This work presents a data driven approach for pipe leaks classification, validated on a steel carbon pipe section conditioned with leaks of different sizes and locations in order to emulate abnormal conditions. The tested structure was instrumented with piezoelectric devices attached at different locations over the surface, in order to induce guided waves and to record its behaviour along the s...

Pulsed Eddy Current (PEC) sensing is used for Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) of the structural integrity of metallic structures in the aircraft, railway, oil and gas sectors. Urban water utilities also have extensive large ferromagnetic structures in the form of critical pressure pipe systems made of grey cast iron, ductile cast iron and mild steel. The associated material properties render N...

Buried pipeline systems are commonly used to transport water, sewage, oil, natural gas and other materials. In the conterminous United States, there are about 77,109 km (47,924 miles) of crude oil pipelines, 85,461 km (53,114 miles) of refined oil pipelines and 67,898 km (42,199 miles) of natural gas pipelines (FEMA, 1991). The total length of water and sewage pipelines is not readily available...

Laser-Gas Metal Arc (GMA) hybrid welding is fast making the transition from laboratory to production, in industries as diverse as shipbuilding to automobile manufacture. For the past 3 years, our team has striven to both develop a hybrid welding process for steel pipe, and to specify, build, and install a hybrid pipe welding system in a General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard. In March 2007, the syste...

Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) is a growing problem in the oil and gas industry that results in huge financial losses each year worldwide. Reservoir souring, equipment and pipeline failures due to MIC pitting attacks are of great concerns in field operations. A group of bacteria known as sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) are often the culprits. Currently, the basic understanding of ...

Metallic miniature products have been highlighted as mini-/micro-structural components working as a precise mechanism, in dispensing systems, and in medical operations. In particular, the essential mechanical parts such as pipes and nozzles have strength and hardness sufficient for ejecting viscous liquids, solders, and particles. A low-temperature plasma nitriding process was proposed as a sur...

Abstract Tubular furnaces of hazardous production facilities are unique technical devices, and serve for open fire heating various process media to relatively high temperatures. Some the furnaces, such as pyrolysis hydrogen conversions also reactors that decompose hydrocarbon feedstock into separate components. The most important element structure is a tubular coil. effect temperatures working ...

High-temperature pressure pipelines are extensively used in petrochemical plant and power stations. Severe pits or wall loss defects can be internally produced after a certain period of time due to media corrosion and cavitation erosion. These defects finally lead to leakage of the pipes. In order to search for a good non-destructive method for these defects, a large pipe testing installation w...