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Raw Beginnings: The Evolution of Offshore Oil Industry Pipeline Safety
A lot of insight and work goes into oil industry leak detection projects, and a lot of amazing things come out. -
Why You Must Factor Maintenance Into the Cost of Any Industrial System
Maintenance is as important as the selection & implementation of an industrial system. It's not an extra cost, but is an inherent price of this technology. -
How Does Heat Transfer Affect Operation of Your Natural Gas or Crude Oil Pipeline?
There are four methods of heat transfer in most industrial pipeline situations. Each involves significantly different methodology and calculations. -
How Differing Conditions Impact the Validity of Industrial Pipeline Monitoring and Leak Detection Assumptions
Understanding how the process system and automation equipment work is crucial in pipeline leak detection. -
Are Pipeline Leaks Deterministic or Stochastic?
Leaks occur in an inherently stochastic environment and context so there is no reason to presume there is anything deterministic about them. -
Condition-Dependent Conundrum: How to Obtain Accurate Measurement in the Process Industries
Fluids have a lot of condition-dependent properties. They consist of solids, liquids, gasses, or combinations. Industrial engineers must deal with a number of fluid state issues. -
Keeping Vibration Analysis Happy
By Chris Johnson, SMB Bearings Vibration analysis can provide valuable insight into machine condition, flagging up problems before extensive damage occurs. This article explains the steps machine builders should take to reduce the likelihood of bearings being the root cause. -
Does Instrument Placement Matter in Dynamic Process Control?
To control an industrial process you have must see it, and usually measure it, so that enough resolution to enable the underling picture to be seen. -
AVEVA helps Anglian Water enhance smart leak detection
As a web-based solution that leverages the Industrial Internet of Things, data can be extracted from any water network distribution or maintenance-related data source. -
How to Test and Validate a Pipeline Leak Detection System
Pipeline leak detection testing provides the assessment of how a system can work, how it’s working now, the tools for analyzing unusual occurrences, and a vehicle for training and testing operators. -
Three Decades of Life with Pipeline Leak Detection
At a time when detecting large industrial pipeline leaks within the same day was challenging, new technology that could detect small leaks and any leak quickly was exciting. -
What Observations Improve Specificity in Pipeline Leak Detection?
The size of a pipeline leak affects the relevant process parameters and the observed changes in them help with determining of the state of the pipeline. -
What Are the Performance Measures for Pipeline Leak Detection?
Performance measure for pipeline leak detection are generally taken to be sensitivity (the size leak that can be detected), specificity (the certainty that a detected event of some kind is actually a -
Do Government Pipeline Regulations Improve Safety?
Conditions encountered by pipelines in the U.S. are diverse and the complexity motivates broad and cautiously general requirements. This is not the case at the borders of all sovereign nations. Diverg -
Can Risk Analysis Really Be Reduced to a Simple Procedure?
Geographically diverse systems using integrated technology are inherently complex. A structured way of analyzing them can be very helpful. -
The Impact of Theft, Accidents, and Natural Losses From Pipelines
Modern leak detection equipment can prevent pipeline theft. -
Is Theft the New Frontier for Process Control Equipment?
Loss of a fraction of a percent of line flow rate can be detected and located within meters in a very short period of time. -
What You Can Learn About Pipeline Leaks From Government Statistics
Nearly any industrial pipeline leak results in costs in the tens of millions of dollars, and costs are increasing over time. About a third of the documented costs involve property damage and cleanup -
ISA announces 2018 Leak Detection and Repair/Fugitive Emissions (LDAR) Symposium
Designed exclusively to meet the needs of LDAR and air compliance professionals, the three-day event, to be held 5-8 March 2018 in Galveston, Texas, features a technical program and lineup of expert speakers as well as ISA-led training, a vendor exhibition and networking activities. -
How to Optimize Pipeline Leak Detection: Focus on Design, Equipment and Insightful Operating Practices
Leak detection rarely prevents accidents. Good design, good equipment, and insightful operating practices do that.
