Managing corrosion-a key challenge

摘要

MANAGING CORROSION IS one of the key challenges facing operators in their drive to maintain an asset(s) integrity. Assessing, inspecting and repairing corrosion will help ensure compliance with statutory and corporate HSE requirements and can help reduce the likelihood of environmental and safety hazards and incidents. While corrosion to elements of an asset such as walkways, valves and cable trays, are easy to visually identify, inspecting corrosion under process pipe supports poses a number of major challenges. The restricted access and visual impairment of the pipe support to pipework geometry means many conventional forms of non destructive testing are not effective.