Robotic Inspection System for LNG Tank floors

23rd June Monday 2014- 5:00 to 6:30 Pm

EADS CCQ at QSTP Tech 1 Building, First Floor, Unit 108

Speaker: Dr. Uvais Ahmed Qidwai

Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, Qatar University

Description:- In this presentation, a recently completed

project at Qatar University will be described which was AGENDA
undertaken in order to help the oil and gas industry 5:00 – 5:05 :
solve a bottleneck in industrial inspection of the
Registration and Welcome
LNG/LPG/Condensate tank floors which are not
accessible usually in-service as well as for outside 5:05 - 5:45 :
inspection of these tanks for possible defects. Due to Presentation
the cryogenic nature of the products, even when the
tank is brought to shutdown, it takes very long before 5:45 - 6:00:
the actual NDT inspection would start due to slow Discussion
annealing process in order to bring the temperature in
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the working ranges for human operators to go inside
and perform the necessary inspection. A robotic Refreshments and Networking
inspection system has been built in this work that
performs the same tasks at much lower temperatures 6:30
and hence reduces the shutdown time significantly. Close
The resulting robot has been completely designed
indigenously at Qatar University in a modular fashion to  Access :
achieve the above mentioned tasks. This tethered robot Free of charge but registration
can perform the tank floor inspection using the standard
is preferable via email:
MFL sensing method which is the same technique used
by the human operator. However, with the robot mariam.hamza@eadsccq.com
replacing the human operator to perform the
inspection, the hazards to the operator are eliminated
as well as the subjectivity of the human decision making  Target audience:
is reduced due to robotic inspection technique. While Engineers, Inspectors,
rigorous industrial testing still awaits the necessary managers, Scientists
paperwork and pre-processing, the lab grade tests have interested in system integrity
shown remarkable success and promises to be an and asset management
excellent product in the next phase of the research.  Key benefits : Understanding
of new technology, interaction
with leading practitioners.