腐蚀预测管理提高设备完整性

SGS and Baker Hughes, a GE company have announced a strategic alliance agreement (SAA) for the joint deployment and commercialization of BHGE’s real-time software and sensor-based predictive corrosion management (PCM) solution. Leveraging the capability of the industrial internet of things (IIoT), PCM will enable asset owners to increase their ability to monitor their facilities, and detect and predict corrosion issues using real-time data powered by BHGE’s ultrasonic sensing technology and advanced analytics. François Marti, SGS COO, North America, and Holger Laubenthal, CEO, inspection technologies for BHGE, signed the SAA in the presence of customers and company officials during a recent conference in Houston.

PCM generates wall thickness and temperature measurements from Rightrax PM ultrasonic sensors placed on critical equipment such as pipes, tanks, and vessels; the solution applies advanced analytics, resulting in real-time assessment of data that has traditionally been gathered through risky and time-consuming manual inspections. While particularly valuable to oil & gas downstream, petrochemical, and upstream asset operators, PCM can help any industry segment challenged by corrosion-related risk.  PCM is one essential tool to help asset owners benefit from enhanced plant reliability and integrity programs, while maximizing operational safety and extending asset life.

SGS provides visual inspection and non-destructive testing services to large industrial assets, both in-service and during regular shutdown events, helping to ensure industrial asset integrity globally. BHGE’s inspection technologies business, part of its digital solutions segment, has been one of SGS’ suppliers of non-destructive testing technology for years and is itself providing industrial asset owners with critical technological solutions and services. Combining SGS’ broad network and asset integrity expertise with BHGE’s technological expertise will ensure rapid deployment of PCM, and drive scale in the market for inspection and maintenance services and technology.

PCM

Transforming Inspection Data Into Predictive Intelligence

Predictive Corrosion Management (PCM) combines cloud-based software with Rightrax PM installed sensors into a single solution, giving oil and gas businesses the ability to non-intrusively monitor interior piping wall thickness and proactively mitigate the effects of corrosion and erosion. PCM delivers actionable intelligence for the management of corrosion-related risk, extending pipe monitoring beyond what manual inspections can cover and minimizing operations costs.

This powerful package allows operators in upstream, downstream, power, and chemical facilities to monitor interior wall piping thickness at a higher frequency and take precise schedule-based measurements in your facilities. It also helps improve the safety of the facility and the personnel, eliminates the need to shut down critical processes, and to deploy the field maintenance professionals only when necessary.

With real-time trends and robust visualizations, you can make proactive and informed decisions about the critical asset life and reliability—reducing the total cost of operations and increasing peace of mind.

Enabling better decisions with visibility and trending of interior piping wall loss

PCM draws on sensor data for repeatable, accurate measurement of interior piping wall thickness and temperature. Using BHGE’s Rightrax PM installed sensors, you can accurately measure and monitor the interior wall thickness and temperature of pipes in refineries, chemical plants, and upstream applications. The data is streamed into a cloud-based repository that can provide scalable storage and analytics computing. Using BHGE’s advanced analytics and visualizations, PCM delivers a secure view of current and projected interior piping wall loss due to corrosion and erosion. The ability to correlate process data with thickness data can help improve your operational awareness and decision making.

• Manage and mitigate corrosion-related risks: Non-intrusively monitor interior piping wall thickness
• Reduce inspection-related costs: Reduce the total cost of inspections for hard to reach or inaccessible locations
• Improve equipment performance: Optimize maintenance by potentially reducing early piping replacement
• Improve/optimize process and operations: Make informed decisions with the help of out-of-the-box analytics like corrosion rates and remaining life of monitored assets
• Optimize chemical inhibitor program: Save cost associated with over-injecting
• Improve personnel safety: Reduce inspector exposure to hard-to-reach, potentially dangerous locations

Software for the Digital Industrial world.

Predictive Corrosion Management software is powered by Predix™, GE Digital’s cloud-based platform built for the Industrial Internet. With the sensors feeding continuous data to the cloud-based software, you are able to improve the reliability of inspections, eliminate manual inconsistencies, as well as see trends and predictions that can help improve operational awareness and decision making—extending the run life of pipes across your facility. The software today provides the following capabilities:

• Geospatial analytics for simple, drill-down views of asset health where sensors are installed
• Real-time view of corrosion rates, temperature, and wall thickness
• Sensor equipment health monitoring

Expert services

Working with your process and reliability experts and corrosion engineers, we will help you define the right solution for your application. Our services include the application assessment, site survey, deployment, configuration, installation, and setup.

Sensors that go beyond the expected.

Rightrax PM sensors operate virtually maintenance-free in the harshest environments. These permanently installed sensors can be installed in hard-to-reach areas, reducing the cost of scaffolding and rigging. Their low-profile design can be installed under insulation, reducing repeated and costly insulation removal and replacement. All of which means less manpower, and more reliable data.

• Ultrasonic wall thickness monitoring system for pipe corrosion and erosion
• Continuous monitoring of pipes, elbows, headers, even under insulation—while in service
• Proprietary SolGel ultrasonic probe technology for dry coupling
• Inherently safe, ATEX Zone-0 certified components
• Installed without couplant, adhesives or welding, virtually maintenance-free
• Remotely access data via the web