Creaform’s 3D Measurement Technologies Help Fuel Sasol’s NDT Strategies – Prioritizing Structural Health of Assets

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Based out of South Africa, with locations in over 30 countries, Sasol sustainably and safely sources, manufacture and market a wide range of chemical and energy products from around the world. – Regional Operations and Asset Services, one of the organization’s operating model entity (OEM), initially used manual data acquisition strategies and techniques, inclusive to conventional 3D profilometry scanners and traditional metrology software to measure active external corrosion on critical piping networks and pressure vessels (as defined in the jurisdictional mandate of the Pressure Equipment Regulations). Alternative data acquisition strategies were identified by Marius Purcell, Team Lead NDT and Nondestructive Testing Level 3 under the working model entity of Sasol Secunda Inspection Authority, it was acknowledged that new 3D measurement technique, providing specific imaging and measurement technology for piping components, and custom pressure vessel equipment, were required to promote integrity assessments. The main criterion identified by Purcell, M were as follow: • Ease of operability and the utilization of hardware and software architectures • Quantifiable strategies whilst assets are live in the production network, where skin temperatures are equal or larger than 300°C (as a benchmark value) Sasol SA Ops. The data acquisition that took place over the surface area of the respective flawed specimen samples was evaluated at ambient processing conditions and at the proposed elevated skin temperatures of 300°C.

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