Smart
Software for Selection of Steels in Wet H2S Refinery
Service
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System
Info
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The
Strategy-B system is a Microsoft® Windows®-based smart software
tool that provides the end-user with significant benefits in selection
and evaluation of steels, that include:
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Access
to a comprehensive knowledge base containing information about carbon
steels and requirements for HIC/SOHIC and SSC resistant behavior |
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Accurate
characterization of pipeline environments on the basis of environmental
severity |
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Evaluation
of materials on the basis of metallurgical, mechanical and microstructural
parameters |
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Evaluation
of crack growth potential in pipelines as a function of crack morphology
and other relevant crack-growth related parameters |
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Decision-making
capabilities about evaluation of steels and inspection of
pipelines utilizing data and rules from field experience, laboratory
research, literature and domain expertise |
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Perform
risk assessment and obtain a quantitative basis for pipeline
inspection based on risk |
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Ability
to store and retrieve data about materials, environments and crack-growth
through a Microsoft® AccessTM database embedded in
the Strategy system |
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Details
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The Strategy-B system comes equipped with several useful and novel
user-interface modules,
such as, |
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A
Database Manager to independently access and modify system
database |
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Report Module to generate reports in Microsoft® Word |
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A
unique Units' Module that does not restrict users to any one
system of units |
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Data Analyzer Module to evaluate and analyze all materials'
data with one environment and vice versa |
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Comment Module to append user comments to system generated
reports |
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A
rule-base to compute and display system pH |
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of the Strategy-A system results in significant cost and time savings
and provides end users the following benefits: |
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Increased
accuracy and reduced response time for decisions involving wet H2S
refinery materials selection and reliability assessment |
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significant reduction in the time spent by materials specialists in
dealing with routine questions from operations personnel |
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More
uniform and effective decision making from operations personnel without
materials background |
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Reduced
training time for new professionals entering the area |
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A
tool to support rigorous materials evaluation of refinery steels
and understanding different aspects of wet H2S cracking
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