Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Subsea pipe-in-pipe structures
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Application No.: US15551271Application Date: 2016-02-11
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Publication No.: US10221983B2Publication Date: 2019-03-05
- Inventor: Philippe Benoit Jacques Hoffmann
- Applicant: Acergy France SAS
- Applicant Address: FR Suresnes
- Assignee: Acergy France SAS
- Current Assignee: Acergy France SAS
- Current Assignee Address: FR Suresnes
- Agency: Levy & Grandinetti
- Priority: GB1502581.0 20150216
- International Application: PCT/IB2016/000342 WO 20160211
- International Announcement: WO2016/132230 WO 20160825
- Main IPC: F16L53/37
- IPC: F16L53/37 ; F16L59/14 ; F16L9/12 ; F16L9/18 ; E21B17/00 ; E21B36/00 ; F16L9/19 ; F16L59/065

Abstract:
A rigid pipe-in-pipe structure for subsea transportation of fluids includes inner and outer pipes defining a thermally-isolating annulus between them. Thermal insulation material is disposed in the annulus. The outer pipe is of metal, preferably carbon steel. The inner pipe is a polymeric composite structure of bonded layers including a first, radially outer tubular polymeric electrically insulating layer, which can be of pure polymer, surrounding a second, composite layer including carbon fibers, preferably continuous fibers, embedded in a polymer matrix. Conveniently the second layer is a heating layer in which the carbon fibers conduct electricity to heat the inner pipe. The inner pipe can also comprise a radially inner tubular polymer layer within the second composite layer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180031164A1 Subsea Pipe-in-Pipe Structures Public/Granted day:2018-02-01
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