A university spin-out and a Scottish Innovation Centre have joined forces to tackle a huge challenge for the oil & gas, nuclear, renewables, and construction industries - how to detect corrosion that’s hidden under insulation.
This new project will explore the use of remote sensors to monitor corrosion continually without the need to physically remove insulation. In the oil & gas industry alone, the cost of monitoring so-called Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI), in assets such as pipelines, is estimated at around £3.5bn annually. Current practice relies…
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