SCC DIRECT ASSESSMENT OF CARBON STEEL PIPELINE USING ADVANCED EDDY CURRENT ARRAY TECHNOLOGY A. RAUDE, M. SIROIS, M. BOUCHARD 4th International Conference on Pipeline Integrity Management Mumbai, India 29-30 January, 2018 Presented by: Anupam Kumar (on behalf of Angélique Raude, Surface Product Manager) 4 th ICEPIM & OMIC GAS 2018
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SCC DIRECT ASSESSMENT OF CARBON STEEL PIPELINE USING ADVANCED EDDY CURRENT ARRAY TECHNOLOGYA. RAUDE, M. SIROIS, M. BOUCHARD
4th International Conference on Pipeline Integrity Management
• EC flow perpendicular to the scan direction and are forced to pass around the longitudinal cracking by either diving underneath it or by going around its extremities
• EC are directly affected by the surface breaking cracking and their associated dimensions
2. TECA TECHNOLOGY (2)
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• Raw EC signal with constant characteristics
• Dedicated software tools
• Simplified probe normalization
• LO monitoring and compensation
• Permeability compensation
• Automated defect sizing
Lift-off
5.0mm deep2.5mm deep1.0mm deep
Lift-off
3mm
2mm
1mm 0mm
Phase shift of 3 indications with no LO
5mm deep defect with LO varying from 0 to 3mm
3. TECA FOR PIPELINE INTEGRITY (1)
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Carbon steel pipelines’ challenges & most advanced inspection solution
seam weld girth weld spiraled weld SCC / ERW
3. TECA FOR PIPELINE INTEGRITY (2)
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TECA performances for fatigue cracking in welds
• POD similar to MT and ACFM
• Detect both axial and transverse cracking in cap, toes and HAZ in one single pass
• Detect crack from 3 mm long by 0.5 mm deep
• Rapid - scanning speed 200 mm/sec
• Accurately size defect from 12.5 mm long by 1 mm deep
• Depth sizing from 0.5 to 7 mm deep
• Cope with lift-off of up to 3 mm (non-conductive paint, coating or air)
3. TECA FOR PIPELINE INTEGRITY (3)
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TECA High Resolution for SCC
• Technology adaptation
• New targeted sizing range: 0.25 to 3.0 mm deep with an accuracy of ±10%
• Large coverage: 71 mm
• Fast inspection: 600 mm/sec
• Lift-off compensation: up to 2 mm
• Conformable to a range of pipeline: from 254 mm of OD
3. TECA FOR PIPELINE INTEGRITY (4)
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Resolution Capabilities
• Solution validated on designed sample
• Section of pipe containing 11 EDM notches
• One long defect with stepped profile(defects 2 to 4)
• Some with dimension outside of solution’ssizing capabilities (defects 7, 8)
• Some placed in close proximity axially(defects 5, 6)
• Some placed in close proximitycircumferentially (defects 10, 11)
• Rapid discrimination of notches 1-2 mm apart axially
3. TECA FOR PIPELINE INTEGRITY (5)
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Resolution Capabilities (cont.)
• Circumferential resolution closer to 3 mm
• Defect profile easily assessed using sideview (defect 2-3-4) and depth assessed
• Defect 2: depth assessed at 1 mm
• Defect 3: depth assessed at 2 mm
• Defect 4: depth assessed at 3 mm
4. DEPLOYMENT ON REAL SAMPLES (1)
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Complete solution used on-site
• Fatigue crack assessment
• Accuracy on isolated crack similar to LPI
• Smallest crack detected at toe (5 mm long)
• Only microns of difference in depth sizing compare to UT measurements
• Crack colony assessment
• Colonies easily displayed with very high definition
• Good correlation with MT mapping
• Discrimination of short cracks in colonies
• Rapid assessment of deepest point
4. DEPLOYMENT ON REAL SAMPLES (2)
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Key performance
• Depth sizing accuracy
• Assessment by gradual grinding of selectedSCC zones and measurement of remaining wallthickness using UT
• Depths measured with TECA were aligned withthe remaining WT assessment: 0.8 mm withTECA, 0.67 mm with ILI and 0.7 to 0.9 mmwith grinding
• Depth sizing repeatability
• Evaluated by scanning the same area 10 times
• Measuring the deepest point each time
• Average deviation was only ±0.08 mm from theaverage depths
4. DEPLOYMENT ON REAL SAMPLES (3)
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Key performance
• Human factor
• 5 known defective areas scanned bythree different operators
• Comparison of depth sizingobtained from each dataset(deepest point at 3 selectedlocations along each scan)
• 15 points assessed
• Depths measured varied from 0.4 to1.8 mm
• Difference in depth sizing variedfrom 0 to 0.3 mm
• Maximum variation seen on colonydetected near a weld
5. CONCLUSION
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• An eddy current array technique has been developedfor the detection and sizing of surface-breakingcracks in carbon steel
• The high-resolution development proved to be adapted to thesentencing of stress corrosion cracking in pipelines
• The technology provides valuable defect depth and lengthmeasurements, but also offers C-Scan imaging with real-time lift-offmonitoring and compensation
• These solutions are being used on-site and demonstrate theircapacity to mitigate potential errors caused by human factors andthose from the unrepeatable results of current methods used in ditchtoday