Several of Emerging Technological Developments, Innovation and Implementation Case for Pipelines

Considering “Pipeline Industry’s Need of the Hour - Self Reliance and Emerging Technology Trends” as theme of pipeline conference, my submission of paper is on several use cases on technology and innovation for pipeline’s different life cycle phases. There are continual developments in pipeline industry and several of technologies were successfully implemented or under consideration phase for implementation for pipeline industry. In all phases of pipeline lifecycle of material management, project implementation as well in Operation & Maintenance (O&M) of pipeline. Several technological changes as well several of innovations in existing systems are of extensive use for enhancing pipeline safety, reliability, monitoring system as well ease of operations and maintenance. Many of systems been used for other purposes and are of great use for pipelines. This paper discusses on few of such technologies and their implementation for pipelines.

A PROBLEM OF PILES STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY ANALYSIS ON THE STABILITY CRITERION IN PERMAFROST REGIONS

The increase in the rate of global warming directly affects the safety of buildings and structures on permafrost. The research presents the problem of reliability analysis for piles on permafrost soils by the stability criterion under the action of tangential forces of frost heaving. The two groups of piles reliability analysis methods are developed: for complete and limited statistical data about random variables in the models of limit states. Approximations of the dependences of the design resistances of permafrost soils to the shear along the freezing surface on the temperature are proposed. It can be used to estimate the freezing force that keeps the pile from buckling. The method for reliability monitoring and durability forecasting has been developed for piles on permafrost soils. The proposed method makes it possible to reasonably reduce the cost of reliability analysis in the initial periods, which can increase the number of buildings and structures being inspected by the similar costs.

Reliability Monitoring of Laser Scanner Based Navigation

Autonomous guided vehicles have great advantages over rigidly track-guided conveyor technology, as they can react flexibly to changes in the application area. Temporary obstacles can be easily avoided. The vehicles can circumnavigate bottlenecks and areas at risk of congestion switch to alternative routes. To avoid accidents, safety-relevant position detection is necessary in many areas. The current speed is derived from this driven trajectory and this is safely reduced in the working areas. Minimum distances can also be safely maintained. Therefore it is necessary to permanently control the measured position with regard to disturbance variables and to monitor the reliability of the position detection in real time.