Journal
SENSORS
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 1490-1509Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s130201490
Keywords
Brillouin optical fiber sensor; scour monitoring; subsea pipeline; active thermometry; numerical simulation
Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China [2011CB013702]
- Key Projects in the National Science & Technology Pillar Program during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan Period [2011BAK02B02]
- National Science Foundation of China [5092100]
- 863 programs-National High Technology Research and Development Program [2008AA092701-6]
- Science Fund for Creative Research Groups from the National Science Foundation of China [51221961]
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A scour monitoring system for subsea pipeline based on active thermometry is proposed in this paper. The temperature reading of the proposed system is based on a distributed Brillouin optical fiber sensing technique. A thermal cable acts as the main component of the system, which consists of a heating belt, armored optical fibers and heat-shrinkable tubes which run parallel to the pipeline. The scour-induced free span can be monitored through different heat transfer behaviors of in-water and in-sediment scenarios during heating and cooling processes. Two sets of experiments, including exposing different lengths of the upper surface of the pipeline to water and creating free spans of various lengths, were carried out in laboratory. In both cases, the scour condition was immediately detected by the proposed monitoring system, which confirmed the system is robust and very sensitive. Numerical study of the method was also investigated by using the finite element method (FEM) with ANSYS, resulting in reasonable agreement with the test data. This brand new system provides a promising, low cost, highly precise and flexible approach for scour monitoring of subsea pipelines.
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