Project description
Better inspection of pipe networks
With many pipe networks reaching their age of replacement, the industry is facing a major need for investments over the next decade. Without proper inspection techniques, however, we may be replacing perfectly good pipes and leaving bad ones as we simply do not know their state. Capitalising on the success of the Phoenix project, the EU-funded SMarble project aims to deliver an enhanced inspection technique, which includes the insertion of special floats in operational pipes and tanks to measure their internal movements. Following extraction, data will be analysed, and the results can be used for extracting information about both the process and the environment through which the floats move.
Objective
Pipe networks for both industry and utilties face a major replacement investment over the next decenium as many of these networks are reaching the age for which they where build. Without proper inspection techniques however we may be replace perfectly good pipes and leaving bad ones as we simply do not know their state.
Industrial mixing tanks are heavely used in the proces industry and are a major energy user in plants as larger masses have to be brought into motion. Optimizing this proces could improve the quality of the mixing proces and lower the energy usage.
Both cases would benefit from enhanced inspection methods and the floats from the Phoenix project are already making their way to these systems. Within SMarble we want to show that these inspections can benefit from more technologies from Phoenix.
Phoenix floats are inserted in operational pipe and tanks and measure their own interal movement. After extraction this data is analysed and the results can be used for extracting information about both the process and the environment through which the motes move. The floats move have no propulsion or steering and thus essentially operate while the system is in normal operation.
In the Phoenix project two additional technologies have been developed, ultrasound measurement for both ranging between motes and to walls, and, based on the ultrasound measurements, and modelling of the environment. In SMarble we want to create and show the business case for bringing these technologies to market. Through two pilots and market analyses we want to assess the technology, its economic and societal potential.
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H2020-EU.1.2. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
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8443 DV Heerenveen
Netherlands
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