Solutions for safe and efficient pipeline management

With increas­ing oper­a­tional, secu­ri­ty, envi­ron­men­tal and leg­isla­tive require­ments for pipeline oper­a­tors Krohne offers new solu­tions for pipeline man­age­ment: Pipe Patrol is a com­pre­hen­sive suite of soft­ware mod­ules for long or short dis­tance sin­gle and mul­ti­prod­uct pipelines for oil, gas, water, chem­i­cal or refined prod­ucts, and offers mon­i­tor­ing and pro­tec­tion of pipelines in all oper­at­ing conditions.

Pipe Patrol can be sup­plied in var­i­ous con­fig­u­ra­tions: eight mod­ules cov­er leak detec­tion, theft detec­tion, stress mon­i­tor­ing, line break detec­tion, tight­ness mon­i­tor­ing, batch track­ing, pump mon­i­tor­ing and pre­dic­tive mod­el­ing. To match the appli­ca­tion, the mod­ules can be used stand-alone or indi­vid­u­al­ly com­bined, and option­al­ly com­ple­ment­ed by a wide range of instru­men­ta­tion, cyber secu­ri­ty and field data acqui­si­tion sys­tems. Based on over 30 years of expe­ri­ence in pipeline appli­ca­tions, the com­pa­ny also offers engi­neer­ing, oper­a­tion and main­te­nance ser­vices for pipeline man­age­ment such as sup­port dur­ing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion or post theft analy­sis. This mod­u­lar­i­ty offers the pipeline oper­a­tor to achieve best results and meet safe­ty and legal require­ments in line with the appli­ca­tion and the avail­able budget.

The leak detec­tion mod­ule pro­vides the unique Pipe Patrol E‑RTTM based leak detec­tion and local­i­sa­tion for liq­uids and gas­es which is applied on over 350 pipelines world­wide. It is com­ple­ment­ed by the theft detec­tion mod­ule that spe­cialis­es on fast and reli­able iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and local­i­sa­tion of unau­tho­rised or ille­gal prod­uct dis­charges, and the tight­ness mon­i­tor­ing mod­ule to detect small or grad­ual leaks. To effi­cient­ly detect pipeline rup­tures instant­ly the line break detec­tion mod­ule can be applied. It uses a pipeline rup­ture pat­tern recog­ni­tion for auto­mat­ic emer­gency shut­down in case of a line break. The batch track­ing mod­ule for batch and inter­face track­ing in mul­ti-prod­uct pipelines, and the stress mon­i­tor­ing mod­ule for eval­u­a­tion and doc­u­men­ta­tion of life­time stress and remain­ing pipeline ser­vice life com­ple­ment the oper­a­tional mod­ules. The pre­dic­tive mod­el­ing mod­ule fore­casts pipeline oper­a­tion and iden­ti­fies pos­si­ble threats such as short­age in sup­ply or pres­sure vio­la­tions. Its offline sim­u­la­tion then can be used to find cor­rec­tive mea­sures as well as for plan­ning of opti­mized oper­a­tion in the future. In addi­tion, the pump mon­i­tor­ing mod­ule enables pre­dic­tive main­te­nance and high­er sys­tem avail­abil­i­ty by mon­i­tor­ing essen­tial mechan­i­cal, elec­tri­cal, and hydro­dy­nam­ic mea­sure­ment values.