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Quality assurance and structural evaluation of GRP pipes
Start date:2005-02-01
End date:2007-07-31
Project Acronym:SURE2GRIP
Project status:Completed
Coordinator
| Organization name:TWI LIMITED | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Aamir |
Granta Park, Great Abington CAMBRIDGE UNITED KINGDOM Region:EAST ANGLIA Cambridgeshire |
| Tel:+44-122-389-1162 | |
| Fax:+44-122-389-2588 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.twi.co.uk | Organization Type:Research |
Description
Objective:
Over 10 million kilometres of pipelines in European transport hazardous fluids, of which over half are carrying hydrocarbons (i.e. oil, oil derivatives and gas). Only a very small number of these pipelines are made from corrosion resistant GRP materials, with the vast majority of pipelines being fabricated from steel pipes joined together by butt welds.
Steel pipelines are prone to corrode over a period of time and are therefore likely to leak hydrocarbon products into the environment. For use in ambient temperatures and relatively low pressure applications, GRP would offer an attractive alternative to steel were it not the fact that the integrity of the interconnecting pipe joints cannot be inspected with a high level of confidence.
The inadequacy of conventional NOT techniques seriously limits the current applications of GRP pipelines and furthermore the joint needs to be 'over wrapped' to provide a secondary containment in event that the primary joint is defective. If suitable NOT methods can be developed, GRP pipe would be used in additional applications pipeline that cannot be currently considered as viable. The consortium SME partners propose to develop new and novel Non Destructive Evaluation (NDE) techniques, sensors and systems that are capable of assessing the quality assurance and structural integrity of 'production' and 'in-service' GRP pipes and pipe joints.
Hence this key enabling technology will facilitate the use of GRP materials without the need for cost prohibitive over engineering processes such as secondary containment 'over-wrap'. The highly reliable and sensitive NOT methods developed under this proposal will also extend the use of GRP pipe into other applications that have traditionally been the domain of corrosion prone metallics that have resulted in a series of catastrophes.
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Project Details
Start date:2005-02-01
End date:2007-07-31
Duration:30 months
Project Reference:513266
Project cost:1939883 EURO
Project Funding:1072576 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP6-SME
Programme type:Sixth Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Horizontal research activities involving SMEs
Contract type:No contract type
URL:
Subject index:Economic Aspects, Regional Development
Results for this Project
| Final Report Summary - SURE2GRIP (Quality assurance and structural evaluation of GRP pipes) | 14/04/2011 |
Documents for this Project
| Final Report - SURE2GRIP (Quality assurance and structural evaluation of GRP pipes) | 14/04/2011 |
Other participants
| Organization name:ZENON S.A. ROBOTICS AND INFORMATICS | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Antonis |
RESEARCH AND DEVLOPMENT 5 Kanari Street, Glyka Nera ATHENS HELLAS Region:ATTIKI |
| Tel:+30-2106041582 | |
| Fax:+30-2106041051 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.zenon.gr | Organization Type:Industry |
| Organization name:OY AJAT LTD | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Konstantinos |
OY AJAT Ltd, Tietotie 3 ESPOO SUOMI/FINLAND Region:MANNER-SUOMI UUSIMAA |
| Tel:+358-405681865 | |
| Fax:+358-945590753 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.ajat.fi | Organization Type:Industry |
| Organization name:ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY GROUP SRO | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Tomas |
Matejska 2416 PRAHA 6 CESKA REPUBLIKA Region:CESKA REPUBLIKA PRAHA |
| Tel:+420-234312202 | |
| Fax:+420-234312205 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.atg.cz | Organization Type:Industry,Other |
| Organization name:TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SECTOR | |
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Name:Bogomil |
8 kliment ohridski Bulevard SOFIA BULGARIA Region:YUGOZAPADEN Sofia stolitsa |
| Tel:+359-29653197 | |
| Fax:+34-929652410 | |
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| URL:http://www.tu-sofia.acad.bg | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:RWE NPOWER PLC | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Richard |
INSPECTION MANAGEMENT Trigonos, Windmill Hill Business Park, Whitehill Way SWINDON, WILTSHIRE UNITED KINGDOM Region: |
| Tel:+44-1793892043 | |
| Fax:+44-17938922884597300001 | |
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| URL:http://www.rwenpower.com | Organization Type:Industry |
| Organization name:NDT SOLUTIONS LTD | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Chris |
Dunston Innovation Centre, Dunston Road CHESTERFIELD UNITED KINGDOM Region:EAST MIDLANDS DERBYSHIRE, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Derbyshire |
| Tel:+44-01246267550 | |
| Fax:+44-01246269381 | |
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| URL:http://www.ndtsolutions.com | Organization Type:Industry |
| Organization name:UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA BUCURESTI | |
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Name:Nicolae |
Splaiul Independentei 313 BUCURESTI ROMANIA Region:BUCURESTI Bucuresti |
| Tel:+40-216502069 | |
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| Organization name:LASER OPTICAL ENGINEERING LIMITED | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:John |
18 GRANGE AVENUE 6321 LOUGHBOROUGH UNITED KINGDOM Region:EAST MIDLANDS LEICESTERSHIRE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Leicestershire |
| Tel:+44-01509228733 | |
| Fax:+44-01509223948 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.laseroptical.co.uk | Organization Type:Industry |
| Organization name:LOT ORIEL GMBH & CO KG | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Shayz |
Im Tiefen See 58 DARMSTADT DEUTSCHLAND Region:HESSEN DARMSTADT Darmstadt, Kreisfreie Stadt |
| Tel:+49-615188060 | |
| Fax:+49-6151896667 | |
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| URL:http://www.lot.oriel.com | Organization Type:Industry |
| Organization name:MIKRON LTD. | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Kantzis |
17 Menemenis Str TAVROSS/ATHENS HELLAS Region: |
| Tel:+30-2103469840 | |
| Fax:+30-2103479845 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL: | Organization Type:Industry |
| Organization name:KELLOGG BROWN ROOT LIMITED | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Ainsley |
Hill Park Court, Springfield Drive LEATHERHEAD UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH EAST (UK) SURREY, EAST-WEST SUSSEX Surrey |
| Tel:+44-01372865030 | |
| Fax:+44-01372865656 | |
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| URL:http://www.halliburton.com | Organization Type:Industry |
| Organization name:AMERON B.V. | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Rick |
PO Box 6 J F Kennedylaan 7 GELDERMALSEN NEDERLAND Region:OOST-NEDERLAND GELDERLAND Zuidwest-Gelderland |
| Tel:+31-345587587 | |
| Fax:+31-345587551 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.ameron-fpg.nl | Organization Type:Industry |
| Organization name:PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A | |
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Name: |
PO Box 15515 Republica do Chile, 65 RIO DE JANEIRO BRAZIL Region: |
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Record control number:86237
