Many, if not most, of the papers in the literature report results of
experiments that are barely beyond the conceptual stage on the NASA Technology
Readiness scale.
If you are interested in research that has moved up the scale, try Googling
some of the following terms.
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Bench scale
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Lab scale
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Pilot scale
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Demonstration
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Scale up
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Commercialization
For example, here are Google® search statements on desulfurization, combined with the
above key words …
desulfurization AND bench
467,000 results
desulfurization AND "lab scale"
128,000 results
desulfurization AND pilot
159,000 results
desulfurization AND demonstration
117,000
desulfurization AND "scale up"
195,000 results
desulfurization AND commercialization
316,000 results
As always, the overall strategy is …
There is no one database that can do all this for you. Resign yourself to hours
of online research … or delegate that task to a trusted assistant.
The latest issue of Pipeline Technology Journal (www.pipeline-journal.net), Issue 2,
March 2017, is now available in digital form.
Pipeline Technology Journal is published by Euro Institute for Information and
Technology Transfer GmbH (http://www.eitep.de/).
The President & Editor in Chief is Dr. Klaus Ritter (ritter@eitep.de)
According to the Euro Institute Web site …
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The Euro Institute for Information and
Technology Transfer in Environmental Protection, EITEP, was originally founded
by the German technical and scientific associations on energy and water. The
main objective of the EITEP Institute is to foster the international
information and technology transfer in the water, energy, environment and
infrastructure sector.
Our institute cooperates with different federal and regional governmental
ministries, institutions of higher education and our partner associations and
their member companies. By means of this network in Europe, Asia, Middle East
and Africa, the EITEP Institute develops and organizes international
conferences, seminars, electronic journals (Pipeline Technology Journal,
Infrastructure Technology Journal) and trade shows like Pipeline Technology
Conference, Infrastructure North Africa and Infrastructure Middle East.
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The current issue of Pipeline Technology Journal includes the following
articles …
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ARTICLES
The Importance
of Combatting Corrosion
Andreas Pfanger, Senior Integrity Engineer NDT Global
andreas.pfanger@ndt-global.com
ABSTRACT
No matter the location of a pipeline – be it under or above ground, offshore or
onshore – without the necessary protection or maintenance, it is vulnerable to
corrosion. The structural integrity of a pipeline is severely susceptible to
damage. As pipeline materials are often placed in environments where corrosion
is a regular occurrence, the need to manage and mitigate the potential damage
caused by corrosion is paramount. These environments – sometimes referred to as
extreme – push the pipeline materials beyond their considered design and
construction. Even in occasions where manufacturers account for corrosion, the
volatile nature of the environment often results in unanticipated corrosion
damage. It is important, therefore, to record high-resolution data with the
latest and most innovative tool technology to help manage the threat that
corrosion poses. NDT Global employs such tactics. A leading supplier of
ultrasonic pipeline in-line inspection (ILI) and data analysis, the company has
conducted ultrasonic testing (UT) on countless pipelines and has a combined 465
man-years of experience in data analysis.
Pigging Time
Interval for a PipelineTransports Heavy Crude Oil
Hesham A. M. Abdou, Agiba Petroleum Company, General Manager In
Operations Department
heshamaabdou@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
In western desert at Egypt, an onshore pipeline; 10.75 inch (outer diameter) x
20 km & 0.366 inch thickness, transports mixture of heavy crude oil (22
API = 0.9218 sp.gr. & 30 c.St.) with water. Its original design was for
transportation of 42 Thousands Barrel Per Day (TBPD) at an average recommended
flow velocity as 5.0 ft/s, gathered from many future wells. Currently, flow
rate is 20 TBPD at low flow velocity so, it’s a chance for sand settling and
accumulation of paraffin, wax, ... etc. hence a pigging program is needed with
time interval that will be determined in this paper which aim is to find out a relation
between increase in pressure loss and blockage may happens in the pipeline as a
result of sand settling at different levels of production flow rates, it’s well
known that such settling is expected with flow velocity less than the
recommended one. By continuous building up of sand settled on internal wall of
the pipeline, internal flow passage decreases and pressure loss increases which
reflects on well head pressure as back pressure tends to decrease flow from the
oil well. To determine the blocked area by sand, the following factors are
considered: 1) Content of basic sediment and water. 2) Sand particle sizes. 3)
Period of flow. Also, critical flow velocity (below which, sand settling
occurs) is calculated function in solid particle diameter, solid-liquid density
ratio and solids volume fraction. Due to nature of crude oil, that has relatively
low API, high viscosity and low flowing velocity, it’s recommended not to
delay pigging operations behind five days, this subject depends also on the
solid particle size. Contribution is determination of pigging time interval
based on oil specifications, pressure loss and contained sand particle size,
applied in similar situations.
Wireless
Portable LDS for Theft Detection
Soonho Jeong, Technology Team Leader at Daehan Oil Pipeline
Corporation (DOPCO)
seoinsj@dopco.co.kr
Jinseok Kim, Technology Team Member at Daehan Oil Pipeline Corporation (DOPCO)
jskim@dopco.co.kr
Soohyun You, Technology Team Member at Daehan Oil Pipeline Corporation (DOPCO)
shyou@dopco.co.kr
Abstract
Oil pipeline Leak Detection System (LDS) is widely used to minimize the
environmental damages and financial losses by discovering the leakage in its
early stages. However, due to the long distance between sensors and immobility,
existing wired stationary LDS has inherent limits in detection accuracy. We
present a wireless portable LDS which can find the leakage location more
accurately than conventional LDS. This wireless portable LDS can transmit and
receive pressure transient data in the pipeline via Long Term Evolution (LTE)
high speed wireless communication in real time. It is possible to operate more
than 24 hours with equipped battery and also to be connected with power supply
for continuous monitoring. Mobility of the wireless portable LDS allows us to
narrow the suspected range of the leakage event step by step and to minimize
the detection error. Wireless portable LDS can be used either by itself or
combined with existing LDS to improve the sensitivity. This wireless portable
LDS will be helpful to locate very small leaks as well as intermittent theft
for the pipeline protection.
Object oriented
implementation & maintenance of pipeline SCADA and applications
Martin te Lintelo, Yokogawa Europe BV, Business development manager,
oil & gas
martin.te.lintelo@nl.yokogawa.com
Eduard van Loenen, Yokogawa Electric Corporation, SCADA business development manager
Eduard.van.Loenen@nl.yokogawa.com
Abstract:
For the operation of a pipeline being able to operate in a safe and reliable
way are basic conditions. A SCADA system together with additional supporting
pipeline applications like leak detection, metering, mass balancing, pump and
compressor management and batch scheduling & tracking play a crucial role
in enabling this and are part of a Pipeline Management System (PMS). Main KPIs
for implementing and operating these systems are cost and risk. Although
attempts have been made by pipeline operators to define an object oriented IT
infrastructure for the PMS following the pipeline (grid) topology it seems that
only partial solutions, which don’t use a common definition structure, have
been developed. These developments seem to be driven from an IT perspective
without including the required elements in the OT environment, but do come with
the typical issues of an IT implementation. A crucial element in the PMS
development would be having a configurable and truly object oriented SCADA
environment following the physical pipeline (grid) topology with integrating
standard pipeline applications and hence managing part of the crucial IT/OT integration.
In this paper a development of such an environment is described. Elements like
the conceptual setup, integrated functions, implementation methods, operational
support and maintenance of the system incl. handling extensions of the pipeline
(grid) are described together with the (perceived) advantages compared with
more conventional approaches.
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TIP:
The digital edition of the Pipeline Technology Journal is free. If you are interested in pipeline corrosion,
you should subscribe.
The European Refining Technology Conference ERTC 2017 (http://ertc.wraconferences.com/) is
scheduled for 13-15 November, 2017, in Athens, Greece.
A call for papers has been issued. Hurry! The deadline is 12 May 2017.
Details from an email I rec’d appear below …
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Subject:
Call for Papers now open!
Date: Thu, April 20, 2017 4:03 am
Call for Papers
now open!
ERTC is the platform for technology providers to present their
latest technologies.
Gathering 562 industry professionals in 2016 from refinery operators,
petrochemical plants, technology providers, regulators and government officials
to discuss and share market insights, project updates, best practices and case
studies as well as the latest in process and technology advances in order to
drive the industry forward.
ERTC, co-located with the Global
Petrochemicals Summit (GPS), is THE event to be part of.
Get involved!
You are now invited to submit papers for ERTC and GPS for acceptance by the
Advisors (you can send up to five papers per company). Please see acceptance
criteria here and guidelines here. At this stage, the only requirements are a
working title, subject area and brief description of the proposed content
(typically a 200 word abstract).
In order to ensure submission to the Advisory Board, abstracts must be
submitted by Friday 12th May using the form provided.
See more information and the themes here.
Download the Submission Form here.
New for 2017
•ERTC has appointed a brand new Advisory Board made up of industry experts from
the region’s largest and most prestigious refiners to help shape the agenda and
make the paper selection for the conference
•We have held 2 face to face Advisory Board meetings with the new advisors, to
ensure the themes for ERTC tackle the most important issues the refining and
petrochemical industry is facing.
Advisors include
Grigoris Stergioulis, CEO, Hellenic Petroleum
Andrea Amoroso; Vice President, Process Technology, ENI
José Carlos Silva, COO Refining and Planning, Galp Energia
David Pullan, Group Downstream Development Senior Vice President, MOL Group
Please email your abstracts in the completed form to me on
sofia.barros@clarionevents.com by 12th May.
I look forward to receiving your abstracts.
Sofia Barros
Senior Conference Producer & Project Manager
World Refining Association
t: +44 (0) 20 7384 7944
m: +44 (0) 7408 806 486
e: sofia.barros@clarionevents.com
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