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LONG-RANGE PIPELINE INTEGRITY MONITORING
MS Python’s Pipeline Monitoring System provides our customers with the tools they need to build smarter structures. Our real-time monitoring services deliver continuous infrastructure analysis, offering complete information about the system’s health. Should an event occur, predefined thresholds within the MS Python System instantly triggers a notification to any members you designate to take appropriate action. With our system in place you will have all information to make an informed decision.
In the pipeline transport industry, where liquids such as gas and oil are transported over long distances, maintaining the structural health is extremely critical. Pipelines often exist within hostile environments. Wind, water, and weather events seek to continuously wear them down. Compound that with the ever-present danger of pipelines as a target from malicious attacks, and it becomes clear why customers come to us for our unique monitoring services.
Structural monitoring significantly improves pipeline management and safety by regularly providing system health parameters. This monitoring can help you prevent the failure, detect the problem and its position in time, and undertake maintenance and repair activities.
Typical parameters that we monitor are strain, curvature, temperature distribution, leakage, and third-party intrusion. To provide comprehensive monitoring services for our customers, MS Python combines two different kind of technology: Distributed Temperature Sensors (DTS) and Acoustic Emission (AE) sensing. Depending on the project we can implement these technologies in conjunction or separately based on need.
Our customers agree, with MS Python’s Pipeline Monitoring Services in place, you’ll have all the information you need to make an informed decision.
Get instantaneous feedback on your critical infrastructure from MS Python’s Pipeline Monitoring Services.
Avoid system shutdowns due to time-consuming troubleshooting methods.
Innovative technology provides advanced analytics for leak detection, foreign intrusion, deformation, erosion, ground movement, geologic hazard detection, and pig position tracking.
Implement advanced monitoring services that are directly integrated with your existing SCADA compatible system.
Actively monitor your infrastructure to detect damage before it reaches a critical state.
METHODOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY
By providing two different kinds of technologies, MS Python allows us to offer our customers with comprehensive solutions to achieve the objectives of their project. We will work with you to determine the best implementation for your needs.
MS PYTHON FIBER OPTICS SENSING TECHNOLOGY
Implementing fiber optics sensing technology provides an ultra-stable, continuous sensor over long distances to detect the following:
• Leaks
• 3rd party intrusion
• Pipe deformation Erosion
• Ground movement Erosion
• Pig position
These systems are highly accurate, providing location information in real time following an event. Further, our systems are intelligently designed to filter background noise from specific acoustic noise, so that alarms are only triggered by relevant events.
Through recent developments in technology, our services can provide fiber optic system monitoring along 60 km of pipeline using a single fiber, and extended applications of up to 300 km with the use of optical amplifiers.
Through the innovative MS Gecko Monitoring System (DSHM), a general scheme of connected monitoring parameters, technology, and infrastructure can be offered. Just as each critical event is unique in nature, due to the combination of factors affecting it, our approach to each customer project requires its own unique set of controls and measurements.
We look forward to speaking with you about your monitoring needs!
With the ability to measure temperature and strain over thousands of points along a single fiber, our customers can utilize this essential technology for a wide range of monitoring needs, such as: verifying normal pipeline operation, detecting pipeline leakages, and preventing pipeline failure in landslide prone areas.
Detection services can further be used for optimizing oil well production and detecting hot spots in high-power cables, among other implementations
MS PYTHON ACOUSTIC EMISSION TECHNOLOGY
Acoustic Emission (AE) utilizes wave-sensing technology to alert system operators when material undergoes a change in its internal structure.
An example would be the formation of a crack within an oil pipeline, or plastic deformation due to aging.
MS Python’s monitoring services utilize AE sensing to monitor elastic or stress waves that are generated when an event occurs within or along a material’s surface, and send feedback alerts to key personnel to take action in real-time.
INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING
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