Monitoring Pipe-Wall Corrosion Rate by Ultrasonic Technique

An important issue in power generation and petrochemical industries is monitoring pipe wall thickness and corrosion/erosion rate. In this thesis, a combination of signal processing techniques are used to estimate the corrosion rate estimates based on MBE. Corrosion rate is estimated based on ultrasonic pipe wall thickness data is collected over a short period of time using MBE model. This technique is based on data collected from the speedometer applied for thinning and both indicate that they were able to estimate the rate of corrosion in short periods of time and with good accuracy.