Method and apparatus for monitoring of component housing wall thickness and wear monitoring

摘要

A method for monitoring wall thickness of an industrial piping component or pump/fluid machinery, including a pump casing for a pump used for pumping an abrasive fluid or slurry, comprising providing a signal containing information about a ultrasonic-based transducer pulse from a discrete ultrasonic-based transducer attached directly on an industrial piping component or pump/fluid machinery at a local point of interest and configured to inject the ultrasonic-based transducer pulse into the industrial piping component or pump/fluid machinery at the local point of interest and sense the ultrasonic-based transducer pulse reflected off a wall of the industrial piping component or pump/fluid machinery at the local point of interest; and determining with an electronic monitoring system the thickness of the wall of the industrial piping component or pump/fluid machinery at the local point of interest based at least partly on the signal received containing information about the discrete ultrasonic-based transducer pulse sensed. The discrete ultrasonic-based transducer may include a discrete ultrasonic-based piezoelectric transducer.

主权项

1. A method for monitoring the thickness of a wall of a pump casing for a pump used for pumping an abrasive fluid or slurry, comprising:
injecting an ultrasonic-based transducer pulse from a discrete ultrasonic-based transducer attached to a pump casing of a pump at a local point of interest; sensing with the discrete ultrasonic-based transducer the ultrasonic-based transducer pulse reflected off a wall of the pump casing at the local point of interest; receiving with an electronic monitoring system a signal containing information about the ultrasonic-based transducer pulse sensed; and determining with the electronic monitoring system the thickness of the wall of the pump casing at the local point of interest based at least partly on the signal received.