PIG's Speed Estimated with Pressure Transducers and Hall Effect Sensor: An Industrial Application of Sensors to Validate a Testing Laboratory.
| Autor: | Lima GF; Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Rua Antônia de Lima Paiva, 155, Nova Esperança, Parnamirim CEP 59143-455, RN, Brazil. gustavo.lima@ifrn.edu.br., Freitas VCG; Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Rua Antônia de Lima Paiva, 155, Nova Esperança, Parnamirim CEP 59143-455, RN, Brazil. victor.carvalho@ifrn.edu.br., Araújo RP; Departamento de Engenharia de Computação e Automação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Lagoa Nova, Natal, Caixa postal 1524 CEP 59078-970, RN, Brazil. eng.renanpires@gmail.com., Maitelli AL; Departamento de Engenharia de Computação e Automação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Lagoa Nova, Natal, Caixa postal 1524 CEP 59078-970, RN, Brazil. maitelli@dca.ufrn.br., Salazar AO; Departamento de Engenharia de Computação e Automação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Lagoa Nova, Natal, Caixa postal 1524 CEP 59078-970, RN, Brazil. andres@dca.ufrn.br. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) [Sensors (Basel)] 2017 Sep 15; Vol. 17 (9). Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Sep 15. |
| DOI: | 10.3390/s17092119 |
| Abstrakt: | The pipeline inspection using a device called Pipeline Inspection Gauge (PIG) is safe and reliable when the PIG is at low speeds during inspection. We built a Testing Laboratory, containing a testing loop and supervisory system to study speed control techniques for PIGs. The objective of this work is to present and validate the Testing Laboratory, which will allow development of a speed controller for PIGs and solve an existing problem in the oil industry. The experimental methodology used throughout the project is also presented. We installed pressure transducers on pipeline outer walls to detect the PIG's movement and, with data from supervisory, calculated an average speed of 0.43 m/s. At the same time, the electronic board inside the PIG received data from odometer and calculated an average speed of 0.45 m/s. We found an error of 4.44%, which is experimentally acceptable. The results showed that it is possible to successfully build a Testing Laboratory to detect the PIG's passage and estimate its speed. The validation of the Testing Laboratory using data from the odometer and its auxiliary electronic was very successful. Lastly, we hope to develop more research in the oil industry area using this Testing Laboratory. Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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