Pipeline Integrity assessment
Pipeline Integrity assessment
Except for providing pigging
equipment and service, we can design the pigging scheme based on your own
specific pipeline situation.
At PPL we have a
dedicated team of engineers who have many years on-site experience, and
extensive pig manufacturer based on Europe and North America, established
integrated pig design/production system. Our experts team can issue complete
pigging solutions followed customs’ actual state of the pipeline, and offer
foam pig, bi-di plate pig and Waxing pig.
Running the geometry inspection
vehicle can help you accurately grasp the deformation occurred during the
construction of the pipeline, accurately measure and mark pipe fittings such as
pipeline valve, tee, bends, high-resolution geometry inspection vehicle is
suitable for your requirement for higher detection accuracy and confidence.
3.measure bend radius and angle of the pipeline
Verify that magnetic flux leakage testing and/or ultrasonic testing are possible。
Calipper geometric vehcle is composed of deformation detection arm, deformation detection sensor odometer wheel, electronic bay, cup, anti-collision head, transmitter and skeleton, etc.
During the deformation detection, the specific mileage of the geometric deformation of the pipe is recorded by the odometer wheel, and the direction of the deformation is obtained by the gyro built-in the inspection vehicle.
Normally, the contact arm will be evenly distributed on the inner wall of the pipeline. When the pipe inner-diameter changes, some contact arms of channels will be compressed or stretched, compression or tension will drive 4 pole magnets to rotate within the detection arm, which will convert the compressed or stretched signal to the corresponding magnetic field signal, and then transfer the magnetic field signal into voltage signal by hall sensor, which will be recorded in the electronic board. After the analysis of the abnormal data detected, coupled with debugging data before lauching, the deformation of the pipeline be confimed.
preliminary report of geometric inspection
On-site provided, including:
Ovalities ≥5%OD
bend
the
main pipe fitting
cathodic
protection point
Minimum inner diameter of bend section and straight section
final
report of geometric inspection
description
of inspection process
data
evaluation method
severe feature list—list the feature that exceed the
predict threshold
pipeline manual—list all the features detected
and their position information, including girth welds, bends, pipe fittings,
various geometric deformations, cathodic protection points
calibration
curve
velocity
plot
PipeImage software report
MagneScan
Magnetic flux leakage inspection vehicle covers 3-56in full-size pipeline
Defects that can be inspected
using Magnetic flux leakage inspection vehicle(corrosion, metal object, weld
defect, dent)
TranScan(circumference- Magnetic flux
leakage- TranScan)
1、Applicable primarily to axial metal loss defect
2、Secondly can also detect seam weld crack
characteristic:
it can be used in extremely
severe operating conditions
it is widely used in various
types of pipelines, such as gas flow, liquid flow, land and offshore pipilne.
covering 3-56”pipeline diameter
detect low and subcritical
metal loss
More than 20 years of inspection
history, the global detection of about 150000km pipelines.
have the most comprehensive
and extensive defect measurement model.
PipeImage software
applied technology:
Magnetic flux leakage technique(axial magnetic field)
set up technical standards for
metal loss detection technology
80% market share
advantage:
Accurate
monitoring of corrosion
Key
input to the pipeline integrity program
Apply
flexibility (speed, pressure, mapping)
The
optimal choice of metal loss detection
Inspection
capability of Magnetic flux leakage inspection vehicle
ID/OD
metal loss, including
uniform corrosion, pit, gouge, mechanical damage, metal loss near weld, metal
loss associated with dent, Metal loss under sleeve, metal loss under patch,
metal loss within the field wrap boundaries of girth weld etc.
Dents:
including pure dent, dent associated with weld, dent associated with metal loss
etc.
MFG
wall
thickness change
girth
weld abnormal
casing
eccentric
patch
close
or touch metal object/ferro magnetic material
girth
weld, spiral weld, seam weld
valve,
tee, offtake etc pipeline equipment and fitting
Positioning
of the above features
Magnetic flux leakage inspection
preliminary report
inspection
data quality
Total
number and distribution of metal loss feature
peak depth of metal loss feature>80%WT
1.3 metal loss feature
Other
pipeline abnormity that required immediate attention
Magnetic
flux leakage inspection final report
defect
summary
inspection sheet(15
most serious feature)
pressure
sentenced plot
defect
statistic law
list
of severe metal loss feature
Classification
feature list(girth weld abnormity, external metal, dent, casing eccentric, NWT
pipeline
list
UT/Ultrasonic inspection:
Pipeline inner-inspection-UltraScan
wm Ultrasonic inspection
Ultrasonic wall thickness inspection
1、Suitable for metal loss
detection-pipeline I/O corrosion
2、second, it can also detect interlayer defects
3、Only applicable to oil or liquid pipeline inspection
4、Accuracy up to 0.4mm
Electromagnetic ultrasonic can
be used to detect cracks in gas pipelines without coupling agent
Compared with traditional
technology, it has the advantages of high precision, no need for coupling agent,
non-contact for high temperature detection and easy to excite various
ultrasonic waveforms
In the alternating magnetic
field the metal conductor, the internal of which will produce eddy current, at
the same time due to any effect of lorentz force exposured in the magnetic field of the current, and the metal medium will generate stress
wave under the action of alternating stress, stress wave within the scope of
the ultrasonic frequency is the ultrasound.
ILI data analysis
RUNCOM? - Compared with corrosion data and signal, the corrosion process is
established and predicted on this basis
FFP – Safety evaluation based on
corrosion rate analysis
Dent effect assessment
Integrity engineering
Risk –Divide the hazardous area of the
pipeline according to the corrosion mechanism
QRA – Quantitative risk analysis helps
clients better manage
Direct assessment
ECDA, ICDA – Evaluate the internal/external threats of the pipeline and form the
risk distribution of the pipeline
Survey and consultation on fatigue
damage
Crack management
SCC-Stress corrosion cracking sensitivity
test
SCC -Monitor
Crack safety assessment report
Runcom introduction
——Facilitate more accurate and
cost-effective corrosion management
RUNCOM is a software developed by GE PII to run and compare the
inspection data of the same pipeline for multiple times, which can obtain
accurate corrosion growth rate.
Accurately align the weld in
two sets of data sets (any metal loss internal inspection data and data of
other internal inspection service providers) (when comparing the PII internal inspection
signal with signal of other ILI providers, the data of other ILI providers is
displayed in a simplified mode)
。Since its issued in 1999, GE PII has successfully evaluated the growth
of corrosion of 32000 km pipeline by using this method (involving more than 60
operators of more than 310 pipeline) . These assessments enabled operators to
accurately identify areas of the corrosion growth, then develop the targeted
relatively cost-effective risk mitigation plan and maintenance plan.
Pipeline repair:
Pipeline repair technology
Steel epoxy sleeve repair
Glass fiber reinforcement technology
Composite reinforcement repair
technology for pipeline defects