engineering
The Atomium: Icon of materials engineering and its preservation over time
The Atomium’s conservation challenges and its relevance as an icon of materials engineering are analysed.
November 1, 2024
Publications of Yolanda Reyes
non destructive testing
Revolutionize Safety: Non-Destructive Testing for Industry Systems
Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) is key to guaranteeing the quality of metallic materials used in industries: industrial pressure vessel plants, petrochemical plants, power or nuclear power plants, maritime structures, metal structures, bridges and civil works.
October 5, 2022
non destructive testing
Testek: Reliable solutions in penetrating liquid NDT with Crack 1, Crack 2 and Crack 3 from WhaleSpray.
The Testek Group provides NDT professionals, engineers and technical inspectors with a variety of consumable chemical products: WhaleSpray Crack 1, Crack 2 and Crack 3, developed and tested to maximize test reliability, covering each and every of the needs of dye penetrant inspection professionals.
September 21, 2022
corrosion and materials
The ECDA methodology for pipelines (NACE SP0502) in the oil industry
Author: Ph.D. Orlando Salas, September 12, 2022.
The External Corrosion Direct Assessment (ECDA) methodology, proposed in the NACE SP0502 Pipeline External Corrosion Direct Assessment Methodology standard, represents an option for pipeline sections that cannot be inspected with smart pigs for reasons such as: low flows, no provision of launch traps, obstructions in the line, changes in diameter, among others
September 12, 2022
new energies
Antarctica Transforms: Climate Change Turns Ice to Green
Antarctica began to disappear between about 30 and 40 years ago.
Under the ice of Antarctica there is solid land, an entire continent that we can barely glimpse from scientific bases. However, what is under that white layer and how vulnerable it is to climate change is now known with greater precision.
September 2, 2022
codes and standards
Asset Integrity! Integrity Operation Scenario (IOW) API RP 584
This article aims to expose the importance of API 584 Recommended Practice (PR), in order to help owners of industrial facilities to generate, establish, monitor and maintain a program or Integrity Operations Scenario (IOW for its acronym) for each vulnerable unit and piece of equipment in your facility.
August 17, 2022
oil & gas
In-Depth Insights into Oil & Gas: Upstream, Midstream, Downstream
Author. Ph.D. Yolanda Reyes, August 15, 2022.
The value links that correspond to the set of economic and administrative activities of the oil industry related to: Exploration, exploitation/production, conditioning and basic distribution; which are made up of the regulation and administration of these activities. In this article, the integral stages of the oil and gas sector will be exposed from the administrative point of view: upstream, midstream and downstream.
August 15, 2022
