Electrofusion of pipe liners
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11674631B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-13

    申请号:US16955743

    申请日:2018-12-17

    申请人: Acergy France SAS

    摘要: A method of joining together liner sections within a polymer-lined pipe energises an induction coil inside the pipe to spot-heat part of a circumferential interface between the liner sections. This melts and fuses the polymer material locally. The induction coil is then moved along the interface to heat other parts of the interface successively above the melting temperature. An apparatus for performing the method has a power supply for energising the induction coil and a drive system for moving the energised induction coil relative to a body of the apparatus. The apparatus may be configured as a carriage that is movable along the pipe.

    Electrofusion of Pipe Liners
    3.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210071808A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-11

    申请号:US16955743

    申请日:2018-12-17

    申请人: Acergy France SAS

    摘要: A method of joining together liner sections within a polymer-lined pipe energises an induction coil inside the pipe to spot-heat part of a circumferential interface between the liner sections. This melts and fuses the polymer material locally. The induction coil is then moved along the interface to heat other parts of the interface successively above the melting temperature. An apparatus for performing the method has a power supply for energising the induction coil and a drive system for moving the energised induction coil relative to a body of the apparatus. The apparatus may be configured as a carriage that is movable along the pipe.

    Sealing hollow structures
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11819938B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-21

    申请号:US17590757

    申请日:2022-02-01

    申请人: Acergy France SAS

    CPC分类号: B23K20/129 B23K2101/10

    摘要: A method of sealing a hole in a wall of a hollow structure comprises providing a sealed chamber that is external to the structure and that is in fluid communication with an internal space of the structure via the hole. The structure may be a pipe-in-pipe structure and the internal space may be an annulus between outer and inner pipes. Fluid flows through the hole into or out of the chamber as the pressure and/or composition of fluid in the internal space is adjusted. Then, a plug is spun and friction-welded into the hole. The plug is inserted into the hole from within the chamber.

    Sealing Hollow Structures
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220152729A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-19

    申请号:US17590757

    申请日:2022-02-01

    申请人: Acergy France SAS

    IPC分类号: B23K20/12

    摘要: A method of sealing a hole in a wall of a hollow structure comprises providing a sealed chamber that is external to the structure and that is in fluid communication with an internal space of the structure via the hole. The structure may be a pipe-in-pipe structure and the internal space may be an annulus between outer and inner pipes. Fluid flows through the hole into or out of the chamber as the pressure and/or composition of fluid in the internal space is adjusted. Then, a plug is spun and friction-welded into the hole. The plug is inserted into the hole from within the chamber.

    Improving the bending behaviour of mechanically-lined rigid pipe

    公开(公告)号:US10406577B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-10

    申请号:US15538193

    申请日:2015-12-18

    申请人: Acergy France SAS

    摘要: A method of making mechanically-lined pipe with primary expansion by plastically expanding a liner sleeve within an outer pipe, under lining pressure applied internally to the liner sleeve. On relieving the lining pressure, elastic radial contraction of the outer pipe makes a mechanical bond between the outer pipe and the liner sleeve. Then, secondary expansion of the outer pipe is performed under fixing pressure, which may be greater than the lining pressure, applied internally to the liner sleeve at an end portion of the pipe. This makes or strengthens a mechanical bond at the end portion. The resulting pipe joint has an end portion and a body portion inboard of the end portion. The body portion has a first, lesser bonding pressure between the outer pipe and the liner sleeve. The end portion has a second, greater bonding pressure between the outer pipe and liner sleeve.

    Repair of Pipeline Welds Using Friction Stir Processing

    公开(公告)号:US20180221984A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-09

    申请号:US15748162

    申请日:2016-07-28

    申请人: Acergy France SAS

    IPC分类号: B23K20/12 B23P6/04

    摘要: A method of using friction stir processing to repair a defect in a pre-existing weld of a pipeline of steel or other ferrous alloy. The method comprises attaching run-on and run-off tabs to the pipeline on respective sides of the defect and then advancing a friction stir processing tool into the nm-on tab. The tool is moved from the nm-on tab to the run-off tab along a weld-processing path that incorporates the defect. Once the defect is repaired, the tool is removed from the run-off tab. The run-on and run-off tabs may then be removed from the pipeline. The nm-on and nm-off tabs are generally wedge-shaped, each comprising an inner seating face and an outer running face that converges with the inner seating face. When attached to the pipeline, the tabs toward each other about the circumference of the pipeline.

    Electrofusion of pipe liners
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11566745B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-31

    申请号:US16955743

    申请日:2018-12-17

    申请人: Acergy France SAS

    摘要: A method of joining together liner sections within a polymer-lined pipe energises an induction coil inside the pipe to spot-heat part of a circumferential interface between the liner sections. This melts and fuses the polymer material locally. The induction coil is then moved along the interface to heat other parts of the interface successively above the melting temperature. An apparatus for performing the method has a power supply for energising the induction coil and a drive system for moving the energised induction coil relative to a body of the apparatus. The apparatus may be configured as a carriage that is movable along the pipe.

    Manufacturing Bimetallic Lined Pipes

    公开(公告)号:US20220314363A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-06

    申请号:US17633796

    申请日:2020-08-10

    申请人: Acergy France SAS

    IPC分类号: B23K20/12

    摘要: A liner sleeve is secured within a host pipe of a bimetallic lined pipe by driving a spinning friction stir welding tool through the liner sleeve but not through the full wall thickness of the host pipe. This forms a thermo-mechanically affected welded zone in which metal of the liner sleeve is bonded with some metal of the host pipe. Relative movement between the spinning tool and the lined pipe extends the welded zone along a weld path. Where the pipe is mechanically lined, the welded zone extends along a previously unbonded outboard region that extends longitudinally from an inboard region at which the liner sleeve is bonded mechanically to the host pipe.