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2007 Government And Industry Pipeline R&D Forum Report

United States Department of Transportation -- Publications & Papers

Eleven government and industry organizations working through a steering committee, organized, planned and executed this forum. The forum brought together over 240 representatives from State, Federal, and international government offices together with domestic and international natural gas and hazardous liquid pipeline operators, along with several research providers and technology vendors. The forum’s goals included identifying key challenges facing industry and government, sharing information on current research efforts, and identifying research that can help to meet the challenges. The organizing committee included presentations recognizing emerging technology success stories and federal government approaches to technology transfer of research during the forum.

Safe & Reliable Ethanol Transportation & Storage Technology Roadmapping Workshop Summary Results

United States Department of Transportation -- Publications & Papers

Biofuels, especially ethanol, are gaining attention as partial replacements of imported fuels and to offset CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. Consequently, legislation is being proposed to mandate a significant increase in ethanol usage as a fuel over the next 20 years. The planned wide-spread usage of ethanol will require an efficient and reliable transportation and storage system that encompasses both the existing infrastructure and new construction. The fuels are currently being transported by rail, truck, and ship; however, in order to economically transport biofuels from producers to users on a large scale, safe and reliable transportation by …

Rd&T Program Overview 2007

United States Department of Transportation -- Publications & Papers

PHMSA Mission

PHMSA Supports DOT Goals

RD&T Overview

PHMSA RD&T Program Appropriations

Pipeline Safety RD&T

1. External Stakeholder Involvement In Developing Research Agendas

1. External Stakeholder Involvement “Elements of Implementation”

1. External Stakeholder Involvement “Indicators of Implementation”

2. Merit Review of Proposals “Elements of Implementation”

2. Merit Review of Proposals “Indicators of Implementation”

3. Independent Evaluation of Research “Elements & Indicators of Implementation”

4. Performance Measurement “Elements of Implementation"

4. Performance Measurement “Indicators of Implementation”

5. RD&T Coordination “Elements of Implementation”

5. RD&T Coordination “Indicators of Implementation”

Hazardous Materials Safety RD&T

Hazmat Elements & Possible Products

Peer Review Report 2007

United States Department of Transportation -- Publications & Papers

The purpose of this document is to report findings from the research peer reviews held March 27-29, 2007 for PHMSA’s Pipeline Safety Research and Development Program. The findings and recommendations in this report derive from the scoring and comments collected from the peer review panelists.

Department of Transportation (DOT) Operating Agencies (OA) are required to develop and execute a systematic process for peer review plan for all influential and highly influential information the OA plans to disseminate in the foreseeable future.

Through the Information Quality Act1, Congress directed Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to “provide policy and procedural guidance …

Field Demonstration Report Enhancing Direct Assessment By Inspection Through Coatings And Buried Regions Of Non-Piggable Pipelines, Emat Ultrasonics, Inc.

United States Department of Transportation -- Publications & Papers

Sonic Sensors of EMAT Ultrasonics Inc, with support from Pacific Gas and Electric as well as Southern California Gas has an R&D Contract with the DOT, PHMSA, OPS No. DTPH56-06-T-0009. The goal of this contract was to develop a method to inspect the full body of a pipe without having to remove the coating or completely excavate the pipe as shown in Figure 1. External Corrosion Direct Assessment, ECDA, depends on exploratory digging to evaluate the condition of suspect coatings detected by cathodic protection CIS. Minimizing the extent of excavation required to perform an ECDA evaluation has obvious cost savings …

Report To Dot/Phmsa Steering Committee On Collaborative Demonstration Of Guided Wave Ultrasonics, Daphne D'Zurko

United States Department of Transportation -- Publications & Papers

NYSEARCH/NGA and DOT/PHMSA have an existing R & D contract, DTRS56-05-T-0002, in place to enhance and validate the TWI/FBS Teletest™ Long Range Guided Wave Ultrasonic Testing System. During 2006, the second year of this contract, several controlled tests were performed at the NYSEARCH/NGA test bed and several are also being done on live jobs at NYSEARCH member companies. Through this process, NYSEARCH has amassed the experience and facilities to test and evaluate various guided wave systems.

At the request of DOT/PHMSA, in June 2006, a task was added to the R & D contract, to conduct a collaborative demonstration of …