Weight Optimized SCR: Enabling Technology for Turret Moored FPSO Developments

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Foyt ◽  
Cary Griffin ◽  
Mike Campbell ◽  
H. Howard Wang ◽  
Wan C. Kan
Keyword(s):  
Design Criteria ◽  
Critical Area ◽  
Enabling Technology ◽  
Optimum Configuration ◽  
Fatigue Design ◽  
Optimization Study ◽  
Coating Type ◽  
Steel Catenary Risers ◽  
Design Challenges

Steel catenary risers (SCRs) used in conjunction with a turret moored FPSO in deepwater environments present significant design challenges. The large vertical motions at the FPSO turret induce severe riser response. This results in difficulty meeting strength and fatigue design criteria at the Touch Down Point (TDP) and at the riser hang off location. It is typically considered challenging to achieve feasibility for a conventional SCR application on a turret moored FPSO. Previous industry work for an SCR application used with other floating hosts has demonstrated that SCR strength and fatigue response can be improved using heavy and light coatings strategically placed along the riser [1]. An optimization study is performed, based on previous industry work, which demonstrates that a weight optimized configuration can enable the application of an SCR on a turret moored FPSO. The effect of adding different coatings along the length of the SCR is discussed. The position, length, and density of the coating type are varied to determine an optimum configuration for both strength and fatigue response. This paper will also discuss observations which may help explain why weighted sections can improve SCR response at the critical area.

Strength and Fatigue Performance of Steel Lazy Wave Risers With Change in Configuration Parameters

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayank Lal ◽  
Feng Wang ◽  
Xiaohua Lu ◽  
Abhilash Sebastian
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Parametric Study ◽  
Fatigue Performance ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Cost Assessment ◽  
Fatigue Design ◽  
Design Variables ◽  
Steel Catenary Risers ◽  
Normative Cost ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Steel Lazy wave risers are being increasingly used for deep water applications due to better strength and fatigue performance in the touchdown zone compared to steel catenary risers. Several parameters govern the design of steel lazy wave risers including the length of the catenary from hang-off to start of buoyancy section and the length of the buoyancy section. In this paper, a parametric study is performed to investigate the trends in strength and fatigue performance of steel lazy wave risers with change in configuration parameters. A normative cost assessment is also performed to show the impact of these design variables on overall cost of the system. Dynamic analysis is performed to check the change in strength and fatigue performance of steel lazy wave risers as the configuration parameters are changed. The results from the parametric study will assist in designing steel lazy wave risers which satisfy the strength and fatigue design criteria.

Fatigue Design Criteria as Function of the Principal Stress Direction Relative to the Weld Toe

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge Lotsberg
Keyword(s):  
Principal Stress ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Stress Conditions ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Proportional Loading ◽  
Principal Stress Direction ◽  
Fatigue Design ◽  
Stress Direction ◽  
Weld Toe

For fatigue design it is necessary to provide guidelines on how to calculate fatigue damage at weld toes based on S-N data when the principal stress direction is different from that of the normal direction to the weld toe. Such stress conditions are found at details in different types of plated structures. Some different fatigue criteria for these stress conditions are presented in design standards on fatigue design. Criteria used by the International Institute of Welding (IIW), Eurocode, British Standard and in the DNV standards have been assessed against some relevant fatigue test data presented in the literature. Only proportional loading conditions have been considered here. (By proportional loading is understood that the principal stress direction is kept constant during a load cycle). An alternative equation for calculation of an equivalent or effective stress range based on stress normal to the weld toe and shear stress at the weld toe has been proposed. The proposed methodology can be used for nominal S-N curves and it can be used together with a hot spot stress S-N curve with stresses read out from finite element analysis. The different design criteria are presented in this paper together with recommendations on analysis procedure.

Fatigue design criteria for tanks for dangerous goods

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-133
Author(s):  
Thomas Svensson ◽  
Hakan Torstensson
Keyword(s):  
Design Criteria ◽  
Dangerous Goods ◽  
Fatigue Design

Impact of Soil Modeling on Fatigue Design of Lazy Wave Riser Systems

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rupak Ghosh ◽  
Haydar Arslan
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Field Testing ◽  
Vertical Displacement ◽  
Soil Response ◽  
Fatigue Design ◽  
Steel Catenary Risers ◽  
Design Requirements ◽  
Seabed Stiffness

Abstract The Liza risers comprise production risers, water injection risers and gas injection risers, and a lazy wave configuration is selected considering FPSO motion, reservoir fluid and overall project execution requirements. During operation, the risers are expected to move cyclically with small vertical displacement amplitudes (e.g. 0.1% to 1% of the riser diameter), and a key design issue is the fatigue life of these risers at critical locations including the touch-down zone which will be governed by the seabed stiffness. The role of soil response on fatigue life of riser with buoyancy has been investigated through nonlinear finite element and comprehensive lab and field testing program. Published methodologies for determining seabed stiffness values for risers concentrate more on larger amplitude motions based on the design requirements of steel catenary risers. The paper presents the sensitivity of the fatigue life at TDP to various soil model and provides insight in the results. Also included is the importance of site specific soil investigation in the context of design of riser.

Fitness-for-Purpose Assessment of Encirclement Split-Tees

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Wheat ◽  
C. S. Jandu ◽  
D. N. Bramley ◽  
J. H. Liu
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Plastic Collapse ◽  
Fitness For Purpose ◽  
Design Code ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Fatigue Design ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Transmission Pipelines

Hot tap tees of the full encirclement split tee design are currently used in the UK gas industry to provide connections onto existing high pressure gas transmission pipelines and above ground installations. The fitness-for-purpose of this type of tee is not covered by the UK design code for above ground gas installations, IGE/TD/9. A fitness-for-purpose methodology has been developed by Advantica Technologies to determine the integrity of the fitting and attachment welds. The fitness-for-purpose assessment addresses the following: • The compliance of the fitting to plastic collapse, shakedown and fatigue design criteria. • The integrity of the attachment welds onto the carrier pipe. • The use of Engineering Critical Assessments in conjunction with existing procedures to ensure overall integrity.

Geometrical Optimization and Experimental Validation of a Tripod Film Cooling Hole With Asymmetric Side Holes

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongran Chi ◽  
Chang Han ◽  
Xueying Li ◽  
Jing Ren ◽  
Hongde Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Flat Plate ◽  
Film Cooling ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Geometrical Parameters ◽  
Vortex System ◽  
Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Film Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Optimum Configuration ◽  
Optimization Study ◽  
Cooling Hole

A tripod cylindrical film hole with asymmetric side holes is studied numerically and experimentally on a flat plate for higher film cooling effectiveness. Firstly, the influences of geometrical parameters are studied and the optimum configurations of the asymmetric tripod hole are found in a DoE optimization study based on an improved numerical model for film cooling prediction, in which more than one hundred 3D CFD simulations are carried out. Then one optimum configuration of the asymmetric tripod hole is examined experimentally using pressure-sensitive paint (PSP) measurements, and compared against the experimental results of the simple cylindrical film hole and a well-designed shaped film hole. The flow and heat transfer characteristics of the asymmetric tripod holes were explored from the DoE results. The side holes can form a shear vortex system or an anti-kidney vortex system when proper spanwise distances of them are adopted, which laterally transports the coolant and form a favorable coolant coverage. According to the experimental results, the cooling performance of the optimized asymmetric tripod hole is significantly better than that of the simple cylindrical hole, especially at high blowing ratios. And the optimized asymmetric tripod hole can provide almost the same or even higher film cooling effectiveness on the flat plate compared with the shaped hole in the same flow conditions.

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