocharger tests, including qualification, performance, endurance, NVH and specific testing.

Our Turbocharger Testing Expertise

Our teams carry out test campaigns to assess turbocharger performance, behaviour and durability under a wide range of operating conditions.

Qualification Testing

  • Shaft motion
  • Compressor and turbine wheel burst testing
  • Bearing system
  • Dynamic testing: LCF

Performance Testing

  • Our facilities enable detailed characterization of turbine and compressor performance:
  • Turbine / compressor mapping
  • SAE / adiabatic conditions
  • Comparative design studies
  • Extended turbine mapping (Closed Loop Unit and Inlet Guide Vane)
  • Decomposed turbine mapping for Twin Scroll applications
  • …

Endurance Testing

We perform a range of tests to assess the durability of turbochargers and their components:

  • Thermal shock
  • Poly-cycle testing
  • WG / VNT mechanism seizure
  • …

Noise and Vibration Testing

Our facilities also enable us to analyse the vibration and acoustic behaviour of turbochargers:

  • Vibration monitoring and failure detection
  • Vibro-acoustic mapping
  • Imbalance analysis
  • …

Specific Turbocharger Testing

In addition to qualification, performance and endurance testing, our teams carry out test campaigns tailored to the specific requirements of each project:

  • Remanufactured turbocharger validation
  • Heat Soak Back testing
  • Dynamic testing: HCF
  • Turbine wheel creep testing
  • Oil consumption / bearing or component wear
  • Thermal stabilization testing (drift)

Testing for Other Applications

Our expertise and testing facilities can also be used for the development and characterization of other components and systems:

  • Exhaust systems: manifold, exhaust line and muffler
  • Valves: exhaust, EGR, etc.
  • After-treatment systems: catalyst, SCR
  • Heat exchangers
  • Turbo pumps for aerospace applications
  • APU

Hybrid Applications

Our facilities also support the development and testing of technologies related to hybridization and electrification:

  • E-charger
  • E-compound
  • Electric generators
  • Exhaust heat recovery

Our Turbocharger Test Benches

CRITT M2A operates dedicated facilities for turbocharger testing and characterization under a wide range of operating conditions.

5 Turbocharger Test Benches

  • Power: from 200 kW to 800 kW
  • Flow rate: from 0.25 kg/s to 1 kg/s
  • Temperature: from 25°C to 1,200°C

Additional Testing Equipment

  • Battery simulators up to 500 kW / 1,200 V / 1,200 A
  • Pulsation unit for reproducing exhaust valve pulsations
  • Switch units for endurance testing, enabling up to 4 specimens to be tested simultaneously
  • Balancing machine

Do You Have a Turbocharger Testing Project?

Performance, qualification and endurance testing, NVH analysis or specific testing: our teams support you in defining and carrying out a test campaign tailored to your requirements.
Contact our team to discuss your turbocharger testing project.