APPLICATION INSIGHT | Optimising the Management and Maintenance of Buried Tailing Lines
Ionix EchoCorr™ is a non-intrusive ultrasonic thickness monitoring system for buried lines suitable for the mining, chemical and oil and gas industries:
- For users of buried lines susceptible to erosion, wear and corrosion;
- Who Want to detect changes in the condition of buried lines without excavating the line;
- So that they can reduce outages and the environmental costs of loss of containment.
Unlike manual inspection and guided wave Ionix EchoCorr™ can detect changes in wall loss rates without excavation of the lines to guide maintenance and maintain asset integrity.
Wall Thickness Trending Requires High Precision and High Frequency Thickness Measurements
High Precision Thickness Measurements
Installed HotSense™ ultrasonic transducers
- Non-invasive installation to outside of hoppers, chutes, pipes and vessels
- Robust installation without modification of asset
High Frequency Data Collection from HotSense Transducers
- Automated, Wireless, Battery Powered
- High frequency data collection direct to server or control room
- Low cost
- Manual data collection from cabinet in safe area
Wall Thickness Trends Optimise Asset and Process Management
Data collection, trending and control Software – WAMP
Track wall loss rates, detect changes and see into the future
- Understand current wall loss rates to feed maintenance planning
- Detect changes and relate to process conditions
- Extrapolate trends to predict impact of changes on asset condition
Optimise Decision Making
- Predict maintenance intervals to order replacements and avoid un-planned shutdowns
- Optimise process conditions to minimize wear and reduce outages
Ready to Deploy to Support Current Maintenance Strategies
Flexible data access and integration
Get trending data now!
- Data collection on-premise or remote server
- No internet or cloud required (cloud option available)
- Data in standalone server or integrated into control systems
- Fully contained Field Deployment Kit can be deployed in under an hour
Implement alongside current inspections
- Complements traditional NDT inspections
- Integrate with current integrity data
- Provide wider access to wall thickness data
