Common Framework for Risk-Based Optimization of Gas Pipeline Integrity Inspections

JANA是一家领先的天然气输配管道咨询和软件解决方案提供商。JANA的主要专业领域包括管道完整性管理、资产管理和价值链风险评估。JANA是管道完整性管理研究的前沿，拥有最先进的定量概率和机械概率风险模型。JANA的公司总部位于安大略的奥罗拉市。天然气输送和分配管道由许多部分组成，为了确保安全可靠的运行和防止事故发生，所有这些部分都必须经常进行检查。这些部件或资产中的每一个都要经过特定的检查和维护程序。虽然风险评估是在单个资产级别进行的，但不同的资产有不同的规格、单独的检查和维护计划。上面列出的检查可能会相互影响。目前，对于不同的子系统和检测程序，还没有一个通用的基于风险的检测框架，这使得很难以最小的成本制定最优的检测策略。拟议的研究将着眼于资产级检查方法，并确定是否可以在整个管道系统范围内开发一个通用平台。其目标是构建一个基于风险的不同资产的检测优化框架，以便为不同的资产和/或检测程序提供一个通用的检测优化平台。这将大大方便分析，减少时间和成本，从而为客户节省资金，提高管道的可靠性。

JANA is a leading provider of consultancy and software solutions for gas transmission and distributionpipelines. JANA's key areas of expertise include pipeline integrity management, asset management and valuechain risk assessment. JANA is at the forefront of research in pipeline integrity management with theirstate-of-the-art quantitative probabilistic and mechanistic-probabilistic risk models. JANA's corporate headoffice is located in Aurora, Ontario.Gas transmission and distribution pipelines consist of many parts, all of which have to be inspected fromtime-to-time in order to ensure safe and reliable operation and prevent accidents. Each of these parts, or assets,is subject to specific inspection and maintenance programs. While the risk assessment is taking place atindividual asset level, different assets have different specifications, individual inspection and maintenanceprograms.The inspections listed above may have some interaction with one another. Currently, there is no commonrisk-based inspection framework for different subsystems and inspection programs, which makes it difficult toenact an optimal inspection policy with minimal costs. The proposed research would look at the asset-levelinspection methods and determine if a common platform could be developed across the spectrum of pipelinesystems. The goal is to construct a risk-based framework for inspection optimization of different assets in orderto provide a common inspection optimization platform for different assets and/or inspection programs. Thiswould greatly facilitate the analysis, reduce time and costs, thus resulting in savings to the clients and improvedreliability of the pipelines.