Non Invasive Inspections Technologies

Manchester United Football Ground, Old Trafford, Manchester

14 March 2019
Download event brochure

Booking multiple places or on behalf of someone else? Contact Event Enquiries on +44(0)20 7973 1251 or email eventenquiries@imeche.org

Overview

There is an increasing need and desire in industry to utilise new and novel technology relating to the performance of inspection of pressure equipment. This relates to the performance of, for example, remote visual inspections rather than the development of new NDT technology.

Inspection managers need to have safer methods of performing inspection of pressure equipment, often in hazardous environments, and are increasingly looking to automated and remote methods involving drones, free swimming devices, crawlers and other non-invasive methods.

With this in mind, the Non Invasive Inspections Technologies seminar will provide all engineers and safety professionals with a thorough technical overview of state of the art equipment to carry out inspections. Hear case study presentations from site operators and learn the lessons for inspecting previously inaccessible areas while balancing need for safety and reduced costs.

Confirmed speakers include:

David Glass, Mechanical Engineering Team Leader, HSE
Gary Robinson, Senior Engineer - Pressure Systems, SSE
Frank Van Bockel, Commercialisation & Compliance Consultancy Manager, Lloyd’s Register
Stuart Turner, Lead Engineer Pressure Systems, BOC

Plus: hear from Doosan Babcock, Wood Plc, University of Strathclyde and more.

Key topics in 2019 include:

How do new remote technologies compare to traditional NDT methods?
Guidance on current regulation from Health and Safety Executive and EEMUA
Technical overview of solutions, including drones, crawlers and swimmers
Assessing your site's unique inspection requirements
Successful implementations that reduce cost and increasing safety
Case studies from industry, including Power, Petrochemical and Oil & Gas sectors
Overcoming barriers to the adoption of new technologies

Why is it important to attend?:

"The risk to personnel is high when undertaking internal inspection is boilers and pressure vessels for statutory inspections or maintenance. NII technologies reduce this risk and follow the principals of ALARP. The costs are outweighed by the information gained without having to undertake costly internal inspections. However, the results from these inspections need to be validated and substantiated prior to being accepted as a replacement for internal invasive inspections."

Edward Anderson, Senior Engineer - Pressure Vessels and Piping, Sellafield Ltd

"Acknowledgement of the limitations and promises of NDT techniques and the associated difficulties in implementation between Lab/research and deployment at site. Realisation that building FFS / ECA on NDT results without knowledge of the limitations/refinement is a dangerous predicament."

Gary Robinson: Senior Pressure Systems Engineer, SSE

Co-Located with: Non Destructive Testing 2019

Gain a clear overview of the current techniques and technologies available for safe and compliant non destructive testing. Attendees will also understand the results of the latest research and the practical outcomes for ongoing testing and inspections.

This is an essential event for all those involved in NDT to bridge the gap between current best practice and future applications to achieve faster, more accurate and cost-effective testing: full event details and registration available now!

Upgrade your event experience: access both events and join the sessions most relevant to your requirements!

Previous seminar attendees include:

ABB Limited Air Products Plc Atkins BAE Systems CCFE Fusion Branch Costain Oil Gas & Process Ltd Coventry University Cranfield University Frazer Nash Consultancy Ltd GE Power GKN Aerospace Health and Safety Executive Hydratight Jaguar Land Rover National Composites Centre Oceaneering International Services Ltd Office for Nuclear Regulation	Petroineos PFL Engineering Services Ltd QinetiQ RAK Inspection Services Rolls Royce Marine Power Rolls-Royce Plc SABIC UK Petrochemicals Ltd Sellafield Ltd Severn Trent Water Ltd Sheffield University The Manufacturing Tech Centre TWI Ltd UKAEA Uniper UK Ltd University of Southampton University of Surrey WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff

Feedback from previous events:

"An interesting event covering diverse inspection problems and solutions"
Lead NDE Specialist, Lloyds Register Marine & Offshore

"Well organised and well prepared."
BAE Systems

"Well-organised event, good cross-section of relevant disciplines represented, some excellent presentations and enthusiastic discussions."
NDT Technical Authority, Doosan Babcock

"The IMechE NDT event was formed of incredibly well-rounded, interesting and engaging sessions, providing the chance to hear from and talk to many of the big players in the NDT industry."
NDE and Aircraft Health Management Engineer, QinetiQ

"Great informative event - with a varied range of speakers."
HSE Mechanical Specialist Inspector, HSE

"A well organised event giving broad information about emerging techniques in the field of NDT”
Head of Inspection and Assurance Services, Sellafield Ltd

"Excellent opportunity to meet and listen to industry-leading experts in the field of NDT."
Senior Corrosion Engineer

Booking multiple places or on behalf of someone else? Contact Event Enquiries on +44(0)20 7973 1251 or email eventenquiries@imeche.org

Accommodation:

AC Hotel Manchester Salford Quays
17 – 19 Trafford Road, Manchester, Lancashire, M5 3AW

The best rate available is £119.00 B&B for single occupancy rooms, please contact Elin Rees Williams, Groups, Meetings & Events Sales Executive on elinrees.williams@acmanchester.com +44 161 868 1164

Hotel Football Old Trafford
99 Sir Matt Busby Way, Stretford, Manchester M16 0SZ

The best rate available is £159.00 inclusive of VAT and full English breakfast, please contact Dawn on 0161 751 0433 or dawn@hotelfootball.com quoting "IM2" to make your booking.

Day 1

08:30 - Agenda

08:30	REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
09:00	CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS Paul Smith, Consultant, Wood plc
09.10	REVIEW OF NON-INVASIVE INSPECTION TECHNOLOGY Fraser Hardie, Manager-Special NDT Techniques, Doosan Babcock · The development of the NII (Non Invasive Inspection) methodology · Review of NII techniques, their capabilities and limitations · Putting NII into practice
	DEVELOPING IN THE LABORATORY: WHAT’S JUST OVER THE HORIZON
09.40	RESEARCH ADVANCEMENTS IN REMOTE AND AUTOMATED NDT Gordon Dobie, Lecturer in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde · Overview of the Research Centre for Non-Destructive Evaluation and the CUE Robotics Team. · Developments with respect to NDT at the point of manufacture and in-situ. · Novel crawler, pipe and aerial inspection systems
10:05	THE CHANGING FACE OF EXAMINATION – REGULATORY CONSIDERATIONS David Glass, Mechanical Engineering Team Leader, HSE · Understanding the entire risk profile · Assuring competence in operation The importance of validation
10:30	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
10:45	Networking refreshment break
	CONFIDENCE IN THE RESULTS
11:15	REMEMBERING THE OPERATOR IN REMOTE OPERATIONS Rachel Cummings, Principal Human Factors Consultant, Wood plc · Integrating Human Factors into multidisciplinary design projects · Understanding the end user and their requirements · The importance of trials and an iterative design approach
11:40	HUMAN FACTORS IMPLICATIONS FOR NII Bernard McGrath, Operations Manager MID & MCRL, Wood plc · The factors that influence reliability · The latest HF developments · Practical applications
12:05	GAINING CONFIDENCE FROM REMOTE INSPECTIONS Frank Van Bockel, Commercialisation & Compliance Consultancy Manager, Lloyd’s Register · Improving quality and safety through new functionalities of live streaming, drones and other camera technology · The adaptation of live streaming of visual imaging: exploring the capabilities of these technologies in business sectors · Regulatory barriers in the adoption of new technologies: relationship between technology exploration and standards
12:30	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
12:45	NETWORKING LUNCH
	CHAIR Simon Emeny, Director - Low Carbon Assurance Services, Lloyd's Register
	INDUSTRY CASE STUDIES
13:45	RVI (REMOTE VISUAL INSPECTION)USING SUBMERSIBLE ROV (REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE) OF DEMINERALISED WATER TANKS Gary Robinson, Senior Engineer - Pressure Systems, SSE · Justification of deployment – records and appropriateness of deployment · Validation of technique · Accuracy and reliability of results
14:10	IMPLEMENTATION OF A DRONE INSPECTION SYSTEM Stuart Turner, Lead Engineer Pressure Systems, BOC · Development of policies and procedures · Implementation and execution · Validation of techniques
14:35	EXPERIENCE WITH NII IN PLACE OF IVI FOR PRESSURE VESSELS Campbell McKee, Senior Engineering Consultant, Sonomatic
15:00	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
15:15	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
	LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FUTURE
15:45	PANEL DISCUSSION: WHERE DOES THE INDUSTRY GO FROM HERE? David Glass, Mechanical Engineering Team Leader, HSE Gordon Dobie, Lecturer, University of Strathclyde Gary Robinson, Senior Engineer - Pressure Systems, SSE Stuart Turner, Lead Engineer Pressure Systems, BOC Campbell McKee, Senior Engineering Consultant, Sonomatic · What to do as an industry going forwards What is the industry need? What needs to be fed back What do the NDT suppliers need to be working · What if there is no access
16:45	CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS
17:00	END OF SEMINAR

Gary Robinson: Senior Pressure Systems Engineer, SSE

Gary provides the mechanical integrity role within SSE wholesale business for Generation and Gas Storage. Gary is heavily involved in the development of “Schemes of inspection” for non-PSSR plant and “Written Scheme of Examinations” under PSSR. Gary spent majority of his career working on Upper Tier establishments (Cryogenic LNG storage, Salt Cavern gas storage) in the mechanical integrity field. Undertaking turnkey projects and development of Risk Based Inspection approaches across the sites and into his current role. Deployment of RVI / ROV have fallen within Gary’s remit under his challenge to sites to deploy reliable validated NDT techniques.

David Glass: Mechanical Engineering Team Leader, Health and Safety Executive

Principal Specialist Inspector with HSE, and head of a team of professional Mechanical Engineers within the Chemical, Explosives and Microbiological Hazards Division, a team responsible for managing research, informing policy and issues relating to onshore Asset Integrity. In addition, David and the team visit various hazardous installations throughout the UK, scrutinising arrangements for integrity management, maintenance and other mechanical engineering issues. Prior to joining HSE in 2005, David worked for fifteen years for multi-national companies in the batch chemical industry, at locations in the UK and USA. David is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Gordon Dobie: Lecturer in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde

Dr Gordon Dobie is an academic in Electronic & Electrical Engineering (EEE) at Strathclyde University. He has 12 years’ experience in the field of automated structural inspection and has 30+ publications encompassing robotics, sensor design, data processing and sensor fusion. He has a strong track record in industry engagement, and has secured a number of Innovate UK projects including a recent collaborative R&D project with National Nuclear Laboratories and Sellafield Sites. His PhD work, sponsored through RCNDE, led directly to an onsite robotics inspection of a critical path reprocessing vessel at Sellafield (part of Magnox reprocessing), and he worked extensively with the NNL team at Workington Laboratories to prove the technology prior to on-site deployment at Sellafield. He has licensed key parts of mobile robotics technology to SME members of RCNDE, to be deployed on automated corrosion mapping systems for petrochemical storage applications.

Frank Van Bockel: Commercialisation & Compliance Consultancy Manager, Lloyd’s Register

With over 10 years with Lloyd’s Register in different roles both commercial and operational, Frank van Bockel is now Head of commercialisation of the Business Assurance & Inspection Service business stream. Within this role he is working with a small, global team, exploring new technologies and how it could be used for assurance and inspection services. Amongst the technologies is remote but also: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Blockchain, Additive Manufacturing, Artificial intelligence, etc. Frank has a degree in Chemical Engineering and prior to joining LR, he worked in several commercial roles for 3M Company.

Stuart Turner: Leading Engineer Pressure Systems, BOC

Stuart currently works for BOC acting as Leading engineer pressure systems for the onsites business. Stuart holds numerous Technical Authority roles within the business and has experience of deployment of drone inspections on industrial plant and equipment within the industrial gasses, power and oil/Gas industries. Stuart is responsible for the development of asset integrity strategies for the business to ensure safe, reliable and efficient operation of equipment under the remit of his technical authority roles and is experienced in the implementation of such strategies.

Fraser Hardie: Manager-Special NDT, Doosan Babcock

Fraser Hardie joined Babcock in 1984 as an NDT Technician. He was heavily involved in the Sizewell B manufacturing programme, specialising in the ultrasonic examination of austenitic welds. He was lead NDT engineer on a variety of NDT developments from the 1980s through the 2000s, including a series of projects aimed at developing NII techniques and methodologies. He now manages the non-nuclear NDT team at Doosan Babcock’s Technology Centre in Renfrew as well as fulfilling his role as the company’s Technical Authority for NDT.

Bernard McGrath: Operations Manager MID & MCRL, Wood plc

Bernard McGrath is the Operations Manager for Wood’s Inspection and Materials Testing teams based at Birchwood Park, Warrington. The Monitoring and Inspection Design (MID) team are development engineers and physicists who undertake research, development and design projects. The team have expertise in the production of Inspection Qualification evidence and documents. Bernard started his NDT career at the NDT Applications Centre of the CEGB, working initially on Austenitics ultrasonic testing and then in the Short Term developments team, providing inspections solutions for conventional power plant. With the exception of a number of years providing Technology Transfer and Innovation support to SMEs, Bernard has spent his career in the assessment and application of NDT, particularly ultrasonics. He has developed expertise in the Reliability and Human Factors of NDT through the delivery of the PANI reliability projects on behalf of the UK’s Health & Safety Executive (HSE) and the oversight of the production of a number of NDT Guidance Documents. He provided input to a framework for the ageing management of nuclear chemical plant published by the HSE. He is a Fellow of the British Institute of NDT (BINDT) and a member of the Education and Professional Development Committee.

Edward Anderson: Senior Engineer -Pressure Vessels and Piping, Sellafield Ltd

Edward is the Site Pressure Systems Senior Engineer for Sellafield Limited, based full time on site and working for Engineering Design Capability in Risley.

He is a Chartered Engineer who is involved the management of repairs and defect rectification on Pressure Vessels, tanks and piping systems. Edward is involved with the BSI for the Design Code ISO 24817 which is used for complex composite repairs.

Edward has previously been extensively involved in submarine nuclear propulsion, power generation and inspections of Nuclear Power stations. He was responsible as the competent person for Calder Hall during its operational life and design verification with Zurich Risk Services prior to joining Sellafield Limited.

He believes that coded composite repairs using a ‘Fit For Purpose’ (FFP) process is the way of delivering complex solutions for extending the life of systems; this will make substantial savings on operational costs and reduce dose uptake. He shares the composite design process through forums and presentations which can lead to excellent returns on investment for operating units.

Rachel Cummings: Principal Human Factors Consultant, Wood Group PLC

Rachel Cummings is a Principal Human Factors Consultant at Wood. She is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Chartered Ergonomist with Human Factors experience in the nuclear industry. Rachel’s expertise is in Human Factors Engineering and Integration, working with multidiscipline design teams to support identification of design issues that could impact human performance. Rachel has been integrated into remote operations projects to consider optimising human performance and minimising the potential for operator error.

Event Registration Enquiries: Event Enquiries

T: +44 (0)20 7973 1251 E: eventenquiries@imeche.org

Exhibition & Sponsorship Opportunities: Daniel Anglin

T: +44 (0)77 3439 5273 E: daniel.anglin@imeche.org

Alternatively, visit the frequently asked questions (FAQs) page.

This event has ended

Ticket type
Price
VAT
Total

There are currently no tickets available.

Booking multiple tickets or on behalf of someone else? Please email eventenquiries@imeche.org or call +44 (0)207 973 1251.

Events Basket (0)

Event Partners

Supporting Organisations

Sponsor this event