PIGWAVES

In-Line Service For Internal Inspection Of Unpiggable Buried Oil Pipelines Using Long Range Ultrasound Guided Waves In Fifty Metre Segments

 Coordinatore TWI LIMITED 

 Organization address address: Granta Park, Great Abington
city: CAMBRIDGE
postcode: CB21 6AL

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Daniel
Cognome: Moss
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1223 899 440

 Nazionalità Coordinatore United Kingdom [UK]
 Totale costo 1˙046˙983 €
 EC contributo 809˙813 €
 Programma FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
 Code Call FP7-SME-2012
 Funding Scheme BSG-SME
 Anno di inizio 2013
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2013-04-01   -   2015-03-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    TWI LIMITED

 Organization address address: Granta Park, Great Abington
city: CAMBRIDGE
postcode: CB21 6AL

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Daniel
Cognome: Moss
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1223 899 440

UK (CAMBRIDGE) coordinator 70˙355.57
2    DRAXIS ENVIRONMENTAL S.A.

 Organization address address: MITROPOLEOS STREET 63
city: THESSALONIKI
postcode: 54623

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Ioanna
Cognome: Pavlou
Email: send email
Telefono: 302310000000
Fax: 302310000000

EL (THESSALONIKI) participant 210˙825.10
3    ASSIST SOFTWARE SRL

 Organization address address: STRADA TIPOGRAFIEI 1
city: SUCEAVA
postcode: 720043

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Gheorghe
Cognome: David
Email: send email
Telefono: 40726545587
Fax: 40230520303

RO (SUCEAVA) participant 199˙761.50
4    Stirling Dynamics Ltd

 Organization address address: REGENT STREET 26 CLIFTON
city: Bristol
postcode: BS8 4HG

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Simon
Cognome: Waring
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1179 152 627
Fax: +44 1179 238 636

UK (Bristol) participant 142˙647.78
5    TANGENT TECHNOLOGIES LTD

 Organization address address: HIGH STREET 46-48A
city: BURNHAM BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
postcode: SL1 7JP

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Carol
Cognome: Clegg
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1628 660400

UK (BURNHAM BUCKINGHAMSHIRE) participant 97˙088.45
6    INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE LIMITED - INNOTECUK

 Organization address address: HILDERSHAM ROAD NORTH WING THE OLD LIVERY
city: CAMBRIDGE
postcode: CB21 6DR

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Harvinder
Cognome: Johal
Email: send email
Telefono: 442033000000

UK (CAMBRIDGE) participant 31˙660.80
7    REPSOL SA

 Organization address address: CALLE MENDEZ ALVARO 44
city: MADRID
postcode: 28045

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Ramón
Cognome: Peña
Email: send email
Telefono: 34917538216
Fax: 34913488613

ES (MADRID) participant 29˙182.80
8    AINOOUCHAOU PLIROFORIKI AE

 Organization address address: L KIPHISIAS 116 KAI DAVAKI 1
city: ATHINA
postcode: 11526

contact info
Titolo: Mrs.
Nome: Xenia
Cognome: Bania
Email: send email
Telefono: 302106000000
Fax: 302106000000

EL (ATHINA) participant 28˙291.00

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travel    inspection    ultrasound    data    faster    robots    pigs    accurately    metre    corrosion    sensors    ultrasonic    pipes    circumferential    lrug    pipe    collar   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'This proposal will aim to develop the enabling technology that will enable existing pipe crawling robots (pigs) to provide internal inspection of pipe walls using long range ultrasound guided waves (LRUG) deployed in pipe segments of about fifty metre length.

The aim is to perform total volume inspection far more rapidly, accurately and cheaply than is presently achieved with magnetic and ultrasonic pigs by developing a circumferential collar of LRUG sensors and novel time reversal focussing to produce a map of the circumferential and axial pipe corrosion and cracks. As LRUG sensors detect all significant corrosion in oil and gas pipelines within typically 50 metre of the sensors in a few milliseconds, long lengths of pipe can be scanned very rapidly with sample wave echo patterns obtained only every 50 metres thereby data storage requirements will be orders of magnitude less than present inspection methods. The speed of travel through the pipe could thus be faster than pigs that gather data with ultrasonic compression probes.

To test the technology developed by the project, the LRUG collar will be deployed initially by a mechanism to pull the collar through a pipe full of water at different constant and also varying speeds.

A prototype robot will be developed that is intrinsically safe for operation in explosive environments and that is lightweight (neutrally buoyant) to investigate how best to deploy the LRUG technology in a real pipeline with faster travel and cheaper robots.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Underground pipes are one of the most efficient ways to move fluids long distances, but they are difficult to inspect. Robotic pigs carrying advanced ultrasound technology will soon be able to quickly and accurately assess pipes from within.

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