John Musgrave and Ian Moreau, MISTRAS Group, USA, outline the benefits of using proven, innovative automated radiographic testing (ART) technology for pipeline and piping integrity screening. valuating pipeline and piping integrity, particularly on insulated lines, can be a challenging endeavour. Despite the many traditional and advanced techniques and technologies available to integrity and inspection managers, each method typically comes with a downside in the form of high costs, extended time requirements, operational impacts, requirements to strip insulation, and more. Inline inspection (ILI) is typically considered the gold standard for identifying corrosion, but this time, cost, and labour-intensive process comes with a major opportunity cost because it requires pipelines to shut down operations during the inspection, in addition to oftentimes rigorous maintenance requirements to prepare the line for the ILI tool run. Advancements in automated radiographic testing (ART) technology – developed by MISTRAS Group, a One Source provider of asset protection
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