The Petrobras Research Centre - CENPES - and the Rio de Janeiro Federal University - UFRJ - have developed a completely automized gammagraphy system in order to inspect underwater pipelines in the oil industry. This project aims at achieving the state of the art in detection and measurement of alveoli corrosion and fatigue cracks in underwater pipelines and steel catenary risers (SCRs). This paper presents the development of the gammagraphy system that will be used, which uses Iridium-192 as radiation source, and will be available with phosphor image plates. Underwater conditions require fixed source-film geometry considering the additional thickness of the pipeline coating and conducted fluid. The available parameters are minimum source activity and contrast sensitivity of the computed radiography systems. Contrast sensitivity evaluation is performed by a computeraided procedure with the line profile of the radiographic image.
Gamma ray system operated by robots for underwater pipeline inspection
Gamma-Strahlensystem zum Einsatz für Unterwasser-Pipelineprüfung mit Robotern
2006
12 Seiten, 23 Bilder
Conference paper
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English