Case Study

Fitness for Service Level 3 Assessment Corrosion/Erosion

Project Scope
> Definition of safe working pressure envelope for
corroded/eroded piping system based on high
definition NDT scan data
Key Features
> Mapping of wall thickness data provided by
the operators inspection service contractor to
structural model
> By using a linearisation approach the current
utilisation factors were quantified to determine
the maximum line pressure that could be
handled.
> Reduction in conservatism by using actual
mapped data rather than a simplified (worst
case) profile
> Forward prediction also undertaken to
determine change in wall loss over time and
associated change in utilisation factor