Spotting the Rot  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8762 (Dec. 2011), page 8.
Topik: Research & Development--R&D; Petroleum Industry; Sensors; Corrosion tests; Digital Imaging; Pipelines; Ultrasonic Imaging

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For the oil industry, with its sprawling and hazardous facilities, keeping on top of corrosion is a particularly difficult affair. Crude oil is full of corrosive chemicals and abrasive minerals, so damage to pipework is a constant risk. The consequences of failure, though, are serious. A hole in a corroded pipe can cause not only an unscheduled shutdown, costing millions of dollars, but also a grave risk to life, limb and the environment. Oil men, then, should welcome an invention by Peter Cawley and his colleagues in the non-destructive testing research group at Imperial College, London. They have devised an automatic way to monitor the integrity of pipelines, which they have just finished testing at some refineries belonging to BP, an oil giant. A company called Permasense has been set up to commercialise the idea. Besides giving refinery operators more confidence in the safety of their plants--many of which are decades old--the new scanners should also give them more flexibility in their choice of crude oil, different types of which corrode pipes at different rates.

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