So You are Considering On-Stream Inspection Technologies... Have You Thought it Through?

With miles of piping and tons of equipment to consider for on-stream inspection or monitoring you probably have:

• Applied a methodology prioritizing equipment or systems for scrutiny.
• Developed and utilize a scheme considering failure probability and consequences combined effects for your decisions.
• Arrived at these decisions together with maintenance, inspection and operations.
• Identified the most likely potential damage mechanisms and fracture critical areas potentially impacting reliability and/or mechanical integrity (MI), and combined with past experience and technical knowledge determined a representative percentage of area to inspect.

Simultaneously:

• Budgets have been set.
• You have identified NDE methods capable of detecting respective potential damage mechanisms with sensitivities and accuracies satisfying engineering critical assessment (ECA) criteria.
• Inspection techniques have been evolving/developing and qualified.
• NDE vendors and/or in-house personnel have been qualified to some extent, as well.