Designed for:

• Seamless, welded, and upset pipes
• Carbon, Stainless, and 13% Chrome pipes
• OD range: 67mm (2 5/8") to 508mm (20")
• WT range: 3mm (1/8") to 51mm (2")
• References:
  
  • Longitudinal (L), transverse (T), oblique 11°/22°/45°/68°(O),
  • Lamination (LAM) and wall thickness (WT) measurement

System Key Features

The main characteristics of the Olympus rotating pipe inspection system are:

High Productivity

• Large mechanical scan overlap covering up to 120 mm/r.
• Versatile system quickly reconfigurable to different inspection configurations:
  
  • Fast mechanical changeover time.
  • Quick access to predefined inspection setups.
  • Software wizard tool to create new inspection setup.
• Multiple parallel firing to simultaneously inspect at different positions on pipe:
  • Up to 4 apertures per phased array probe.

Quality

• Multiple defect types inspection capability (L, T, O, and LAM) and wall thickness (WT) measurements.
• Unique cluster/water wedge (WW) concept allowing:
  • Many degrees of freedom (DOF) in order to follow pipe movement.
  • Perfect coupling, even with important straightness variations.
• Mechanical and acoustic design leaving only small untested tube ends.
• Automatic calibration per channel providing the highest documented repeatability in the industry with detailed data reporting.
• High sensitivity on small reference defects with an SNR greater than 12 dB.
• Fulfills testing regulations such as API-5CT and API-5L.
• Qualified by the most important oil companies in the world (Exxon-Mobil, Shell, BP, and Chevron).

User Friendly

• Easy interpretation of the inspection results using real-time strip-chart displays.
• Easy and fast mechanical reconfiguration between two pipe sizes.
• Detailed alarms and data reporting.
• Supervisor software that:
  
  • Merges and archives inspection data in one common database.
  • Centralizes inspection results and real-time displays on a single work station.
• DCOM exchange protocol for easy interface with customer level 2 production-line systems.