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Park, S.S.;Kim, D.K.;Yoo, H.R.;Cho, S.H.;Park, D.J.;Koo, S.J.;Rho, Y.W.;Lee, J.G.;Hong, H.S.;Seo, J.W.;Park, C.G.
- Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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- 2001.06b
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- pp.222-227
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- 2001
This paper introduces the spring-mounted odometer system which maintains the correct contact with the pipe wall and measures the distance along the pipe. The odometer wheel is designed to keep contact to the pipelines inner wall and to generate fifty rectangular pulses per one turn(l59.5681mm) during pigging. The pipeline has the defects in various types such as buckles, winkles, cracks, dents, welding point and so on. Specially, girth welding points which exist each 12m of the pipeline, much affects the operational environment of the odometer. The measurement error of the distance along the pipe is accumulated, for the measurement error of wheel's circumference and the pipeline inner environment. So, this paper proposes the method for the error compensation based on the analysis of the odometer's behavior around the girth welding point of pipe. The experimental results show that developed odometer system can be used for the intelligent pig with good performances.
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Kim D.K.;Park S.S,;Cho S.H.;Yoo H.R.;Park D.J.;Koo S.J.;Rho Y.W.;Kho Y.T
- Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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- v.6 no.1 s.17
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- pp.17-23
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- 2002
This paper introduces the spring-mounted odometer system which maintains the correct contact with the pipe wall and measures the distance along the pipe. The odometer wheel is designed to keep contact to the pipelines inner wall and to generate fifty rectangular pulses per one turn(159.5681mm) during pigging. The pipeline has the defects in various types such as buckles, winkles, cracks, dents, welding point and so on. Specially girth welding points which exist each 12m of the pipeline, much affects the operational environment of the odometer. The measurement error of the distance along the pipe is accumulated, for the measurement error of wheel's circumference and the pipeline inner environment. So, this paper proposes the method for the error compensation based on the analysis of the odometer's behavior around the girth welding point of pipe. The experimental results show that developed odometer system can be used for the intelligent pig with good performances.
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