Dapeng Zhang¹, Bowen Zhao^2,*, Keqiang Zhu³

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.19, No.3, pp. 603-617, 2023, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2022.023919 - 29 September 2022

Abstract Pipelines are widely used for transporting oil resources in the context of offshore oil exploitation. The pipeline stress-strength analysis is an important stage in related design and ensuing construction techniques. In this study, assuming representative work environment parameters, pipeline lifting operations are investigated numerically. More specifically, a time-domain coupled dynamic analysis method is used to conduct a hydrodynamic analysis under different current velocities and wave heights. The results show that proper operation requires the lifting points are reasonably set in combination with the length of the pipeline and the position of the lifting device on More > Graphic Abstract

Qiansheng Fang, Haojie Wang, Chenlei Xie^*, Jie Chen

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.2, pp. 1237-1250, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.021131 - 31 August 2022

Abstract At present, the leakage rate of the water distribution network in China is still high, and the waste of water resources caused by water distribution network leakage is quite serious every year. Therefore, the location of pipeline leakage is of great significance for saving water resources and reducing economic losses. Acoustic emission technology is the most widely used pipeline leak location technology. The traditional non-stationary random signal de-noising method mainly relies on the estimation of noise parameters, ignoring periodic noise and components unrelated to pipeline leakage. Aiming at the above problems, this paper proposes a… More >

Yang Yang^1,2,*, Pengfei Zheng^3,4, Fanru Zeng⁵, Peng Xin⁶, Guoxi He¹, Kexi Liao¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.1, pp. 267-291, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020220 - 24 August 2022

Abstract Accurate prediction of the internal corrosion rates of oil and gas pipelines could be an effective way to prevent pipeline leaks. In this study, a proposed framework for predicting corrosion rates under a small sample of metal corrosion data in the laboratory was developed to provide a new perspective on how to solve the problem of pipeline corrosion under the condition of insufficient real samples. This approach employed the bagging algorithm to construct a strong learner by integrating several KNN learners. A total of 99 data were collected and split into training and test set More >

Abdullah Alsit^*, Mohammad Alkhedher, Hasan Hamdan

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 5315-5329, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.031042 - 28 July 2022

Abstract Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) process through which cracks occur in a variety of susceptible materials is a result of a combination of residual or applied stresses and corrosion. In oil and gas field, buried pipeline steels are made of low-alloy steels with a ferritic-pearlitic structure, such as X70. In dilute solutions, these materials are prone to SCC failure. The Near-neutral simulated soil solution (NS4) solution is established to imitate SCC conditions and subsequently became the industry requirement for crack growth experiments in the majority of laboratories. The strain-assisted active crack pathways are considered while modelling… More >

Wenpeng Guo^1,2, Yongtu Liang^1,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.119, No.5, pp. 2049-2064, 2022, DOI:10.32604/ee.2022.019526 - 21 July 2022

Abstract In this paper, the transportation economy of two heated crude oil pipelines laid in one ditch is analyzed by taking into account the influence of operating temperature, interval between two pipelines, and distance between two heating stations on the heating energy consumption. To analyze the transportation economy, the two heated crude oil pipelines laid in one ditch are simulated under four operating conditions based on an unstructured finite volume method. Compared with laying two crude oil pipelines separately in two ditches, the results attest notably higher soil temperature, meaning reduced heat dissipation of each pipeline… More >

Abdul Saboor^1,*, Mohd Fadzil Hassan², Rehan Akbar¹, Erwin Susanto³, Syed Nasir Mehmood Shah⁴, Muhammad Aadil Siddiqui⁵, Saeed Ahmed Magsi⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 2223-2239, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028382 - 16 June 2022

Abstract Cloud computing has gained significant use over the last decade due to its several benefits, including cost savings associated with setup, deployments, delivery, physical resource sharing across virtual machines, and availability of on-demand cloud services. However, in addition to usual threats in almost every computing environment, cloud computing has also introduced a set of new threats as consumers share physical resources due to the physical co-location paradigm. Furthermore, since there are a growing number of attacks directed at cloud environments (including dictionary attacks, replay code attacks, denial of service attacks, rootkit attacks, code injection attacks,… More >

Xiaohua Chen^1,*, Caifu Lan¹, Honghao Zheng², Wang Li¹, Chao Zhao¹, Wenjun Dang³

Energy Engineering, Vol.119, No.4, pp. 1439-1452, 2022, DOI:10.32604/ee.2022.018208 - 23 May 2022

Abstract For oil pipeline in mountain areas, high hydrostatic pressure in the pipeline may cause error-opening of pressure relief valves, and oil is discharged from the pipeline to the pressure relief tanks, bringing spilling-over risk of the pressure relief tanks. Therefore, simulating the error-opening situations of the pressure relief valves and investigating the oil discharge process are necessary for checking the possibility of the spilling-over accident and then proposing measures to improve the pressure relief system. This research focuses on a continuous undulating oil pipeline with large elevation difference and a station along this pipeline, which… More >

Gunawan Widjaja¹, Mohaimen Al-Thamir², Farshid Mehran³, Lis M. Yapanto⁴, Irina N. Fardeeva⁵, Alim Al Ayub Ahmed⁶, Supat Chupradit⁷, V. A. Kukushkina⁸, Oleg R. Kuzichkin^9,*

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.18, No.4, pp. 1099-1109, 2022, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2022.019489 - 06 April 2022

Abstract In this study, structural theory was used to examine the geometric configuration of channels embedded inside an object in the presence of internal heat generation for cooling by a heat transfer mechanism. The growth and development of gas transmission lines and the lack of up-to-date integrated information systems have made the design and maintenance of pipelines, as well as the handling of problems caused by various accidents in the pipeline, very complex in many cases. Using accurate descriptive and spatial information in tolls on gas transmission line maps such as pipes, booster stations, valves, and… More >

Yafei Li, Yanjun Liu^*

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.18, No.3, pp. 775-788, 2022, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2022.019810 - 22 February 2022

Abstract A mathematical model for one-dimensional heat transfer in pipelines undergoing freezing induced by liquid nitrogen is elaborated. The basic premise of this technology is that the content within a pipeline is frozen to form a plug or two plugs at a position upstream and downstream from a location where work a modification or a repair must be executed. Based on the variable separation method, the present model aims to solve the related coupled heat conduction and moving-boundary phase change problem. An experiment with a 219 mm long pipe, where water was taken as the plugging More >

Ningbo Jing¹, Mingqiao Li¹, Lang Liu^2,*, Yutong Shen¹, Peijiao Yang¹, Xuebin Qin¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.131, No.1, pp. 465-476, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.018965 - 24 January 2022

Abstract During mine filling, the caking in the pipeline and the waste rock in the filling slurry may cause serious safety accidents such as pipe blocking or explosion. Therefore, the visualization of the inner mine filling of the solid–liquid two-phase flow in the pipeline is important. This paper proposes a method based on capacitance tomography for the visualization of the solid–liquid distribution on the section of a filling pipe. A feedback network is used for electrical capacitance tomography reconstruction. This reconstruction method uses radial basis function neural network fitting to determine the relationship between the capacitance… More >