Rapid and remote
STRESS ASSESSMENT
Stress detection without any prior references
CHALLENGE
Buried pipelines are always subjected to external forces from the world above. To ensure operational safety and structural integrity they have been designed considering a variety of scenarios that could occur. Even so, unpredictable events cannot be accounted for and can cause excess force, which results in geometrical changes such as deformations and bending. Deformations cause stress in the metal pipe walls creating vulnerable high stress concentration areas hindering structural integrity. The same occurs with unwanted bending, resulting in bending strain and loss of structural integrity due to pipe wall thinning.
SOLUTION
EMPIT provides a revolutionary solution that is able to detect stress in pipelines metal wall without any prior data. The unique footprint that is left by stress in the magnetic field can be picked up and analyzed by Current Magnetometry Inspection (CMI). We provide our clients with a complete stress overview for their pipelines caused by any and all stress sources, pointing top any locations that might be suffering from deformations and bending strains.
KEY POINTS
- Stress detection in unpiggable pipelines
- Stress detection without prior references
- No limitation to type of stress detected
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR COATING ASSESSMENT
TERRAIN LIMITATIONS
None
INACCESSIBLE AREA LIMITATIONS
None
PIPELINE DEPTH LIMITATION
7 m
STRESS TYPE LIMITATIONS
None
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.