Objective
Within the European Community there are over 110 refineries, 400 chemical plant and an estimated 10 millionkilometres of interconnecting and transmission pipelines and pipe-work. An estimated 40% to 50% of thepipelines/pipe-work are directly accessible for Non Destructive Testing (NDT) and inspection. The majority ofthe pipe-work and vessels carry toxic and/or flammable fluids, at high temperature and pressure where breach ofcomponent containment can have considerable safety, environmental and economic implications. There is anestimated 200 offshore oil and gas production installations operating within European waters with thousands ofkilometres of critical topside accessible pipe-work. Digital radiography will allow safer, faster and moreeconomical 'in-situ' radiography to be undertaken on pipe work welds and parent material thus helping meetEuropean safety, environmental and social objectives.The aerospace and automotive industries throughout Europe produce millions of steel and alloy precisioncastings each year, many of which are used in safety critical applications. In the main the current practice is toexamine using film radiography 'off-line' of the casting production process. Digital direct radiography willsignificantly reduce the inspection cycle inspection time by allowing the radiography to talk place 'in-line' at thefoundry.The consortium SME's aim to develop digital radiographie systems to meet the stringent defectdetectability requirements of the petrochemical, aerospace and automotive industries. A step change in theuse of'in-line' and site radiography is intended, such that the safety, environmental and economicsbenefits to industry are compelling. Hence, the consortium SME's will access the 500 million Euro per annum,in-service inspection market for pipeline/pipe-work in the oil and gas and petrochemical industries as well as theprecision casting inspection market place for the aerospace and automotive industry.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology medical engineering diagnostic imaging x-ray radiography
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering vehicle engineering automotive engineering
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels fossil energy natural gas
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
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CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom
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