Continuous corrosion surveillance of process equipment by new - electrochemical - sensing techniques and devices

Información del proyecto

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: BRPR970433

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de inicio 1 Mayo 1997

Fecha de finalización 31 Agosto 2000

Financiado con arreglo a

• Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998

Coste total

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Aportación de la UE

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Coordinado por

METALOGIC N.V. A.I. TECHNOLOGIES & ENGINEERING
Belgium

Objetivo

During this project a 'Continuous Corrosion Surveillance System' was developed. The following results have been achieved:
a) Positive evaluation of the EFM -method and EES-method on laboratory scale;
b) the elaboration of a UT inspection procedure and the development of powerful data processing software;
c) The first prototype of the data management system is ready.

The corrosion management tool is based on the software shell of the ALIAS system into which new modules for corrosion monitoring and NDT analysis were integrated;
d) Study on general hardware and software requirements for an industrial monitoring system has been carried out, taking into account the specifications and the requirements of the end-users. Software development has been carried out. An integrated system has been built;
e) The integrated system has been tested on industrial scale. Special electrodes have been developed for each application separately. Plant validation has been carried out at Cires, EDP and Akzo. Test results are available from the industrial partners. The industrial benefits, relevance and future potential has been studied.
A 'Continuous Corrosion Surveillance system' has been developed. A prototype is ready and tested in various industrial environments. A corrosion management tool has been developed and integrated in the monitoring system.
The overall objective of this project (and its commercial 'follow up' phase) is to develop and operate by the year 2001 an innovative CONTlNUOUS CORROSION SURVEILLANCE system, which permanently monitors the condition of process installations (reactors, storage vessels, heat exchangers & water circuits, piping & pipelines, ...) in service and reduces the number of forced outages due to degradation by corrosion.

This corrosion surveillance system will be based on:

new (electrochemical) sensing techniques which allow on line monitoring of both uniform and localized types of corrosion:
incorporation of these techniques into innovative industrially sound devices;
combination with some selected (adapted) NDE technologies and devices;
creation of improved software tools for "integral" corrosion monitoring and inspection management, allowing expert
evaluation/interpretation of the monitoring data for on line real time diagnostics and operator/plant engineer support.
The techniques and devices will be thoroughly tested and validated in laboratorv & field trials. The latter will include 3 radically different applications:
surveillance of protection system against external corrosion (i.e. monitoring of cathodic protection on buried pipeline),
surveillance of general (internal) corrosion in a chemical process vessel (by means of electrochemical monitoring),
surveillance of both general and localized corrosion in the water circuit of a power plant, by means of combined electrochemical monitoring and NDE, including the recommendation of corrective actions.

Finally, a manufacturing specification will be prepared for the device(s) that successfully complete the field trials. A number of prototype systems will be manufactured and distributed to the Partners (and to project 'sponsors' outside the Consortium) for longer term trials, outside the project, intended to support the long term exploitation of the technologies.

It is expected that after the end of the project (1999), about two years of additional on site tests at the premises of end users and further development will be needed to make the surveillance tools sufficiently reliable and user friendly to function in an industrial environment. Introduction into the market will therefore start about two years after the end of the project (2001).

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

• ciencias naturales › informática y ciencias de la información › software › desarrollo de software
• ciencias naturales › informática y ciencias de la información › ciencia de datos › tratamiento de datos

Programa(s)

• FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998

Tema(s)

• 0104 - Safety and reliability of production systems

Convocatoria de propuestas

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Régimen de financiación

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinador

METALOGIC N.V. A.I. TECHNOLOGIES & ENGINEERING

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: 60,Kapeldreef 60 ; 3001 HEVERLEE ; Bélgica
• Coste total: Sin datos

Participantes (6)

Akzo Nobel Chemicals BV

Países Bajos

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: 76,Velperweg ; 6800 SB Arnhem
• Coste total: Sin datos

Companhia Industrial de Resinas Sinteticas SA

Portugal

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: Quinta da Industria ; 3861 Estarreja
• Coste total: Sin datos

EDP - ELECTRICIDADE DE PORTUGAL SA

Portugal

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: 55/2,Av. Estados Unidos da America 55/2 ; 1749-061 LISBOA
• Coste total: Sin datos

INSTITUTO DE SOLDADURA E QUALIDADE ASSOCIACAO*

Portugal

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: KM 3,AVENIDA DO PROFESSOR DOUTORCAVACO SILVA 33PARQUE D ; 2740-120 PORTO SALVO
• Coste total: Sin datos

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Bélgica

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: 2,Celestijnenlaan 300A ; 3001 Leuven
• Coste total: Sin datos

Staatliche Materialprüfungsanstalt

Alemania

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: Pfaffenwaldring 32 ; 70569 Stuttgart
• Coste total: Sin datos