Digital Corrosion Management

Eco Friendly Cost Effective

Preventive Corrosion Management

Observations

CORROSION COSTS:

As pipeline infrastructure is aging, associated corrosion costs are skyrocketing. Corrosion costs in the US is now six times higher than in 2003! (ASCE: "Failure to Act: The Impact of Current Infrastructure Investment on America's Economic Future" 2013).

Some portions of the network are impossible to survey with traditional surface methods. Each leak bears a cost hundreds of thousand dollars and damages both soils and phreatic tables.

There is an economic and ecological emergency to amend corrosion management. And improved techniques are needed to mitigate costs and avoid environmental disasters.

CORROSION COSTS:

Our Solution

Heuristech detects, localizes, characterizes and grades corrosion defects on buried pipelines by using a disruptive technology: Differential Reflectometry Mapping. Using Heuristech technology allows:

To have precise knowledge about your network state.

knowledge

To cut drastically corrosion maintenance costs.

MAINTENANCE COSTS

To be more time and labor efficient than other methods.

TIME & LABOR EFFICIENT

Estimated Excavation Cost Savings in Urban Environment: Above 85%

Early identification

Early identification of corrosion reduces risks and costs of repair.

Accurate location

Accurate location allows to cut excavation costs to a minimum.

maintenance planning

Mitigating the chance of asset failure with optimum maintenance planning.

Increased asset lifetime

with optimum maintenance procedures (reparing coating defects makes the cathodic protection more efficient for the entire network).

coverage mitigation

Comprehensive coverage mitigating chance of missing corrosion (such as CUI & delamination type defects).

Increased asset lifetime

with optimum maintenance procedures (reparing coating defects makes the cathodic protection more efficient for the entire network).

coverage mitigation

Comprehensive coverage mitigating chance of missing corrosion (such as CUI & delamination type defects).

Key Advantages

Operational Use

Heuristech technology only requires electrical access to the pipes: it is very well suited for preventive maintenance and the development of monitoring solutions for pipelines. The urban environment, roads or water ways are no issues for DRM efficiency.

Sensitivity

Heuristech technology sensitivity allows to detect very precisely corrosion sites at an early stage and spare costs of excavation and reparation.

Delamination Detection

Delaminations are the most critical type of coating defects as they hinder cathodic protection efficiency and induce corrosion under isolation (CUI). The only remote detection technology able to detect them is reflectometry.