Validation for Flaw Acceptance of Mechanical Damage to Low Stress Natural Gas Pipelines

The ability to discriminate flaws that do and do not affect pipeline integrity is important for low stress pipelines which are subject to new Department of Transportation (DOT) pipeline integrity management regulations. Current federal regulations do not provide guidance on the need to repair mechanical damage to low stress pipelines. The objective of this research is to demonstrate that flaw acceptance criteria normally applied to high stress pipelines are overly conservative and may be relaxed for low stress pipelines.

• Record URL:
  http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/matrix/prjHome.rdm?prj=257
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Program Information: Pipeline Safety Research, Pipeline Safety

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $381306.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTPH56-08-T-000023

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

  U.S. Department of Transportation
  East Building, 2nd Floor 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Kieba, Max

• Performing Organizations:

  Operations Technology Development NFP

  1700 South Mount Prospect Road
  Des Plaines, IL  United States  60018
• Principal Investigators:

  Droessler, Maureen

• Start Date: 20080815
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20120111
• Source Data: RiP Project 35394

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Acceptance tests; Defects; Natural gas pipelines; Tolerances (Engineering); Validation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Pipeline integrity management
• Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; Pipelines;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01494436
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: DTPH56-08-T-000023
• Files: RIP
• Created Date: Sep 26 2013 1:01AM