POL and LDO for Harsh Environment Applications

Harsh Environment approved components/ designs require high reliability as well as availability of power to meet their system needs. The paper will explore the various design constrains imposed on the high temperature designs. Down hole oil and gas industry requires high reliability components that can withstand high temperature. Discrete component selection, packaging and constrains imposed by various specification requirements to meet harsh environment approval are critical aspect of high-temp designs. High temperature PCB material, PCB layout techniques, trace characteristics are an important aspect of high-temperature PCB design and will be explored in the article. Buck Converters are the basic building blocks, but in order to meet system requirements to power FPGA's where low output voltage and high currents are required. Converter must be able to provide wider step down ratios with high transient response so buck converters are used. The paper with explore the various features of a buck-based POL converter design. Low noise forces the need for Low-dropout (LDO) Regulators that can operate at high Temperatures up to 210°C. This paper will address the power requirements to meet system needs.

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SafeOCS Industry Safety Data Program: An Industrywide Safety Data Management Framework

Journal of Petroleum Technology ◽

10.2118/1220-0034-jpt ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 72 (12) ◽

pp. 34-37

Author(s):

Demetra V. Collia ◽

Roland L. Moreau

Keyword(s):

Oil And Gas ◽

High Reliability ◽

Safety Data ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Near Miss ◽

Outer Continental Shelf ◽

Gas Industry ◽

The Us ◽

Recommended Practices ◽

Industry Associations

Introduction In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the oil and gas industry, regulators, and other stakeholders recognized the need for increased collaboration and data sharing to augment their ability to better identify safety risks and address them before an accident occurs. The SafeOCS program is one such collaboration between industry and government. It is a voluntary confidential reporting program that collects and analyzes data to advance safety in oil and gas operations on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) established the program with input from industry and then entered into an agreement with the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) to develop, implement, and operate the program. As a principal statistical agency, BTS has considerable data-collection-and-analysis expertise with near-miss reporting systems for other industries and the statutory authority to protect the confidentiality of the reported information and the reporter’s identify. Source data submitted to BTS are not subject to subpoena, legal discovery, or Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Solving for the Gap Across industries, companies have long realized the benefits of collecting and analyzing data around safety and environmental events to identify risks and take actions to prevent reoccurrence. These activities are aided by industry associations that collect and share event information and develop recommended practices to improve performance. In high-reliability industries such as aviation and nuclear, it is common practice to report and share events among companies and for the regulators to identify hidden trends and create or update existing recommended practices, regulations, or other controls. The challenge for the offshore oil and gas industry is that industry associations and the regulator are typically limited to collecting data on agency-reportable incidents. With this limitation, other high-learning-value events or observed conditions could go unnoticed as a trend until a major event occurs. This lack of timely data represented an opportunity for the industry and the offshore regulator (BSEE) to collaborate on a means of gathering safety-event data that would allow for analysis and identification of trends, thereby enabling appropriate interventions to prevent major incidents and foster continuous improvement. The SafeOCS Industry Safety Data (ISD) program provides an effective process for capturing these trends by looking across a wider spectrum of events, including those with no consequences.

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Design of High Temperature Combline Band-pass Filters for Downhole Communications

Additional Conferences (Device Packaging HiTEC HiTEN & CICMT) ◽

10.4071/2016-hitec-312 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2016 (HiTEC) ◽

pp. 000312-000317 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mohammed Ehteshamuddin ◽

Jebreel M. Salem ◽

Dong Sam Ha

Keyword(s):

High Temperature ◽

Insertion Loss ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Heat Extraction ◽

Simple Method ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Rf Filter ◽

Stable Performance ◽

Band Pass

Abstract The decline of easily accessible reserves pushes the oil and gas industry to drill deeper to explore previously untapped wells. Temperatures in these wells can exceed 210 °C. Cooling and conventional heat extraction techniques are impractical in such a harsh environment. Reliable electronic designs that can sustain high temperature become necessary. This paper presents RF and IF microstrip combline band-pass filters for downhole communications, which can reliably operate up to 250 °C. Both filters are prototyped on a Rogers RO4003C substrate. Measured results at 250 °C show that the RF and IF filters have insertion losses of 4.53 dB and 3.45 dB, respectively. Both filters have stable performance at high temperatures. The maximum insertion loss variation with temperature for the RF filter is 1.88 dB, and bandwidth variation is 1.3 MHz. The maximum insertion loss variation with temperature for the IF filter is 1.48 dB, and bandwidth variation is 0.4 MHz. Return loss for the RF filter is more than 12 dB, and for the IF filter more than 10 dB in the passband. This paper also describes a simple method to find spacing between coupled symmetrical microstrip lines of a combline filter.

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Importance of ambient cure for high-temperature coatings

The APPEA Journal ◽

10.1071/aj19087 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 60 (2) ◽

pp. 654

Author(s):

Graeme Ross

Keyword(s):

High Temperature ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Final Project ◽

Test Methodology ◽

Silicone Coatings ◽

Increasing Process ◽

Increasing Demand ◽

Project Location

Due to increasing demand for energy around the world, the prevalence of global megaprojects within the oil and gas industry is increasing. Process pipes, valves and vessels may be manufactured and coated in China or Korea, where labour costs are comparatively low, before being transported to the final project location, such as Western Australia. During the transport and fabrication phase, coated steelwork may spend months or even years exposed to harsh offshore or coastal environments before going into service. This means coatings must be able to provide protection throughout an extensive construction phase, in addition to the in-service lifetime of the steel. This paper examines the demands on high temperature performance coatings both before and once in service. Test methodology and exposure data are reviewed with a focus on how modern aluminium pigmented silicone coatings provide a solution to the corrosion challenges faced in global megaprojects.

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High-reliability extra-large motor drives for oil and gas industry

2013 7th IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC) ◽

10.1109/ieeegcc.2013.6705768 ◽

2013 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

T. Yoshino ◽

H. Masuda ◽

H. Hosoda ◽

M. Tsukakoshi ◽

M. A. Mostafa ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Oil And Gas ◽

High Reliability ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Motor Drives ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Large Motor

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NDT application for detection of corrosion under insulation in Vietnam

Nuclear Science and Technology ◽

10.53747/jnst.v11i1.131 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 48-54

Author(s):

The Man Nguyen ◽

Duc Vinh Vu

Keyword(s):

High Temperature ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Piping System ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Non Destructive Evaluation ◽

The Cost ◽

Fluid Leak ◽

Non Destructive ◽

Corrosion Under Insulation

: In the oil and gas Industry, insulation materials can be used widely for piping system, tank and vessel in either low or high temperature applications. CUI can cause equipment degradation, fluid leak, which lead to explosion or environmental pollution and the cost will very expensive. Therefore, CUI need to be detected early to prevent damage. Through experiment, Center for Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) studied on establishing and appliying 4 NDT procedures for CUI examination on typical petroleum piping using in Vietnam. A discussion is presented below

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Quality Control of Composite Material Pipes by Infrared Thermography

Solid State Phenomena ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/ssp.188.140 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 188 ◽

pp. 140-143 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alexandrina Mihai ◽

Florin Ştefănescu ◽

Gigel Neagu ◽

C.P. Mihai

Keyword(s):

Infrared Thermography ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

High Reliability ◽

Stress Test ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Before And After ◽

Reference Images ◽

Composite Pipes ◽

The Impact

The paper presents some aspects concerning the use of infrared thermography (IRT) in the evaluation of composite pipes integrity. Composite pipelines made up of glass fibres reinforced epoxy resins are increasingly used, especially in oil and gas industry, for their good mechanical properties, combined with reduced weight and excellent behaviour under hostile environment conditions. Taking into account that high reliability is required for such pipe networks, it is mandatory to choose reliable non-destructive inspection (NDI) methods to achieve efficient structural health monitoring. The main advantages of the IRT inspection are: non-contact and non-dangerous examination. In order to characterize the integrity of composites pipes, first of all the researches were interested in obtaining a set of reference images and then to examine the samples before and after the impact stress test. The conclusions point out the schemes and the optimal parameters of evaluation as well as the application limits of thermographic inspection

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Fouling Effects on Wet Gas Compressor Performance: An Experimental Investigation

10.1115/gt2021-59543 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Dagfinn Mæland ◽

Lars E. Bakken

Keyword(s):

Oil Recovery ◽

Failure Modes ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

High Reliability ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Successful Implementation ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Wet Gas ◽

Dry Conditions ◽

Compressor Performance

Abstract Achieving profitability in mature areas such as the Norwegian continental shelf forces the oil and gas industry to apply innovative solutions to increase oil recovery and to reduce both operational and investment costs. Wet gas compressors are promising machines for increasing oil recovery from existing fields and to allow for production from small satellite fields in the proximity of existing infrastructure. A prerequisite for successful implementation of subsea wet gas compressors high reliability. Knowledge of possible failure modes is important. The effect of performance degradation due to fouling has been observed during wet gas compressor testing at K-Lab and has initiated further work to better understand and quantify the effects of fouling in wet conditions compared to dry conditions. A test campaign was conducted at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) to investigate the effect of fouled centrifugal compressor performance in both wet and dry conditions. The results documenting these effects are presented together with a proposed model for correcting the effects of fouling between dry and wet conditions.

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Compact Flanged Connections for High Temperature Applications

Analysis of Bolted Joints ◽

10.1115/pvp2002-1088 ◽

2002 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sjur Lassesen ◽

Frank Woll

Keyword(s):

Oil And Gas ◽

High Reliability ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Temperature Dependent ◽

Static Behavior ◽

Element Analysis ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Start Up ◽

Low Weight ◽

Offshore Industry

The Steelproducts Offshore Compact Flange System (SPO CFS) has proven to be an exceptionally good flange design for the oil and gas industry with service temperatures normally ranging from −100°C to +250°C. High reliability, small size and low weight are properties the offshore industry has appreciated. The design relies on a high bolt pre-tension in order to obtain the double sealing capability and the static behavior. For limited temperatures, the high pre-tension can be applied without any risk of loosing the pre-tension when the operating temperature is reached. For high temperatures, the temperature dependent material properties in flange and bolt need to be carefully evaluated and taken into account when designing the connection. Finite element analysis simulating all relevant phases from flange make-up to process start up and shut down have been performed in order to study flange behavior such as bolt tension, flange stresses, and seal contact. Relatively simple analytical equations have been used in order to predict the flange behavior and hence been basis for choosing bolting material, prestress and flange face angle. For process industry dealing with temperatures up to 720°C, it is now possible to use compact flanges. The use of compact flanged connection will first of all increase the reliability of the flanged connection, reducing the need for maintenance.

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