COATING ASSESSMENT
Once the pipeline is buried, the pipeline coating is often non-assessable, and very expensive to inspect for failures. Therefore, an alternative method of coating assessment needs to be procured. Standard inspection techniques such as DCVG are often highly dependent on soil conditions. CMI enables the remote detection of coating holidays with optimized resolution and relative sizing with very limited influence from ground conditions. Consequently, CMI is not only able to locate coating defects, but also able to classify them. Our customers use Coating Assessment for pipelines with no or very limited information about the coating condition.
- Preventing external corrosion failures
- Seamless GPS-based coating inspection of the pipeline
- Inspection of the integrity of the pipeline (if required)
- Differentiation between metal loss and coating failure
PE coating holiday detected with CMI
Coating assessment with CMI System
Bitumen coating holiday detected with CMI
Coating failure detected with CMI
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR COATING ASSESSMENT
RELATIVE SIZING OF COATING DEFECTS
Possible
CATHODIC PROTECTION INSTALLED
Doesn’t matter
WALL THICKNESS | DIAMETER | MEDIUM | GRADE OF STEEL | PRESSURE | OUT OF SERVICE
No limitations
Inspection distance
Not limited
Smallest detectable fault
1 cm²
OUR SERVICES
The most powerful all-in one solution for inspection and mapping of buried pipelines.
It’s for a reason that we are amongst Germany’s Top 100 innovators. Because our mission is to overcome these inspection challenges and, together with our clients, continuously improve the safety and reliability of all pipelines.