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    more  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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 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.