Introduction

CAKRAVARTIN SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED
(CSPL)
NDT PRESENTED FOR:

for HALDIA
PIPELINE INTEGRITY PETROCHEMICAL
LIMITED
Presented By:
Rahul Bhardwaj
Senior Manager -
Operations
CSPL
• Cakravartin Services Private Limited, chariot wheel govern with highly qualified persons, works on excellency. We provide Inspection
Services and Solutions : (specifically for Tank farm & Terminal Pipelines Inspection)
Tank Inspection (As per API 653)
• 1) Tank Bottom / Tank floor inspection by MFL (both oil & soil side)

• 2) Tank Shell (continuous UT) thickness mapping by Scorpion crawler (automatic)
• 3) Tank Bottom plate Weld Inspection by Vacuum Box Testing
• 4) Corrosion mapping of Tank Shell by Automated Ultrasonic scanner (RMS)
Pipeline Health Assessment (As per API 570, API 579)
• 5) Underground & above ground field Pipeline inspection by LRUT

• 6) Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI) by PECT
•
Other Adv. NDT Inspections
• 7) Weld Inspection by PAUT – ToFD (CS, SS, AS)

• 8) Weld Inspection by Cobra Scanner (for 2” to 4” weld joints)
• 9) Exchanger / Chiller tube inspection by ECT/RFET/NFET/IRIS/DS-ECT/MFL
• 10) Remote Visual / Borescope inspection
• 11) High Temperature thickness measurement (in-service up to 300 Deg. Cel.)
• In-situ Metallography.
CONVENTIONAL NDT
ASSET INTEGRITY INSPECTIONS:
• 1) Residual Life Assessment (RLA)

• 2) Risk Based Inspection (RBI)
• 3) Failure analysis / Failure root cause analysis
• 4) Fitness for Services (FFS)
• 5) Condition assessment
• 6) Finite element modelling and analysis
• 7) Stress analysis
Problems faced with Pipeline
owners:
• Manufacturing defects in Pipe body
• Processing defects in Pipe and welding
• In-service Corrosion/Erosion
• Corrosion under Insulation
• Corrosion under Support

ANDT Solutions:
• Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing (PAUT)
• Time of Flight Diffraction (ToFD)
• Long Range Ultrasonic Testing (LRUT)
• Pulsed Eddy Current (PEC)
• Rapid Motion Scanner (RMS)
• Short Range Ultrasonic Testing (SRUT)
• Permanent Monitoring
PAUT/ToFD
Advanced Ultrasonic technique used for flaw detection, sizing, and imaging.
Allows for electrical manipulation of probe characteristics by introducing time shifts to sent and
received signals
Utilizes multi-element (array) probes for increased capabilities over conventional Ultrasonic's.
Corrosion Mapping:
• Guided Waves - LRUT
What is Guided waves? It is a long range ultrasonic inspection technique for the
inspection of typically long pipes. Guided waves travel long distances along the
pipe reaching up to 100m in a pulse echo configuration and depending very much
on potential attenuation causing obstacles. Travel range can be also very short • Ring with ultrasonic probes is
around 5m. clamped around pipe
• Ring generates Low frequency
ultrasonics around pipe
circumference
• Waves travel down the pipe
• Sound reflects features in the pipe
(e.g. Weld, Supports, Flanges and
Corrosion)
Wavemaker ring
wave flange or
pipe end
Examined volume pipe

Corrosion Mapping:
The Corrosion under insulation problem – Guided Waves
Position of Ring
Defect is indicated
by large red component
Series of Welds
Decay Curves
Corrosion Mapping:
• Pulsed Eddy Current - PEC
• Screening tool based on Pulsed Eddy Current principle
• Detection of remaining Average Wall Thickness (AWT)
• No contact needed for the measurement
• No special surface preparation needed
• Measurement through insulation, concrete, coating, marine
growth
Amplitude
Time
Corrosion Mapping:
• Rapid Motion Scanner (RMS2)- Silverwing
• Possible to inspect 6mm – 50mm thick material in
X – Y Direction for corrosion mapping.
• 8mm Gap from probe to job enabling to ride over
weld caps.
• 0.5 to 150 mm in 1 mm steps independent X and
Y direction
• Up to 200°C
Corrosion under Support:
Corrosion under pipe supports (CUPS) is an area of concern in the industry
It leads to loss of containment.
A number of in-service leaks and ruptures have been attributed to this type of degradation
Known limitations of visual inspections:

- Visual inspection can provide an indication of corrosion (product build-up, rust staining)
- but visual inspections are significantly hampered by the lack of access to the critical
areas
- and some cases may have corrosion present without any external visible indicators
Visual examination is needed and has to

include:
• Constant load supports out of adjustment
• Shoes off support
• Hanger distortion/damage
• Bottomed out springs
• Brace distortion/damage
• Loose brackets
• Slide plates/rollers
Corrosion under Support:
• Short/Medium Range UT (SRUT/MRUT)
• Short-Range Guided Wave is a technique which uses low frequency sound waves to
flood the wall thickness of a pipe or a plate, and then reflect back at interfaces such
as cracking or corrosion/pitting. A standard ½” near field probe allows for
corrosion and defect inspection in limited space and close proximity situations.
This technique is to be used as a screening tool only as remaining wall thickness
measurements cannot be achieved. However, reflection distance can be measured
with precise accuracy.
•
• The short range guided wave technique uses a modified B-Scan graph but displays
information in terms of “Plan View” using surface distance calculations. This
technology can detect, image, record amplitude, size, and record X-Y location of
corrosion and /or various defects

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CAKRAVARTIN SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED

NDT PRESENTED FOR:

Tank Inspection (As per API 653)

• 1) Tank Bottom / Tank floor inspection by MFL (both oil & soil side)

Pipeline Health Assessment (As per API 570, API 579)

• 5) Underground & above ground field Pipeline inspection by LRUT

Other Adv. NDT Inspections

• 7) Weld Inspection by PAUT – ToFD (CS, SS, AS)

ASSET INTEGRITY INSPECTIONS:

• 1) Residual Life Assessment (RLA)

• Processing defects in Pipe and welding

• Corrosion under Insulation

• Corrosion under Support

• Time of Flight Diffraction (ToFD)

• Long Range Ultrasonic Testing (LRUT)

• Pulsed Eddy Current (PEC)

• Rapid Motion Scanner (RMS)

• Short Range Ultrasonic Testing (SRUT)

Examined volume pipe

Known limitations of visual inspections:

Visual examination is needed and has to

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