(CUI) The Teletest Focus+ system is a Guided Wave NDT Technique developed for screening pipe-work for areas of metal loss damage.
It is a pulse-echo system aimed to inspect large 1 meter
volumes of material from a single test point. The initial application was for the detection of corrosion under insulation for petrochemical plant industry, but it has evolved to be used widespread in other inspection situations where pipes or tubes are not accessible. Examples of this are lines that are buried, encased in a sleeve or elevated above the ground. Figure 2 corrosion detected at 180 Plant Integrity Ltd was requested by one of its clients The area of interest was directly above water so an in Argentina to employ the Teletest Focus+ system access platform had to be erected to allow follow up on two cryogenic jetty lines at 8 and 3 diameters. to take place at this location. Upon removal of the The inspection proved to be very successful with insulation the inspection team identified external 100% of both lines being inspected over a 2 week corrosion at the 180 position seen in figure 2. This period. area of corrosion was approximately 1 meter in length and 35% wall loss.
Anomaly
Weld
Figure 3 TL01~location of detected anomaly
Figure 1 Location of anomaly area highlighted in fig 3 The A-map scan (see figure 3) was also used in the identification of this anomaly. The signal from the Each jetty line was approximately 2km in length weld identified at approximately -13m from the tool including several expansion loops and pipe bridges. position does not display an axi-symmetric response. Several anomalies were identified during the This echo response from the weld signal should be inspection and follow up was conducted whilst the displayed as an even distribution of colour operators were still on-site. The first anomaly representing uniform circumferential signal amplitude. identified was located during the opening shot of the The above gave the operator increased confidence inspection; this was of upmost interest to the client as that the signal seen at -3m was in fact attributed to a the location was in a difficult to access area seen in wall loss defect. figure 1.An anomaly classified as medium priority was identified approximately -3m from the tool position For information on how we can support your pipeline (see figure 3). integrity management programme, please contact us by email at info@plantintegrity.com or by telephone at our Cambridge, UK headquarters on 0044 1223 893994.
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