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Pipeline Risk Assessment and Risk-Informed Pipeline Maintenance
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Pipeline Risk Assessment and Risk-Informed Pipeline Maintenance

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2024 | Viewed by 982

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Changqing Gong

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School of Ocean Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai Campus, Shandong 264333, China
Interests: structural reliability; risk assessment; risk-informed pipeline maintenance

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Corrosion is a major threat to the safety of oil and gas transmission pipelines. Risk-based fitness-for-service assessments play an increasingly active role in developing cost-effective life cycle inspection and repair strategies for highly pressurized pipelines containing corrosion defects. Despite the notable research development in this perspective in recent years, there is still a significant gap between academic research and industrial application for both piggable and unpiggable pipelines in terms of probabilistic corrosion growth prediction, efficient reliability assessment, inspection and repair decision making under uncertainty, and pipeline risk acceptance. To better support risk-based pipeline integrity management, this Special Issue seeks to collect technical papers on the recent advances in and future directions of practical pipeline corrosion risk management methods. The Special Issue is dedicated, but not limited to, the following topics:

  • Pipeline corrosion growth prediction;
  • Data-driven pipeline risk;
  • Pipeline structural reliability;
  • Optimal inline inspection interval;
  • Risk-based pipeline maintenance prioritization.

Dr. Changqing Gong
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • transmission pipelines
  • distribution pipelines
  • pipeline corrosion assessment
  • pipeline reliability
  • risk-based pipeline maintenance

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Design and Material Optimization of Oil Plant Piping Structure for Mitigating Erosion Wear
by Jun-Hyuk Ahn, Rabea Asif, Heon-Woo Lee, In-Ju Hwang and Jong-Wan Hu
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(12), 5234; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14125234 (registering DOI) - 17 Jun 2024
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Erosion in piping structures poses a significant challenge for oil industries as the conveyance of solid particles leads to operational malfunctions and structural failures affecting the overall oil plant operation. Conventional oil recovery methods have historically dominated, while in response to the challenges [...] Read more.
Erosion in piping structures poses a significant challenge for oil industries as the conveyance of solid particles leads to operational malfunctions and structural failures affecting the overall oil plant operation. Conventional oil recovery methods have historically dominated, while in response to the challenges imposed by declining conventional oil production, the global shift towards non-conventional methods necessitates a reevaluation of erosion mitigation strategies due to increased piping infrastructure. Therefore, in this study research has been conducted to reduce erosion and optimize the piping structure. Variables impacting the erosion in piping were investigated from the literature, and simulation cases were made based on the impacted variables. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFDs) analysis was performed using the Discrete Phase Model (DPM) to determine the erosion wear rate in each simulation case; based on the CFD results, variables with low Turbulent Dissipation Rates (TDRs) and Erosion Rates (ERs) were determined, and the optimized piping structure was designed. As a result, the optimized piping structure showed an 80% reduction in the turbulent dissipation rate and a 99.2% decrease in the erosion wear rate. These findings highlight a substantial improvement in erosion control, ensuring the safety and longevity of piping structures in oil plant operations. Full article
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Safety Analysis and Condition Assessment of Corroded Energy Pipelines under Landslide Disasters
by Peng Zhang, Wei Liu, Siming Liu, Tian Xu, Yimiao Li and Yunfei Huang
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(23), 12880; https://doi.org/10.3390/app132312880 - 30 Nov 2023
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Corrosion poses a significant risk to the safety of energy pipelines, while landslide disasters emerge as the primary threat responsible for triggering pipeline failures across mountainous areas. To date, there is limited research focused on the safety of energy pipelines considering the synergistic [...] Read more.
Corrosion poses a significant risk to the safety of energy pipelines, while landslide disasters emerge as the primary threat responsible for triggering pipeline failures across mountainous areas. To date, there is limited research focused on the safety of energy pipelines considering the synergistic effect of corrosion and landslides. The present study proposes a finite element (FE)-based model to assess the condition of corroded pipelines under landslides. The effects of corrosion dimensions (length and depth) and location are determined. A novel equation is finally developed to predict the maximum stress and determine the most disadvantageous position for corroded pipelines under various landslide displacements. The results demonstrate that (1) as the landslide progresses, the pipeline’s stress significantly increases; (2) corrosion depth has a more significant impact on the pipeline condition than the corrosion length, and it is positively correlated with the pipe’s stress; (3) the maximum stress exhibits a nonlinear relationship with the landslide-facing position and the corrosion circumferential location; and (4) when the axial position of the corrosion is more than 6.5 m away from the center of the landslide, the location of maximum stress shifts from the corrosion region to the central section of the pipeline within the landslide. This work contributes to helping pipeline owners to understand the applicability of energy pipelines subjected to the combined effects of corrosion and landslides and provides support for future risk assessment efforts in pipeline integrity management. Full article
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