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hello everyone and welcome to today's webinar with febin Jose and Mr Joe pus my name is Kesley price I am the product marketing manager here at technical toolboxes and I will be facilitating the webinar today um before we get started here shortly um if you have any questions um on what our presenters are covering there is a chat box on the right hand side of your webinar interface please send us any questions you may have uh throughout the presentation and we will do our best to cover all the questions we receive at the end with that I will turn it over to febin and we will get started thank you very much thanks kley uh good morning everyone and uh thanks for joining the call today uh we hope I mean it's it's a good learning experience to hear more about what Hydro test uh is and what the implications are and hopefully uh you take away something from this presentation thank you let's uh now get started all right so so quickly I mean let's look at the agenda for today uh what we're going to do here is uh give a brief background on the hydro test process and history on hydro testing uh have it have an overview on the risk and the regulatory changes that has happened and that's still happening uh talk about the importance of the documentation and the TVC principles from the Naru and uh then we will move on to a live demo session of the hydro static testing tool within the technical tool boxes and we'll keep the uh keep the window open for Live question and answers if you have anything so that's what the agenda looks like for today so so hydrotesting has been uh the philosophy of hydrotesting has been there from the early 1900s it's been used in The Vessel industry so uh hydro testing from a intro standpoint as the name hydr water based testing so it's it's a method used to perform strength and Lead test on the pipeline so what it does is I mean you do the test uh by taking the pipeline out of service you then fill it with water raise the internal pressure of the pipe to a designated pressure on a stress level and then hold the pipe at or above the designated pressure for a prescribed period of time the prescribed PD varies depending on the governing principles from the code standards usually the hydro test is done uh for both new pipes and the existing pipes for commissioning of the new pipe the last major activity that you do before the commission is to get the hydrotesting hydro testing done to validate the maop or mop depending on the fluid that's flowing in the pipe also you do the hydro testing for existing pipe to identify there's a flow in manufacturing uh uh in the Manu facturing of the parts that are used to build the pipe or uh it's used uh if there are some defects that you have found uh in the fittings and the materials that I used or it could be that I mean during the design pH I mean if there is some some some design flows that was there as part of the construction process that could be also identified using the hydro test so there are a wide variety of reasons why do you why you want to do hydro testing uh some of them I have listed here so one of the key reasons that you do a hydro test is to identify the stability of the pipeline that's no prions right so that's one major thing I mean there could be a scenario where you want to establish or reestablish the maop of the pipeline or the mop of the pipeline so that's one of the reason why you why why do you want to do it or if you want to essentially re-qualify the pipe uh let's say mean you have a survey uh that was done and some of the locations have change I mean you need to re-qualify the pipe and make it fit for operation so you need to essentally do the hyroot testing to essentially revalidate the mop that's also one reason why you do that uh also I mean when there is there are uh operation specific uh assessment and safety programs within your company I mean that's also one governing factor that you do that these are reasons that mainly you do but there are other reasons too like I mean there there's an acquisition or emerg that came in I mean there are records and documentations related to the seing of the pipe that should be made available if it's not there you need to generate the new records to entally use it for uh governing reasons and those are also reasons that would essentially trigger a new hydrotesting for uh for the pipes so uh I briefly touched on this the history of hydro hydrostatic testing so hydrostatic testing uh evolved from The Vessel testing vessel test vessel industry prior to 1900 so that's where I mean it wed into so prior to 1955 what used to happen was uh and I mean even though it was called as hydrostatic testing I mean the testing was done through fluid that was flowing in the pipe so then post 1955 what happened was I mean the uh asme as anog reorganized and ASM essentially developed the b31.8 code for pressure testing uh for all pipes that are operating about 30% spies up so that is the that's how the evolution happened but one thing that was still missing was uh duration of the test was not specified even after 1955 here's a history in a timeline perspective that covers what I showed in the previous slide as you can see uh the process of defining the uh time it takes to entally do the hydro testing essentially started uh after 1970 so as you can see here so um after 1955 is when I mean you can see the post insulation pressure testing and the test duration was not specified during this time but I mean after 1970 I mean it was something that was specified so uh that's a brief overview there now this is essentially a test Factor specification and the evolution of the test Factor specification for minimum test pressure that uh you want to test the pipe against and how it has evolved over the period uh right now currently I mean depending on whether you're you're in gas or liquid I mean it's govern by 192 or 195 I have categorically defined this presentation more so to talk about the M Ru side so we we'll talk more on the 192 side the CFR subsection of 192 619 A2 subpart two would essentially cover what is the latest test Factor ranges that's tied to the classes that uh that are covered here uh the only addition from this chart or from this table that you will find in the latest version is they have included two new subcategories or sub sections for installation of uh installation of pipes that have been installed after July 20th 2020 with the test Factor starting at 1.25 uh for class one location and uh they have also included a category four conversion of the pipes that have been converted under 192.158 five for class one and as the class location increases the test Factor locations for the safety concerns to improve dramatically so so what what does it say about the minimum test pressure and the control point right so the minimum test pressure uh is basically governed by the CFR codes between 192 and 195 in 192 619 uh the table clearly covers the test factors and the test Factor ranges for different kinds of pip lead uh with the timeline uh and the location classes uh so that essentially covers that and that's the governing process now the national transport safety board uh usually recommends any pipe to be tested uh at no less than the 1.25 times the maximum allowable operating pressure for class one to start over with so that the safety is uh introduced and safety is uh withheld within the industry so now there is a subcategory within the hydrotest pro is called as the spike testing so it's Spike testing is a variant variation of the hyro test uh usually done uh in in tandem with the hyro test the good part of Spike test is I mean if there's a 8 Hour window you can break or include Hydro test uh include Spike test as part of the hydro testing process so usually done ahead of the full-blown hydrotest that you have so in the first two hours you might do a spike test based on the specification that's the so what you do for the spike test I mean you Spike you spike the pressure above the minimum test pressure to a prescribed level uh and you're doing it for a shorter time frame and then you essentially reduce it back to the minimum test pressure that you want to test it against so it's essentially spiking it and this is done for two main reasons one is essentially you want to induce failure in the pipe I mean if it's possible to see I me if there are defects that needs to be attended and that's one thing that you can do so the other thing that uh it allows to do I mean since you are introducing a higher pressure range uh any surviving cracks that could potentially have been a problem could be uh stabilized uh that's also one thing that's done what the national uh safety board uh the national transport safety board essentially recommends incorporating a spy test uh when testing existing pipes with a test pressure to mm range that's a test pressure range uh of less than 1.4 and for pipes that usually experience seam well failures or uh pipes that are susceptible to same world cracking or same cracks those are the places where Spike test uh gives a greater Advantage there uh there was a ke study that was done uh uh I think it was in 2012 that talks 2012 or 2014 I'm not so sure about the date but that Rec covers in detail on the merits of ESS having a spike test introducing to a hydro test so if anybody's interested in knowing more that's a good recommended reference look more into so uh this this is something that I pulled up from the fimsa uh annual report uh it was essentially done to give you context on how uh the evolution in the industry is happening so uh if you look at it I mean between uh in the last in in this in this decade when you look at anything that uh that's new from 2020 to 2029 there was less than 6,000 miles of new pipeline that was added so what you are seeing is a mix of pipeline that has been in the uh that has been lay underground for a longer period and you continuously doing the maintenance and the operation and the testing there so for a simple context in 2012 58% of the total transmission gas transmission lines were installed prior to 1970 yes I mean there were repairs happening there and replacement happening but in 2022 still 54% are still installed prior to 1970 so uh even though there is a lot of significant improvements in in the replacement that's happening I mean you are still in a place where hyd test becomes a important aspect in your safety process and it's not going away if there's something that's that's take away from this slide uh it's the emphasis of how important hydrotest is and why it's still going to be an integral part of your integrity uh specification and the process so there are some risks that's tied with the hydrotest uh so we want to break it down to the with Hydro test for buried Pipeline and exposed pipes so for buried pipes um the risk is lesser compared to expose pipe expose pipe in in addition to everything that you see as concerns and problems that comes around with the buried P the additional aspect is I mean you are now exposed which really affects the equipment and the personal who are doing it so it comes in with this its own um consequences and failure so a good plan should essentially look at analyzing what are the consequences that are tied to a failure to so uh one of the major reasons that's driving a lot of the recent uh maop validation and hydro testing is uh the regulatory changes uh Mega rule uh So for anybody that's following Mega rule is now finally complete uh the mega rule one was released in October 2019 just followed up with mega rule 2 part two uh it's a three-part rule that was completed or the study that was completed the part two was completed in November 2021 and now you have part three that was released in uh August 2 4th 2022 so uh the important aspect there is bulk of uh the substantive requirements of the rule is taking effect has already taken effect uh later part of last year so that's one of the reasons why a lot of the mop validations and the documentations and the traceability and all the aspects of hydro testing is becoming important and important in your day-to-day life one of the major call out in the mega rule change is the limitation that's tied to the grandfather clu for So for anybody I mean who is not familiar with uh what the grandfather clu is that was uh that was a categorical Clues tied to part 192 619 uh it's it's called as the grandfather close for confirming the maop so uh what that allowed a lot of The Operators to do was to confirm maop using the highest pressure test recorded within the fire period uh that predates the July 1st 1970 pipelines so what what has happened with the regulatory change is uh you no longer can use the uh grandfather Clues broadly so it's now applicable to pipes that are operating under 30% spice up or pipelines that are operating in class one or class two so which ESS is one of one more prompt that ESS prompt you to rec do the revalidation for all pipelines that have been previously protected by the grandfather Clues that's one major Cham that's coming in and it also is uh important toally see the Reformation in the M because some of the geographies are changing location clust are changing you are getting new survey data all those things are essentially forcing you to uh do more and more revalidation work for your hydro test or for your pipeline so what are the mega rule Implement implications that uh you should be looking forward to there is going to be an in increase in scrutiny on the documentation and on the traceability verifiability and the completeness of the documents that you have so since I mean a lot of us have worked in Industry where consolidation has been part I mean one of the things is historical records might not might not meet the requirement because there could be scenarios where you can't essentially trace the old version of who did who conducted the uh test and what sections were completed I mean that's one aspect to it hydro testing is just one aspect but there are other aspects in Omega rule that uh forces you to look closely into the traceability of different aspects the uh equipments used the constru materials used everything has to be traceable now so that is the Mega Ru Implement implications that you are more so looking forward as we get into the phase of implementing the mega Ru uh for a quick reference uh uh So based on the meu project meu implementation by uh what it's calling for is by July 2028 50% of all the pipes that haven't been verified needs verification completed and by 2035 100% of all the pipes that are in operating should have the mop verifications and so these are some of the call outs from the uh Mega Ru implementation that uh you will see more often now so uh so how can you do the do this process and make sure that I mean regulatory uh handoffs are done and you are in compliant right so one of the thing is basically looking at the pressure test planning you need to start uh you need to ESS understand what's the reason why a pressure test planning is been conducted and what is it that you want to try to accomplish I mean is it uh is it that I mean you're doing a stress fo pip that you're doing a revalidation for the pip p and the location class change all those things play a key role in essentially helping you design an effective Hydro test plan that can then be communicated to your contractor or to your engineers I mean who are executing this documentations uh can't stress enough on this uh documentations are becoming an important uh aspect and a concern uh throughout uh throughout our industry and throughout our operations uh there are major concerns on what needs to be covered in the documentations and what uh and also a better understanding of what is requested from the regulatory standpoint and what do what subsequent documentations are required uh this requires understanding of understanding of the uh Mega rules and the code standards and also I mean one thing U at least I mean we have observed is U standardization greatly helps and uh having a standard workflow is something that has helped people me in the industry to entally be very compliant with the regulations there okay so again some of the concerns uh with the documentations that uh historically people have been complaining about is uh the change in operator operatorship and the ownership and uh lack of traceability verifiability and the completeness of the documentation that's there uh paperwork is missing these things uh these things were okay back then I mean but with the implementations and the implications of of uh the regulatory changes uh it's going to be scrutinized more so uh so this essentially these were some of the concerns that we found out as we were studying the road map and studying the uh uh changes in the code standards and uh applicability of the mega rule in our understanding of our questions that we asked was what is it that I mean we could help and how we can have a standardized process is to help our Engineers work effectively and make sure that uh these planning can be done with little to no external reference or external reference set required so that's where we thought of bringing in a workflow that's user intuitive and that provides a user experience on par that would essentially help you manage and plan your hydro testing process effectively so our Hydro test power tool U so when we essentially implemented the hydro test power tool the few things that we looked into was uh we want to essentially help you support your record keeping and traceability the verifiability and the compliance space so uh we with our implementations of the tool within the Hub platform can essentially help you with your recorde keeping uh also I mean the compliance piece I mean we have buil the tool to be essentially compliant with both 192 and 195 so whether it's gas or liquid that's flowing in your pipe we have the tool that is would handle that for you and also the final piece is the documentation piece so we want to essentially provide a documentation that is uh that can be easily shared across the different teams and also something that can be recorded So that anytime when a a review is done there there is an easy place or easy s where you can essentially generate it with uh enough credential details on why the hydro testing Hydro test was done who did it and when it was done so all those things can can be included or tied into the record keeping aspect there so few advantages from a hydro testing power tools is uh we have a workflow that is semi-automated so depending on what your use cases is whether you want to use the exal survey file or you want to use it based on rgis map or you want to do it manually we have different workflows that ESS helps you do that uh it's a semi autom intuitive workflow we didn't take take the full automated approach because I mean at the end of the day I mean it's something that's being planned and it requires a very high level of input from the engineers who are designing it so what we approached it was we want to make sure uh it's semi-automated in in a way I mean it's not repetitive but at the same time it gives the scrw me and a vigorous review process that helps the engineers makes the right kind of framework to make the hydro Des planning as uh comprehensive and uh as easy to execute as possible that's one aspect it also brings in the time saving element by essentially standardizing the process for you so those are some aspects that we are covering there uh and our major goal is is really to standardize the workflow for you so that uh whenever you think of hydro test I mean you can use a standard workflow that can essentally be implemented across the AUG so that uh everything that comes out of it standardized workflow that's audited and uh we spoke about the report and this is the report format that you see as part of the hydrotesting uh report that we generate and that cles the uh presentation side of hydro test the next aspect that we're going to do is uh I'm going to share the screen and show you the hydrotesting action live within the platform platform give you an overview on what the tool looks like and uh uh maybe even after that I mean we will find some time to essentially help answer all the questions that would have come in now all right uh I hope every body can see my screen uh what I have loaded here is a hydro test is the Hydro test power tool within the Hub platform uh it's in pipeline engineering software and under the hydraulic I mean you have hydro test and that's where you have the hydro test tool here what we have here is uh is a fully integrated uh to that's built in with argis and the upd the port database for the data architect structure but at the same time giving you the Simplicity to go uh go to how you're doing it right now if you're somebody I mean who has used Excel and who would like to Simply use the Excel workflow we have the same workflow in the manual process if you're somebody I mean who works with the asset data and uh want toally bring in the asset data and interact with the gis to essentially bring in the ground elevation and work with that we have the capability to do that or if you're somebody I mean who is essentially working with survey data that's also something that we can do that so uh so on a quick step uh the this is where I mean you define your case and the case detail what I have here is a predefined demo case that I want to go over so that I can show you the different aspects there so we are in the summary page or the overview page here right now where I have done the hydro test for five different sections for my uh for my uh pipeline as you can see here so uh these are the five different sections that I did the hydro test for and this is the summary outline that talks about uh what's the status on the hyro testing done for each individual sections as you can see here one other section is failing and this fail criteria is based on the validation checks that we have already implemented there based on the code standards between uh whether it's 192 or 195 right so that is essentially what it is now in the summary what you see here is the entire asset data or the pipe that's being loaded here along with the elevation profile for the pipe but what you see here is from where I have basically started my hydro tesing uh even if I mean you're bringing in an asset data I mean doesn't mean that I mean you have to start from the starting point to Simply run this uh I have selected an intermediate location where I want to do the hydro testing for and that is what you see here and the section is starting from somewhere uh in the midst of the pipeline where we want to actively do the hydro testing and those are the places where we have done the hydrotex Section here so now regarding the sectioning uh there are different ways uh we can essentially semi-automatically run the sectioning for you if if you essentially would like the system to uh identify and Define the sectioning for that that is also something that we can do if it's something that uh has to be manually done we have the capability to do that yeah so what you see here are the section controls all the features there where uh if if you define your first section and you want to essentially build subsequent sections I mean you can use the copy feature here to copy the pipe attributes and the pipe configuration data for the subsequent sects uh if you are somebody I mean who likes to who think like find hey I'm doing the H testing planning I mean because I have an elevation head or in this particular case I'm going into this third section where it's failing to see what is the reason why it's failing here so um the third section what I see here is uh what what I see here is the input data data that I have used for the calculation and the results tied to that particular section is here and the warning essentially sees there's a test range ER because of the maximum allowed elevation differential and that usually comes in or the validation check comes in when uh when there is a pressure difference between the Min and Max is not sufficiently supported and in this case the elevation head is high and that's the reason why actually asking me to esally do a subsequent or breakdown the sections if those are the kind of scenarios that that you would run to what you can do is I mean you can essentally use the split feature uh within our tool to split and say hey these are the location this is how I would like to split it and that's also something that uh we can do within the uh within the tool here so in case I mean if you are essentially in a place where you want to merge two sections to combine it in a single section that will something the hydro test tool essentially would allow you to do that now few things here so uh I'm going to start creating a new case to show you the workflow so that we can have a look at what the workflow looks like and what are the different steps involved uh will if time permits I mean we'll come back to the existing case and go through the different sectioning different aspects uh what are the different input parameters where output parameters C in how the program is functioning based on different scenarios everything will be covered here so if you're are new to hydro test planning what you do is I mean you create a new case by clicking on the create new uh what it does is uh it brings up a popup it asks you for for what code Cent are you doing your hydrotesting for if the fluid that's flowing in the pipe uh is uh in this case I'm going to select gas to essentially say it so that say it's gas so that the code standards are correspondingly adjusted based on that now there is a pressure adjustment that uh you can essentially do for the contractor uh if that is something that you want to include you can ESS Define what is the pressure adjustment that you want to include there and also the buff of pressure so once you're done with that the next step is simp simply selecting what is the workflow that you would like to follow to essentially do your hyres planning there are three different options as you can see here manual is where uh you are defining all the input datas manually one field after the other so if that's a workflow that you want to follow through uh we have the capability to do that if select pipe is a selection that you're defining what it does is uh since our tools are fully integrated with maps and hierarchy you can if you have an asset data that you want to bring it and we have the ability to bring it bring the particular data through the map feature that's the S3 map or the or the hierarchy feature that you see on the left and bring that pip in thirdly if you have a reference or a survey file that you have that you would like to bring it and govern your uh sectioning based on that you can essentially bring that so for us uh so in this case I'm going to select survey data to show you the survey capability here so I selected the survey the next step is basically giving you a prompt to see find bring in your survey file and this is where I I'm selecting the survey file here the server files usually is a standard template uh this is what a server file looks like so it has cend line it has your pipe configurations and your operating configuration the begin station and end station U and also the LLS uh LLS that are tied to the particular locations of the pipe where the survey is done so it has it has most of the fields that are really critical and essentially U defining your hyro test plans so if if you have a surve file or survey data you can use of a template to pre propop your surve file with the data uh three fields that are grade out are automatically calculated so you don't have to fill in it's basically picking up data from begin station and in station to calculate the length of the segments and the my post data for you so in this case I me I'm going to bring the same server file to show you essentially how EAS see it it is to bring in the survey data so uh here what I do is I browse the file I select the survey data of the survey file now as I'm bringing in the survey file um you saw the different fields that were prepopulated so now uh in as part of doing the semi-automation work process one of the things that we do is we allow you to essentially Define your rules as to how you want to define the sectioning if you want to go that route in this case I mean you can essentially Define your U sections based on what those governing parameters is I mean if uh reclassification or uh reaffirmation of maop has to be done based on the location class in this case I would like to do that to see that I select class locations and what uh the model essentially does is it's looking at locations where the location classes uh class locations have changed and break those sections based on that and that is something that the model does and now when I click next what it does is uh it's automatically creating those sections based on where the locations have changed and uh these are the lck long locations that came in from the Ser file and that gets populated in the uh map so that you see where uh where these locations are so uh that's that's a easy workflow within the data that's there so so there are different for you to choose from what works best for you now we'll go back to our existing keys so that uh we can work more from the existing keys so this is our existing U case that I showed you here uh let's look at what what are the data that's required uh what are being covered in the input and the results right so here what you see is I mean it's an intuitive workflow so for each individual section you have the input data and the result sections that are two separate tabs there so on the left you see the pipe configurations um the pipe essentially configurations are uh populated on the left side so if if these are common data fields that are coming in like let's say when I brought a server file if I have those common data fields that gets pre-populated there so I don't have to redo that work of manually entering it uh if I'm bringing in an asset uh that's also a place where I can pre-populate this data if the asset data carries those configurational data that's there now what what you also see here is the elevation profile data that's coming in and also the operational parameter data that's there so we have the mop whether I mean if it's a previously mop established uh section that we are redefining we can ESS use the M established to essentially uh test your high address plan for that particular section against that what also has is these are features within the gis system so one is simply bringing in or allowing you to bring in your file from a hierarchy or a map that's way you choose what we also have is the capability to bring in the elevation uh for you basically based on the begin station and end station for an asset that's already in the system so if in this case what what I have done is I have used what we call the 3D analyst tool that's the 3D that's a 3D analyst tool within the G system to bring in my ground elevation for the section based on the based on the begin station and end station that are being defined here what it also does is it's essentially giving me or fetching me what my low elevation and high elevation are for those particular locations they automatically fetches all that and so in a way it's simply helping me semi-automate my workflow and also ask me those relevant addition fields that are required that are missing in the data flow so whatever your use cases are there are ways we can ESS make it function within the workflow here what you see under the result is um is the section the result calculations based on the data input that's there uh you might have seen three sections here uh this is this result section is specifically tied to the hydro test uh that we did for that particular section what we are also doing is uh a lot of you might be familiar with the pipeline toolbx under pipeline tool box if you go into pipeline testing uh there are additional uh calculations like the pipeline hydratic testing and uh and the maop uh calculations that uh are being done in the pipeline testing module we use the same inputs that are being prefilled for each individual section to run those calculations too uh there are times when uh it is relevant to essentially pick up those data if those are the scenarios where where you want to entally see the compressibility and those kind of hyd hydrostatic testing analysis that thermal change and the volumetric change those kind of fields that you normally go to pipeline toolbox to do that those are also duplicated here so that you don't have to do it in multiple ways you can just do it here and on the right is where you see your minimum and the maximum test pressure for uh for look for the sections that you have done the testing and the adjustments that have made based on the threshold configuration that you have made at the top level here and threshold level now for places where uh the validation checks are producing um the validations for you to look closely into what you see is a warning section that gives you a context on why uh why the warning exist we have the we have our help documentation that covers different reasons why uh why those validation checks comes in and what are the wayes of what are what are the places or what are the ways I mean you can entally control those valid checks and mitigate it so that is in our documentations here so if if you are seeing those warning messages and to want to know what are the trigger points are essentially causing it that's in our documentation piece that that's covered there and finally what we also have here is uh the final cumulative report that can be generated here so once you have done your analysis once you have the data for each individual Fields you completed your uh h test planning uh you are good to go and if you have that level of confidence the next thing that you want to do is you want to generate a fullblown report for the Hest planning so that uh it can be handed over to the next uh group that's executing the handoff so if there is any specific notifications or no notes that you want to add for each indidual section from a high level you canally have the notes captured here but let's say I mean if you have notes or notifications that you want to capture for each individual section on what that specification is there's a comment section uh for each section that would that can essentially be the place where you can capture the comments for each the section as to what you want to communicate to the contractor if that's there you can do that now um I want to spend a little bit of time looking at uh what the report looks like so here is the hyroot test report for the base case that I showed uh what you see here uh is a is a report that's that's a fullblown report that has uh the appjs snapshot and the elevation profile for each inter section so when you go uh this is the summary tab data that you have here for the different sections that we created now for each individual section as you're going in it highlights that part section that you're looking at what the elevation profile for that particular section is and you also have the hydrotest input and the results uh I have used the mop established as the governing factor to essentially run this and that's the reason why I mean it's showing be established uh as the factor there and you have what we call as a beginning station and end station and all the data that's required for uh the team to successfully execute the plan that's all available here what it also has is the results that are coming in from the hyro test for the maximum and minimum test pressure and whatever that you want to communicate with the contractor based on the adustment that's also captured here what it has is also the supporting calculations that we covered as part of pipeline toolbox calculations um underneath that now for for sections that are failing or that have warnings there uh it also brings in that warning messages for you so in this case uh section three had that warning or an error message that was there and that is captured here as part of the report to so this is uh this is also subsequently captured and analyzed here and uh this is what the report looks like for all the sections and all the all the profiles that you have here and again um the way to essentially do the reports is uh when you click on the report run report it comes up with a popup uh if you have uh elevation profile and arjs map map integration or an option there these additional smart features comes in uh if not I mean you can still go by your regular H planning report that has the laong and the features that are coming in there so that is also something uh that that's an additional level of configuration that's there within the tool now within the mapping tool uh if you would like to essentially split the screen look at the uh look at the screen based on uh both map and and the elevation profile that's also something that can be done if you want to look closely into that particular sectioning that's something that uh that we can do with the map feature that's there if lat long additionally I mean if begin station and end station has to be defined uh through the geog or the lat Longs you can essentially use the point drop feature to drop pin for the uh beginner Ander for each individual section to essentially do that so that is also something that uh we do that within the hyres power tool also in addition to that uh there are uh a lot of validation checks that we have done to make sure uh your data is properly validated as part of you defining uh your section configuration and your workflow so uh for example if if there is a significant difference between your begin station and end station so the model automatically triggers it uh in the overview section to essentially give you an overview that hey uh that's a difference between the end station of the first section and the beginning station for the next session it's not preventing you from running the calculation but it's giving you the validation checks in an intuitive way so that uh you as a engineer can have a better overview on the different analysis that's being performed there uh additionally we have different warning signs here so if there are any places where we see a warning is existing in the section or if this section needs additional review at your end I mean uh it brings in a color coded warning there if there are input data that you missed out that's that's not populated that also brings in a validation checks for for you to Simply look at it so those are some Nifty validation or intuitive UI features that have been introduced within the power tool software I hope the demo was uh intuitive enough to capture the full essence of what we have done with Hydro test what uh we are going to do now is going back to the presentation so that we can take you to the subsequent slides uh it's it's mostly questions that uh it's mostly around questions that we can ask and there I think there are some PA questions too so I'll take you back to the uh presentation now next perfect thank you febin um so we do have a couple poll questions that we're going to display for you um we're always looking at ways to improve here at technical toolboxes so these help us gauge your interest in the hydro test power tool and um kind of guide us in our next steps um we'll put up each of these questions for about a minute each um then we can move on to the Q&A uh it does look like we got um some great questions in so we want to cover as many of those as possible um if we don't cover your question during the webinar live um we will follow up uh via email but hopefully we'll be able to cover most of these so you should see the first poll question up now for febin and Joe we do have um some questions I think you can cover without um needing the screen um how many sections can the tool handle I saw that you showed six in your demo uh uh kle good question the tool can handle up to 50 sessions right now perfect uh we should have the second poll question coming up here there we go um and then another question we we got is what formats um are available for the report that you can um export so the report format right now uh we do allow export uh we do allow PDF reports and also if you want you can also export the uh report or the data in an Excel format if that's also something that's interested great thank you febin just a little longer on this poll question and then we'll move on to um some of the other Q&A questions okay so moving on to the Q&A um let's start with can the tool help in accepting an ongoing run with changes in temperature and pressure to determine the volume changes Joe you want to take that question Joe I think it it relies relies more on your expertise on that front one of the things we have um is in the results you'll notice that we have we take things to the third third and fifth uh polom and if there's any change and and that and the reason we did that is is because of the uh possible changes that could occur uh you know for the accuracy of whether you're having a leak or or is it just a true temperature change that's causing the pressure to increase or decrease so so so you have that capability to uh uh get that additional accuracy and and and we developed that um those Pol nomal for you know for that purpose uh thank you thanks Joe um next question can you import CAD files or um files with pipe profile and elevation uh so we can import uh the data in an Excel file format right now from the uh for the pipe profile and the elevation profile uh we don't do CAD integration right now within the Hy test okay and um what is the maximum length for each section it dep there are a lot of governing factors that's there right so I mean if if you from an elevation standpoint if your elevation isn't uh if if your elevation head isn't really high I mean you can uh create sections that are longer compared to how it would have been I mean if you have an elevation difference but when we say maximum length defined uh if you can let's let's put this I mean if you want to essentially take a particular pipe and do the hydr test with just one section in that's also possible within the Hydro power to awesome thank you um let's see next question here um the tool seems to be focused on planning the test is there capability to review data and approve it based on actual results during the test this is a hydro test design tool design and planning tool so uh it's it's a it's simply allowing you to plan and uh uh and essentially help you generate the test plan uh so the approval process is not something that the tool does because it actually is executed in the field and you're taking the data back to complete the approval process so that documentation piece is not something that we handl like within the tool okay in can the tool calculate the maximum hydraulic pressure ing to the elevation profile yes uh it can essentially take the elevation head into account and calculate that great um here we go next question can you change the test media type to air or nitrogen uh Jo me I think this is a question more on pneumatic testing um exactly it's it's pneumatic test and and again this is a uh hydrostatic Tool uh we are looking at uh nitrogen and air you know gases or or and U at this point in time uh they're they're more based on it appears just looking for leaks uh they shortterm uh but uh generally they're shortterm so so at this point in time uh it's still it's we're still reviewing that thank you Joe um here's a good one does technical toolboxes have an app for more metal loss issues and pig runs uh regarding uh metal loss um in pig runs we we do have the rring program set up to do ba batch runs where where you could run 50 you know you know 50 different calculations at the same time so if that's what you're referring to uh yes we we've addressed that issue uh when you're dealing with u issues uh that uh uh that are related to R string now keep in mind um you know that's when we're we're talking about our string that's level two evaluation as compared to asme B30 uh uh uh the B3 uh uh On's uh uh the the original and and the modified uh those calculations are Level ones and all they're doing is taking the maximum depth and and the max maximum length and that's done you know by the pig vendor so so we could repeat that there's no reason to do it but that could be done so so but everything we're focused on is is our string level two calculations thank you Joe um here's another good one um what's the test duration how about the leak test and the stress test so uh depends on um so for the right now mean the the example Kee that that I showed was a full-blown hydrotest hydrostatic testing and usually do the testing for eight hours based on the U CFR 192 or 195 recommendations uh Jo do you want to take that second part of that question on and stress test yeah you know was if you're referring to spike testing and things of this nature where you know the minimum test um starts at 15 minutes up to um whatever you want to keep it um uh at this at this time we're we're again we're reviewing how to set that up and uh you know for particularly uh outside and and here here's a perfect example test duration uh depending on you know the uh cracks that you're dealing with uh you know most most uh uh cracks uh like I say The Regulators are looking about about a 15minute test most pipeline operators uh do a 30 minute test and and others do around a two-hour test so uh actually I'm given a paper at nce on this and and um and and the and these are and there's reasons for for some of this is be because of the type of failure failures and cracking that's that that you're seeing on your pipeline so so so uh again this is something we could work with you on that and set that up ingly um and and and that's strictly under review and please contact us uh so so we could work together on that you know to address your specific issues great thank you Joe uh let's see here next question um um does your tool have the capability to do above ground hydro testing yes uh we can uh the only uh caveat there is uh you are essentially uh defining those begin station end station and the M maximum elevation from a above ground specification that point and as long as you you're defining it the right way the tool should be able to handle that well well there's another consideration is the temperature if you got a sunny day and the pipe is above ground uh that's going to present some problems uh nor normally we try to most of our testing is is for underground for reasons uh to to maintain the stability uh uh you know after the after the waterers in in the system uh and and that usually takes up to 48 hours and and anytime you expose the pipe uh you're going to subject it to uh increase uh sunlight or more in or maybe ambient uh uh temperatures and things of this nature uh that that could impact it so so uh so it's not just the UV that's the problem it it could be uh cold temperatures so so they're going to create some fluctuations also also just to add to what you said I mean the thermodynamic model there should be uh currently we don't have that but there should be a u little bit more complex thermodynamic model that needs to be in place because when you are exposed there's a variation in temperature ranges for the fluid uh that you are dealing with and that can take into account on the uh expansion and compression of the fluid and those impacts has to be studied and evaluated as part of your high risk planning but good question there thank you both um I'm going to start kind of wrapping up but I'm going to try to get um one or two more questions in here um Can the tool do pressure uh volume plots good session Sophia we don't currently do it but something that we can definitely take upon uh uh it's it's it's the feedback like this I mean that's important for us and please feel free to work with us on that friend we can officially reach out to you on what your specifications are we wanted to just put something out there so that we see I mean how our clients are liking it if you feel like I mean that's one thing that has to be implemented uh we definitely can look into it okay and then let's hit this last one um before we close out um you used uh an onshore example of the pipe locations is it Poss possible um in the same way to use it for offshore considering you know the Deep uh pressures temperatures Etc it is possible but uh um that's something we're we were we have not addressed at this point in time thanks Joe um and one last question here um any recommended diameters where Hydro test is is not recommended I think a way to look at that would be uh what we have presented from a hydro testing standpoint is for the transmission lines uh for distribution lines I mean where the pressure difference is significantly lower uh and the uh and the length of the pipe is lower uh you don't necessarily have to do uh Hy you can even do pneumatic testing but yeah the question more so was uh around the best practices of what the diameter looks like uh for a transmission line I mean if it's a transmission line uh you normally get get to know from an industrywide uh survey on what the normal diameters that you normally interact with and uh for those diameters The Tool uh is sufficiently capable of handling those Jo to add that yeah do you hear me yeah I was asking is said anything that I missed that you want to add oh oh oh I'm sorry yeah uh no that's no that's a great response and and again I was mention TVC requirements and and that's that's another thing that uh I know you guys have asked and let us know how you're doing it so so we could fit it in into the program thank you Joe uh thank you febin uh thank you all for submitting questions s um for those that we didn't get to address we'll follow up via email um thank you both to febin and Joe for the presentation and for everyone in attendance uh you will receive a copy of this recording via email in the next 24 hours if you have any additional questions or interest in the tool please reach out to us um at technical toolboxes um here is febin and Joe's direct email address as well as our website and our um a marketing team email that you can reach out to if you have any questions thank you again and have a great day thank you thanks everyone