Subventions et des contributions :

Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2018-2019).

JANA is a leading provider of consultancy and software solutions for gas transmission and distributionx000D
pipelines. JANA's key areas of expertise include pipeline integrity management, asset management and valuex000D
chain risk assessment. JANA is at the forefront of research in pipeline integrity management with theirx000D
state-of-the-art quantitative probabilistic and mechanistic-probabilistic risk models. JANA's corporate headx000D
office is located in Aurora, Ontario.x000D
Gas transmission and distribution pipelines consist of many parts, all of which have to be inspected fromx000D
time-to-time in order to ensure safe and reliable operation and prevent accidents. Each of these parts, or assets,x000D
is subject to specific inspection and maintenance programs. While the risk assessment is taking place atx000D
individual asset level, different assets have different specifications, individual inspection and maintenancex000D
programs.x000D
The inspections listed above may have some interaction with one another. Currently, there is no commonx000D
risk-based inspection framework for different subsystems and inspection programs, which makes it difficult tox000D
enact an optimal inspection policy with minimal costs. The proposed research would look at the asset-levelx000D
inspection methods and determine if a common platform could be developed across the spectrum of pipelinex000D
systems. The goal is to construct a risk-based framework for inspection optimization of different assets in orderx000D
to provide a common inspection optimization platform for different assets and/or inspection programs. Thisx000D
would greatly facilitate the analysis, reduce time and costs, thus resulting in savings to the clients and improvedx000D
reliability of the pipelines.