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Furnace Inspection services

Welcome

Agenda
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Who are we
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Our core activities

Where do you find us?

Our program
Applications
Ultrasonic inspection technology
Our strength
HSE & Quality
Our clients

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for the Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Industry

Who are we?

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A.Hak holding was founded in 1963

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450 KK turnover
3500 employees

A.Hak IS was founded in 1988

A.Hak IS has four business units with offices worldwide

A.Hak Industrial Services

B.V.
Industrial
Services

Inspection
Services

Pipeline
Services

Tank
Services

Multiple services, singular solutions

for the Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Industry

Industrial Services

A broad range of nitrogen related services e.g. reactor

cooling, pre-cooling, nitrogen/helium leak detection,
system purging (continues and cycle), furnace tube
cleaning, hot oil flushing, chemical cleaning, air blowing
and consultancy.

Multiple services, singular solutions

for the Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Industry

Inspection Services

Ultrasonic inspection, inspection of non-piggable

pipelines, furnaces, heaters, geometric survey, project
management of inspection operations, consultancy and
pipeline integrity management (PIMS).

Multiple services, singular solutions

for the Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Industry

Pipeline Services

(Pre-) (De-) Commissioning, cleaning, testing, drying,

rehabilitation of pipelines and consultancy.

Multiple services, singular solutions

for the Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Industry

Tank Services

Sludge Profiler, Sludge Recovery, Quick-look and Robotic

Tank bottom inspection.

Multiple services, singular solutions

for the Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Industry

Where do you find us?

Refineries

Tanker
Terminals

Pipelines (loading
lines)

Pipelines (off-shore)

Multiple services, singular solutions

for the Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Industry

Our Program

Inspection of (Non) Ferro (un)piggable pipelines ranging

from 4 till 48 Inch
Pipelines with 1.5D bends
Back to back-, mitre bends and non-barred tees
Independent of wall thickness
Bi-directional Inspection
Online communication with glass-fibre wire
Free swimming module
Own temporary launchers and receivers
Pumping facilities

Multiple services, singular solutions

for the Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Industry

Applications
Multi body
Piglet

Single body Piglet

Furnace Piglet

Wilson Piglet

Push Pull Piglet

Multiple services, singular solutions

for the Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Industry

Ultrasonic inspection technology

The UT-sensor measures the inner and
outer wall pipeline echo reflection. The
Data Acquisition Unit (DAU) translate
the signal in five different on-line
plots.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Wall thickness
Distance center pipe to wall (IR)
Amplitude Signal inner wall reflection
Amplitude Signal outer wall reflection
Ultrasonic signal.

Multiple services, singular solutions

for the Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Industry

Rotating principle

t2
t1

Ultrasonic principle

t2
t2
t1

Pipe wall
t1
Ultrasonic probe

t2 Wall thickness

Motor

Distance
t1 Stand-off signal

Window

Transducer
Distance

2x t
Focussing
Mirror

Pulse-echo, reflections in time

Circumferenti
al grooving

Circumferential slotting

POF Specification Chart

General

low resolution

Standard resolution
Pitting

High Axial
resolution
grooving

Ultra High resolution

pinhole

Axial slotting

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Low resolution
3Tx3T
Standard resolution
2Tx2T
High resolution
1Tx1T
Ultra High resolution 0.5Tx0.5T

Axial & circumferential

resolution
Flow direction

Fixed transducers

Rotating transducer

Axial direction , coverage depending on speed

(Pulse repetition frequency)

Circumferential direction , coverage depending on:

- amount of transducers
- beam spread (depends of crystal diameter/frequency)

Circumferential resolution
with fixed transducers
no overlap

Note: With 50% overlap; Nr. of transducers times 2 !!!

Rotating mirror (focus)

manufacture
calculate mirror

simulate beam profiles

Data Acquisition Unit

On-line inspection data

Test facilities

Test loops +/- 200m: 4, 6, 12, Flanged

Various Mock-up on clients demand
Furnace 4,5, 6 & 8, multiple 1D bends

Multiple services, singular solutions

for the Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Industry