EP2906968A1 - Method for monitoring soil erosion around buried devices, instrumented device and system implementing the method - Google Patents
Method for monitoring soil erosion around buried devices, instrumented device and system implementing the methodInfo
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- the invention relates to a method for monitoring the soil erosion or the scouring around buried devices such as cables or pipes.
- the invention relates also to an instrumented device and a system implementing the method .
- the field of the invention is, but not limited to, the monitoring of underwater pipes or cables.
- Subsea electrical power cables are usually buried in the seabed. Normally, the cable running underwater is covered everywhere by a certain amount of rock and sands used as protection.
- the cable may be uncovered by fishing activities (trailing fishing nets may move rocks and erode the seabed), dragging anchors, seabed migration due to see current etc. At some point, the cable may even become exposed to see water.
- the cable may be moved sideways by ice, anchors, fishing nets, etc.
- the resulting strain may potentially exceed cable rating, leading to reduced lifetime and/or cable breakage. This is the case for instance in Alaska with combined action of ice and seabed migration.
- the cable may become free hanging between both sides of the eroded area, resulting in additional strain and possibly breakage due to bending.
- exposed cable may locally impact the nearby sea life due to local temperature increase.
- Germany for instance, by law, some soil thickness must be guaranteed and the cable is surveyed once a year to check the integrity of the sand layer.
- the cable integrity is in the interest of the cable user whilst wild life protection is in the interest of local government.
- the scouring effect must be at least recognized for efficient repair, and possibly monitored so that action can be taken prior to the cable being exposed.
- This issue is of course not limited to electrical cable but appl ies also to subsea pipes or d ucts such as pipel ines, flow lines, umbilicals, and optical communication cables which are also protected by layers of sand or rock when lying on the seabed .
- the system described in this paper comprises a thermal cable running paral lel to the pipel ine.
- Th is thermal cable comprises a heating element which generates heat by Joule losses, and a Distributed Temperature Sensor ( DTS) for measuring locally the temperature of the heating element.
- DTS Distributed Temperature Sensor
- the DTS is a Bril louin optical sensor which allows measuring the temperature along optical fibers running against the heating element.
- the electrical power in the heating element is varied dynamically, causing local temperatures variations which are measured by the DTS.
- the authors are able to localize portions of the thermal cable which are surrounded by water instead of soil .
- this method does not al low detecting scou ring before a portion of the pipel ine or the cable is completely out of soil, which is quite late and does not al low for preventive actions to be undertaken .
- the method req aries a specific heating element powered with a dynamical ly varying electrical power.
- This heating element ind uces excess power losses, especial ly for long distance cables or pipel ines. It is an object of the invention to provide a method for the monitoring of soil erosion and scouring around cables or pipes which avoids the drawbacks of the prior art.
- Such objects are accomplished through a method for monitoring the thickness of soil between a soil surface and a device buried in said soil, possibly underwater, the device comprising at least one heat source, the method comprising steps of:
- the thermal distribution function may comprise a static or a quasi-static function.
- the thermal distribution function comprises no time- dependant parameters.
- the parameters may be slowly varying with time, but each calculation of the thermal distribution function uses steady values or snapshots of these parameters.
- the thermal distribution function may take into account at least one of the following elements:
- the power dissipation in the heat source(s) may take into account resistive losses due to electrical currents flowing in an electrical conductor in the device;
- the power dissipation in the heat source(s) may take into account temperatures of fluids flowing in the device;
- the temperature at the soil surface may be the temperature of water covering said soil surface, for instance when the device is buried in the seabed or a riverbed.
- the method of the invention may further comprise a step of computing the thermal distribution function using at least one of the following method :
- the method of the invention may further comprise steps of:
- the method of the invention may further comprise at least one of the following steps:
- Such comparisons may be used to improve the accuracy and/or the reliability of the calculations of soil thickness, and/or detect erroneous estimations.
- an instrumented device of an elongated shape able to be buried in soil, possibly underwater, comprising:
- thermo sensing element located in the vicinity of the heat source(s) along the device, said temperature sensing element being arranged and located relative to the heat source(s) so as to be able to provide temperature measurements on several measurement locations along the device which allow calculating an estimated soil thickness between a soil surface and the device on said measurement locations, using a pre-determined thermal distribution function which links measured temperatures and soil thickness.
- the temperature sensing element(s) and the heat source(s) may be spaced apart, or separated by some distance, so as to allow an optimization of the thermal distribution function (20) .
- the instrumented device of the invention may comprise a distributed temperature sensing element with at least one optical fiber extending along the device, so as to allow a determination of the temperature using stimulated Brillouin scattering in said optical fiber(s) .
- the instrumented device of the invention may comprise a monitoring cable able to be attached to optical cables, electrical cables or pipes buried in soil, possibly underwater, said monitoring cable comprising at least one electrical conductor able to be used as heating element, and at least one distributed or quasi-distributed temperature sensing element.
- the instrumented device of the invention may comprise an electrical cable able to be buried in soil, possibly underwater, said electrical cable comprising at least one electrical conductor able to be used as heating element, and at least one distributed or quasi- distributed temperature sensing element attached to said electrical cable.
- the instrumented device of the invention may comprise an electrical cable able to be buried in soil, possibly underwater, said electrical cable comprising several electrical conductors able to be used as heating elements, and at least one distributed temperature sensing element included in said electrical cable.
- the instrumented device of the invention may comprise a distributed temperature sensing element positioned :
- the instrumented device of the invention may comprise a pipe for carrying fluids able to be used as heating element, and at least one distributed or quasi-distributed temperature sensing element.
- system of the invention may further comprise a distributed strain sensor.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a cable running underwater, and the effect of soil erosion
- FIG. 2(a) and 2(b) illustrate the temperature distribution around a 3 phases power cable buried in the seabed, with on figure 2(a) the temperature distribution within +/-lm around the cable, and on figure 2(b) a close view of the center area,
- FIG. 3 illustrates the temperature distribution with respect to soil thickness above a heat source, for 3 different thicknesses of soil
- - figure 4 illustrates the variation of temperature measured by a temperature sensor at a given location, in function of the erosion
- - figure 5(a) and 5(b) shows cut views of exemplary modes of realization of scouring monitoring devices of the invention
- FIG. 6 shows a schematic view of a distributed temperature sensor based on Brillouin scattering.
- subsea electrical power cables 4 are cables which are intended for conveying electrical power and/or communication signals (for instance) across a water expanse or a sea 7.
- Such cable 4 may for instance be used for bringing electrical power from a power station in the mainland to an island, or for conveying the power generated by seaborne wind turbines.
- These cables 4 are usually buried in the soil 6, at a depth of about one meter under the seabed 8, so as to be covered everywhere by a certain amount of rock and sands used as protection. Due to seabed migrations, currents and so on, the soil 6 may move so that water may ultimately come in contact with the cable in some locations 5. As explained before, this process is known as scouring.
- a power cable 4 usually comprises some conductors 1 with an electrical current flowing in, which behave as heat sources and which change locally the temperature distribution of the environment.
- Figures 2(a) and 2(b) illustrate the temperature distribution in the soil 6 around a power cable 4 with three conductors 1 (such as a three-phase power cable).
- the surrounding (water and soil) is assumed to be at a stable temperature condition of 4°C, prior to applying power to the cable.
- the heat transfer model of the water 7 may be approximated by an assumption that the temperature of the water 7 is constant, which corresponds to considering a very efficient thermal d issipation in water.
- the temperature of the water 7 and of the soil 6 without cable may be obtained from survey data .
- a temperature grad ient ranging from a higher temperature Tc in the cable 4 to a lower temperature Tw corresponding to the temperature of the water 7 at the seabed 8 when unaffected by the cable can be found while moving from the cable 4 throug h the soil 6 to the seabed 8 and the water 7.
- FIG 3 shows temperature profiles 11 , 12, 13 in the soil 6 for d ifferent thickness of soil, respectively H I , H 2, H 3, above a heating element such as a cond uctor 1 of a cable 4.
- a heating element such as a cond uctor 1 of a cable 4.
- the temperature profile 11 corresponds to the smallest thickness ( H I ) of soil 6, while the temperature profile 13 corresponds to the largest thickness ( H 3) of soil 6 above the cable 4.
- the soil thickness influences the thermal d istribution around the cable 4, or even in the cable 4, in such a way that it may be calculated using temperature measurements done in the vicinity of the heat-generating cond uctors 1 , for instance at a distance Hs from the heat-generating cond uctors 1 as shown on figure 3.
- These temperature measurements may be done with a temperature sensing element 3 located in the vicinity of the heat source(s) 1 , as il lustrated in fig ure 2(b) .
- a temperature sensor located at a distance Hs from the heating element 1 measures a temperature Tl ,
- a temperature sensor located at a distance Hs from the heating element 1 measures a temperature T2
- a temperature sensor located at a distance Hs from the heating element 1 measures a temperature T3.
- the thickness of soil may be ded uced from the temperature measurements provided that the relationship between them is known .
- This relationship between the temperatu re measured on a g iven location such as Hs near the heating source(s) 1 and the thickness of soil may be calculated using for instance finite element model ing and/or experimental measurements on field .
- Fig ure 4 shows a thermal d istribution function 20 which links temperature measured on a given position (correspond ing for instance to a d istance Hs from the heat source 1 on fig u re 3) and soil erosion d H .
- This thermal d istribution function 20 is calculated using finite element model ing , and taking into account at least some of the following parameters : - relative positions of heat source(s) 1 and sensing element 3, or at least d istances Hs between them,
- the heat transfer model of the water 7 may be approximated by an assumption that the temperature of the water 7 is constant, and the temperature of the water 7 and of the soil 6 without cable may be obtained from survey data .
- the thermal d istribution function 20 may be used to compute an absol ute thickness of soil . For instance, in the example of fig ure 4 a measured temperature of 25.6°C ind icates a soil thickness of 1 meter.
- the thermal d istribution fu nction 20 may also be used to ded uce d irectly soil erosion d H from the temperature measurements (knowing the initial soil thickness) .
- the parameters on which the thermal distribution function 20 depends may vary along the cable, and this may introduce some uncertainty on the calculations.
- thermal d istribution function 20 corresponds to average parameters.
- a scouring monitoring device for monitoring scouring along a power cable may be done with only a few modifications to the cable. The result is an instrumented cable 4.
- the scouring must be monitored all along the instrumented cable 4. This can be done by implementing a temperature sensor allowing d istributed temperature measurements along the cable 4, using optical fibers as temperature sensing element 3.
- the combination of a sensing element 3 and of the heat sources formed by the electrical cond uctors 1 of a power cable, under the form of an instrumented cable 4, is in fact a d istributed scouring monitoring device 4 of the invention .
- Figure 5(a) shows a mode of real ization in which the sensing element 3 is embedded in a three-phase instrumented power cable 4.
- the instrumented power cable 4 comprises three individ ual electrical cables 2 with a cond uctor 1 surrounded by a gaining .
- the cond uctors 1 act naturally as heat sources for scouring monitoring, d ue to the current flowing throug h them .
- the instrumented power cable 4 comprises also a sensing element 3 with an optical cable running along the optical cables 2.
- the sensing element 3 is placed outside the electrical cables 2.
- an instrumented power cable 4 such as ill ustrated on figure 5(a) may have an outer d iameter in the order of 235 mm .
- the outer gaining of the individ ual cables 2 may have a d iameter of about 90 mm .
- the cond uctor 1 d iameter may be in the order of 30 mm .
- the sensing element 3 may comprise a steel tu be of about 4 mm d iameter with the optical fibers inside, and a sheath with an outer d iameter of about 10 mm . So, the d istance between a cond uctor 1 and the sensing element 3 in this mode of real ization may be larger than 40 mm, in the order of 40-60 mm .
- the 4 may comprise a sensing element 3 placed between the electrical cables, in the center of the instrumented cable 4.
- the electrical cables 2 and the sensing element 3 are further embedded in an external gaining, so as to constitute a stand-alone instrumented power cable 4.
- al l elements are assembled d uring the fabrication of the instrumented power cable 4.
- Figure 5(b) shows another mode of real ization in which the sensing element 3 is just tied to an electrical cable 2 with a cond uctor 1 , so as to constitute an instrumented cable 4 allowing scouring monitoring with the method of the invention .
- the sensing element 3 may be tied to an already- existing three-phase cable as shown in fig ure 5(a) .
- a sensing element 3 such as an optical cable may be added to an existing power cable so as to allow monitoring scouring . It may be tied using for instance an external gaining, or g lue, or ties of any kind .
- the thermal d istribution function 20 depends on the relative positions of the heat sources 1 and the sensing element 3, or at least on the d istance Hs between them . So the overal l sensitivity of a scouring monitoring device 4 of the invention may be optimized by optimizing these parameters.
- the temperature measurements are done using a d istributed temperature sensor (DTS) based on stimulated Brillouin scattering .
- DTS d istributed temperature sensor
- Brillouin scattering occurs when a light wave propagating in a med ium (such as an optical fiber) interacts with time-dependent density variations of the med ium . These density variations may be d ue for instance to acoustic waves or phonons propagating in the med ium, and they modulate the index of refraction . A fraction of the light wave interacts with these variations of index of refraction and is scattered accord ing ly. Since acoustic waves propagates at the speed of sound in the med ium, deflected l ig ht is also subjected to a Doppler shift, so its freq uency changes.
- the speed of sound in the med ium depends on the temperature of the medium and on the strain . So, a variation of any of these parameters ind uces a variation of the freq uency shift of the scattered light d ue to Brillouin scattering , and so may be measured .
- the d istributed temperature sensor comprises a sensing element 3 which comprises basically a portion of single mode optical fiber 30 protected by a smal l tube or casing which is rig id enough so as to avoid any strain on the fiber along the sensitive part.
- the length of the fiber in the casing is longer (of an "excess fiber length" EFL) than the casing so that the casing may be stretched in some extends (the EFL) without applying strain to the fiber.
- the fiber is also usually embedded in a gel in the casing for a better decoupl ing of strain . So the sensor is sensitive on ly to temperature and is not affected by strain, provided that strain applied to the sensing element 3 remains within some limits (the EFL) so that it does not affect the fiber.
- the d istributed temperature sensor comprises also electronic and optical means.
- a pulsed "pump" laser lig htwave 31 is injected at one end of the single mode fiber 30;
- a tunable continuous wave (CW) "probe" laser lig htwave 32 is injected at the other end of the sensing fiber 30. Its frequency is varied with time; - pump and probe signals interact through SBS when a resonance frequency condition is met. This interaction between pump and probe signals is at its maximum, or at the resonance, when the difference of frequency between the pump and probe signals matches the local Brillouin Frequency shift. This local Brillouin Frequency shift depends precisely on the temperature 33 and the strain along the fiber 30. The probe signal is amplified by this interaction and so carries the local temperature and strain information available from the SBS phenomenon;
- the probe signal carrying the information is detected by a detector 35, after filtering by a Fiber bragg grating rejecting the Rayleigh scattering .
- An optical circulator 35 allows coupling the pump wave 31 in the fiber 30 and directing the probe signal resulting from the probe wave 32 to the detector 35.
- the probe signal at the detector 35 carries the information about the event (the local temperature and strain), and its location for processing : since the pump lightwave 31 is a pulse, the probe signal at the detector 35 carries also time domain information which may be converted into distance knowing the speed of light in the fiber 30.
- Repeated frequency scanning using the CW tunable probe signal 32 allows the identification of the Brillouin frequency shift containing the temperature and strain information at every location along the sensing fiber 30.
- the fiber 30 is protected from strain so that only temperature is measured .
- temperatures may be measured along sensitive elements 3 up to 50 km long, or even much more using for instance optical amplifiers such as Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA), with a longitudinal resolution of a few meters or less.
- EDFA Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier
- a system of the invention which allows monitoring scouring along an underwater cable for instance, comprises :
- a thermal d istribution function 20 Before operating the system, a thermal d istribution function 20 must be determined , taking into account the parameters of the instrumented cable 4 (location of heat sources 1 and temperature probes 3, ...) and environmental parameters.
- the thermal d istribution function 20 may be adapted in function of the variations of the environment (seasons, %) .
- the temperature measurement device being quite expensive, it may be connected to instrumented cables 4 just d uring measurements campaigns, or shared between several cables 4, for instance using optical switches. So, the cost of the instrumentation which is permanently instal led on the cable may be set very low.
- the accuracy of the measurements may further be improved by comparing local temperature along the cable 4, and/or by analyzing temperatures with respect to time. This may al low improving the accuracy of the model relative to variations d ue for instance to the fact that :
- the temperature d istribution along the cable may not be homogenous, d ue to the environment;
- the electrical power which flows through the cable 4 may vary with time, as it depends on the electrical prod uction and/or consumption of the connected devices. So the Joules losses in the cond uctors 1 may also vary with time.
- a reference temperature profile along the cable 4 may be acquired, for instance when no power flows in the cable 4 for enoug h time to allow the temperature to stabilize at environmental cond itions.
- the time evolution of temperature on d ifferent locations along the cable 4 may also be monitored and compared .
- portions of cable 4 which shows singu larities in the evol ution of the temperature relative to other or neig hboring portions. For instance, portions of cable 4 in which the temperature and/or the amplitude of the variation of temperature with respect to power d issipation in the cable are d ifferent may indicate that the cable 4 is closer to the water or that scouring is occurring .
- a g radient filtering mechanism may be appl ied to d isting uish between transient temperature variations and long term behavior.
- an instrumented power cable 4 may comprise several sensing elements 3. They may be used together. They may also be installed to provide some degree of redu ndancy in case of fail u re of a sensing element 3.
- one or several temperature sensor(s) allowing q uasi-d istributed temperature measurements along the cable 4 may be used .
- Such sensor may comprise a sensing element 3 with optical fibers connected to fiber Bragg gratings ( FBGs) d istributed al l along the cable 4 and used as local temperature sensors.
- FBGs fiber Bragg gratings
- the fiber Bragg g ratings may be implemented so that their spectral signature is d ifferent for each of them (for localization) and vary with temperature (for local temperature measurements) .
- any other kind of d istributed temperature sensors may be used, such as for instance DTS based on spontaneous Bril louin scattering , or Raman scattering .
- a strain sensing element may be added to an instrumented cable 4.
- This element may comprise optical fibers. It may implement a sensing scheme based for instance on measurement of elongation of optical fibers by reflectometry, or on Distributed Strain Sensing ( DSS) using spontaneous or stimulated Brillouin scattering in the fibers.
- DSS Distributed Strain Sensing
- DSS Distributes strain sensing
- DSS Distributes strain sensing
- it may al low the operator to verify that the sand bed repair does not add add itional strain to the cable 4.
- strain measu rements may for instance ind icate that the cable has been d ragged by an anchor or moved away due to the current once exposed to water.
- the temperature sensing element 3 may also be used for Distributes strain sensing (DSSS) .
- DSS Distributes strain sensing
- a d istributed sensor based on Bril louin scattering (stimulated or spontaneous) is natural ly sensitive to the temperature and strain appl ied to the optical fibers of the sensing element 3. If the strain applied to the sensing element 3 (comprising fibers protected from strain effects) exceed some limits, the fibers become affected by strain and the temperature measurements are affected accord ing ly. This effect may be detected if the sensor measures unexpected or unreal istic temperatures for instance.
- any signature in the temperature sig nal which is for instance too large to be thermal can be understood as strain, even q uantified provided that the excess fiber length ( EFL) is known, and may provide valuable information on « fast effects » like for instance d ragging of the cable 4.
- a pipe or a d uct such as a pipel ine or a flowl ine carrying fluid warmer than the environment may impact on the local temperature in a way similar to what is shown on fig ures 2(a) and 2(b) .
- the pipeline is heated (for instance electrical ly), the effect is reinforced .
- Power umbilicals also transport electrical power or hydraulic power and are therefore the cause of similar local temperature increase.
- the scouring or the erosion around a pipe or a d uct may be monitored by providing an instrumented cable 4 d istinct from the structu re, comprising a heat source 1 and a temperature sensing element 3.
- an instrumented cable 4 d istinct from the structu re, comprising a heat source 1 and a temperature sensing element 3.
- the sole function of that instrumented cable 4 may be scouring monitoring .
- the instrumented cable 4 may then be a scouring sensing element of the invention .
- the invention may also be implemented for the monitoring of scouring or erosion around terrestrial pipel ine or cables, for instance d ue to sand movements with wind .
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