A pipe wear monitoring system and method of use thereof
Assignee2C Holdings Pty Ltd
InventorsColin Neil EAMES, Corey VAUGHAN
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and method for monitoring wear in pipes, particularly irregular wear in pipelines transporting abrasive fluids. The system includes a plurality of wear sensors spaced along a length of a pipe. Each wear sensor is configured to detect wear in a wall of the pipe. The system further includes at least one remotely accessible server operatively connected to the sensors for receiving and monitoring data output from said sensors. The server is configured to alert an operator when said data received from any one of the plurality of sensors is indicative of irregular wear in the wall of the pipe.
Claims20
A pipe wear monitoring system including:
- at least one base station;
- a plurality of wear sensors spaced along a length of a pipe and operatively connected to the at least one base station, each wear sensor configured to detect wear in a wall of the pipe;
- and
- at least one remotely accessible server operatively connected to the base station for receiving and monitoring data output from said sensors via said at least one base station, said server configured to generate an alert when said data received from any one of the plurality of wear sensors is indicative of irregular wear in the wall of the pipe.
A pipe wear monitoring system including:
- at least one base station;
- a plurality of sensor nodes operatively connected to the at least one base station, each sensor node operatively associated with at least one wear sensor spaced along a length of a pipe and configured to detect wear in a wall of the pipe;
- and
- at least one remotely accessible server operatively connected to the base station for receiving and monitoring data output from said sensors via said sensor nodes, said server configured to generate an alert when said data received from any one of the plurality of wear sensors is indicative of irregular wear in the wall of the pipe.
A wear sensor for use in detecting irregular wear in a wall of a pipe, said sensor including:
- a sacrificial probe configured to be at least partially inserted into an opening defined in an outer surface of a sidewall of a pipe and be at least partially destroyed in response to irregular wear on an inner surface of the pipe, the destruction of the probe being indicative of irregular wear being detected.
A method of monitoring pipe wear including:
- providing a plurality of wear sensors at spaced intervals along a length of a pipe, each sensor being configured to detect wear in a wall of the pipe;
- and
- receiving and monitoring data corresponding to data output from said sensors and generating an alert when data is received from any one of the plurality of wear sensors indicative of irregular wear in the wall of the pipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.