Nothing like a crisis to force people think and act differently. The concept for deployment of installed ultrasonic sensors to either replace or augment manual inspections to improve operational efficiencies and outcomes is by no means a newfangled idea. As with all technology, components get smaller and sensors become more deployable and affordable. The same with wireless UT sensors. Over the last decade the O&G industry has been marked by falling oil prices, reductions in new builds/expansions, declines in CAPEX budgets, and corporate reorganization in efforts to cut costs. Then COVID19 arrived, and the world changed in a matter of weeks. Instead of trying to cut costs, many refining and chemical plants shifted their thinking to working smart versus hard. This presentation will detail how wireless UT sensors combined with new ways of thinking has transformed the industry to save millions of dollars in asset integrity and operating efficiencies.

Subject
Costs, Sensors, Materials, Piping, Corrosion rate, Tubes, Inspection, Corrosion data, Engineers, Refining, Maintenance, Chlorides, Oil
Keywords:
Corrosion, Ultrasound, UT Sensors, PIMS (Permanently Installed Monitoring Systems), Downstream, Refining, Chemical, Wired UT (Ultrasonic Thickness), Wireless UT (Ultrasonic Thickness), Monitoring
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