Design and Development of a Scanning System for Monitoring Corrosion Under Pipe Supports

  Kiran Durga Kumar M,  M Pavan Kalyan ,  Charishma

Corrosion under pipe supports is a serious challenge faced by the oil and gas industry now a days because of its inaccessibility to inspect. This is due to the presence of the sacrificial pad which is welded to the support location to mitigate the pinhole type and stress corrosion at the pipe supports. This paper aims for Designing and developing of a scanner for monitoring corrosion under pipe supports. Ultrasonic testing in Non –Destructive Evaluation is used for detecting the defects in pipe. Designing part of the scanner is done using solid works. Because of access limitations to the pipe support region in actual field testing, the transducer was always placed at a fixed circumferential position and moved axially along the length of the pipe. The defect position along the circumference was ascertained from the time of flight while the defect size was estimated using the amplitude data obtained.

Keywords- Designing of scanner using solid works, Non-Destructive Evaluation, Ultrasonic Testing.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1504193
Page Number(s) - 1117-1120
Pubished in - Volume 3 | Issue 4 | December 2015
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Kiran Durga Kumar M,  M Pavan Kalyan ,  Charishma,   "Design and Development of a Scanning System for Monitoring Corrosion Under Pipe Supports", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.3, Issue 4, pp.1117-1120, December 2015, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1504193.pdf