This Keynote Paper is written to help plant sites wishing to implement Risk Based Inspection (RBI) for the first time to enhance their equipment integrity management practice as well as for those plant sites not satisfied with their existing Risk Based Inspection (RBI) process at site and considering a change. It is also considered of immense value for plant sites wishing to set up a Risk Based...

this paper presents a new methodology for the automated inspection of pipes. standard inspection systems are based on closed-circuit television cameras which are mounted on remotely controlled robots and connected to remote video recording devices. the main problems of such camera-based inspection systems are: 1) the lack of visibility in the interior of the pipes and 2) the poor quality of the...