Plant Integrity Limited

"**Project vision** The Multi-Platform Inspection, Maintenance & Repair in extreme environments (MIMRee) project will introduce a step-change in the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) of offshore wind farms by removing humans from the loop during the inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) of offshore wind turbine blades. The aim is to significantly reduce...

"Offshore wind energy has been instrumental in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and rendering the UK less dependent on imports to cover its energy needs. As such, large investment programmes and favourable legislation have been driving growth in the sector with overall capacity doubling every five years, a trend that is set to continue by 2030. However, ...

Corrosion in pipelines costs the Oil & Gas sector millions of pounds in clean-up, maintenance and litigation. Guided Wave systems are used to conduct long range inspections of pipelines to detect corrosion remotely, particularly in inaccessible areas. There is a requirement from the industry to monitor the health of pipeline infrastructure and a trend tow...

HiTClean addresses a number of related safety critical, security of energy supply, production economic and maintenance challenges in the life cycle of Oil&Gas offshore production installations (e.g. platforms and FPSOs) subsea assets including pipelines and production pressure components. The project will develop novel guided wave ultrasonic technology fo...

RiviT is a collaborative project between leading Aircraft Maintenance Repair & Overhaul companies and NDT equipment specialists to provide a cost-effective solution to investigate the onset of crack propogation at difficult to access doubler repaired aircraft panels. The system will use a niche ultrasonic technique to qualitatively give a rapid indication...

The aim of this project is to develop, and to demonstrate, a novel real-time monitoring system to detect in-service degradation in offshore wind turbine support structures using ultrasonic guided waves. This system uses active sonic/ultrasonic waves to cover the whole volume of concern to detect fatigue cracking at welds, and possibly at other locations, ...

The goal is to achieve nondestructive inspection (NDI) of nuclear power generation and reprocessing plant pipework carrying cooling water or generator steam, along pipe runs that are embedded in concrete, buried underground and/or clad in protective coatings such as plastic or bitumen. Key examples are (i) primary coolant and steamline pipework passing re...

Future generation aircraft will consist mostly of carbon composite materials. The modes of failure in composite intensive aircraft are not fully known as they are still near the beginning of their design life, although it is clear that they are susceptible to internal impact damage, not visible at the surface. Yet current NDI of composites in production a...

Bio-fouling is the unwanted adhesion of biological materials to any wetted surface and it grows continuously in thickness with sustained immersion. Fouling causes severe structural loading on all the submerged components of marine electricity generators, lowers the efficiency of generation and can disable a generator totally through the clogging up of mov...

There are 29,000km of high voltage overhead transmission cables in the UK, operating in severe conditions of heat and cold, moisture, voltage stress, wind induced vibration, overloads and structural fatigue, all of which can cause catastrophic failure. The MOSAIC project aims to prototype a novel method of combined monitoring and enhancement of the struct...

The project aim is the early detection of creep cracking, fatigue cracking and erosion thinning in superheated steamlines in nuclear plants through the use of a continuous structural health monitoring system permanently installed on line pipe work and providing 100% pipe coverage at all times. This system (ULTRASTEAMLINE) will work through the innovative ...

Offshore wind farms are an attractive renewable energy source because they overcome the objections of visual and noise intrusion that apply to onshore wind and the time averaged capacity per turbine rating is higher. However the life cycle costs are much higher and require reduction by some 50% to achieve the levelised costs of onshore wind. A major contr...