Piglet – a new robotic solution to lower maintenance costs and improve safety in high pressure gas systems

“在石油和天然气加工领域，高压和/或高温、安全和认证的挑战意味着机器人查看在线基础设施的好处还没有实现。这导致世界各地的许多流程表现不佳，在最佳流速下运行-因此低于运营商的最佳收入。在石油和天然气利润面临压力的时候，关键参与者正在寻找创新的方法来提高现有工厂的性能和收入。乙二醇脱水是从天然气中去除水分的最常见和最经济的方法，其内部存在极端和具有挑战性的环境，在大约50- 200 bar的压力下使用天然气操作。目前没有能够在操作期间检查柱的机器人系统。应识别并快速消除任何堵塞，以保持性能。可能会发生端口堵塞和其他问题，从而降低性能，降低工艺产量和工厂盈利能力。我们的概念是Piglet（对不可清管的管线进行清管），它将为操作员提供实时视频，以真实地了解设施的内部状况。这将提供堵塞、结垢、结蜡或腐蚀的早期警告，这可能会导致系统危险故障和/或涉及潜在危险的人为干预的代价高昂的停机时间。"

"Within oil & gas processing, the challenges of high pressure and or temperature, safety and certification has, until now, meant that the benefits of robotic viewing of online infrastructure has not been available. This results in many processes across the world under-performing, running under optimum flow rates - and therefore below optimum revenues for the operator. At a time when oil & gas profits are under pressure key players are looking for innovative ways to improve performance and revenues from existing plant.Glycol dehydration is the most common and economical means of removing water from natural gas and their interiors present an extreme and challenging environment, operating with natural gas at a pressure of around 50-200bar. There is currently no robotic system capable of inspecting the columns during operation. Any blockages should be identified and quickly removed in order to maintain performance. Blocked ports and other problems can occur that degrade performance, reduce process throughput and plant profitability. Our concept is Piglet (Pigging for un-piggable lines), which will provide a live video feeds to an operator, to give a true picture of the internal condition of the facility. This will provide early warning of plugging, scale, wax or corrosion, which may result in system dangerous failure and/or costly downtime involving potentially hazardous human intervention."