By: Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, August 18, 2022
Inspenet, the professional knowledge and connection network, was at the Mechanical Integrity and Inspection Summit 2022 hosted by the American Petroleum Institute (API) in San Antonio, Texas and exclusively interviewed Dr. David Alleyne, PhD. and Eng. Patricia Salas Gómez, both from UK-based Guided Ultrasonics Limited (GUL).
Dr. Alleyne is the CEO and co-founder of GUL, a business partner and world leader in the supply of guided wave pipeline testing equipment, training and services. He holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from Imperial College London, where he conducted research on the exploitation of Lamb waves for NDT of plate structures, followed by pioneering fundamental research on guided wave testing of pipelines.
In addition, he is the author of patents related to guided wave test equipment and was instrumental in the creation of guided wave test methodology, codes, standards and Level 3 certification. It has been the driving force behind the global commercialization of guided wave NDT and monitoring methods and is the recognized world leader in the industrial application of this technology.
In his role as CEO of GUL; Dr. Alleyne leads all aspects of the business and has responsibility for the strategic vision and direction of the company. It has gained a wealth of invaluable experience from partners and customers from all corners of the world, which is reflected in the diverse and talented group of people within GUL and the emphasis placed on teamwork, quality, customer needs and innovation.
“One of the advantages of the high technology developed by GUL is the ease of use by technicians around the world,” explained Dr. Alleyne. “Because of the Covid19 pandemic, new opportunities opened up because more companies need to do the work locally, so, we’re bringing technology to the world, in fact, it’s been better, so we see a lot of opportunities” he added.
“We are interested in digitization for Nondestructive Testing, to incorporate information technology, machine learning and digital platforms into our technology. We’ve been discussing that with some of the larger companies here, about cooperation and working together,” Dr. Alleyne said.
During API’s Mechanical Integrity and Inspection Summit 2022, Dr. Alleyne delivered two lectures; one entitled: “24/7 Large Area Corrosion Monitoring,” where he explained the latest advances combining high-accuracy spot measurement with long-range pipeline shift monitoring using permanently installed sensors. He also gave the lecture, “PHMSA-Compliant Guided Wave Inspection as an Alternative to ILI,” in which he discussed the application of guided wave pipeline and pipeline inspection in a regulatory compliance environment.
For her part, Eng. Salas Gómez, Lead Inspection Engineer at GUL, presented the lecture: “High Resolution Imaging of Corrosion on Pipe Supports”, where he presented a method that efficiently provides accurate measurements of CUPS (Corrosion Under Pipe Supports) profiles.
“I am going to present a paper from our colleague, Dr. Tomasz Piałucha, our Director of Research and Development. He is the person most involved in the development of our tool the Quantitative Short Range scanning (QSR) device. The QSR1®, is the tool that was initially designed for CUPS, especially contact points, and the development that has been done after this initial development, is everything that is artificial intelligence, ‘machine learning’, to improve the analysis of the results that we already had”, explained Salas Gómez.
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