BOSTON & HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX), a diversified energy manufacturing and logistics company, Square Robot, Inc. and Veritank, Inc., have collaborated to successfully deploy an ...

Nuclear power station water storage tanks, located above ground or underground, are constructed of aluminum, stainless steel, or carbon steel. All have naturally occurring electro-chemical processes ...

A new robot for inspecting ballast water tanks on board ships is being developed. The robot is able to move independently along rails built into the tanks. At the moment, people still carry out such ...

Improved ultrasonic (UT) inspection methods address storage tank integrity monitoring and assessment without removing tanks from service. By acquiring large amounts of high-density UT data and ...

An autonomous robot has completed its first in-service inspection of an above-ground diesel storage tank for Houston-based refiner Phillips 66. The unmanned robot, made by Boston-based robotics ...

Oil, gas and petrochemicals services provider A.Hak Industrial Services will introduce a robotic online storage tank floor inspection service in South Africa before the end of this year. This new ...

It’s a dirty job but somebody’s got to do it. And when it comes to the expensive, claustrophobic and sometimes dangerous work of inspecting natural gas and oil pipelines, that somebody is a robot. “We ...

SAN ANTONIO -- June 23, 2020 -- Southwest Research Institute has been awarded a $1.3 million project from Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), a contractor to the U.S. Department of Energy ...

Recently, DEEP Robotics and Huadian Electric Power Research Institute CO., Ltd. (CHDER) jointly released the "Full-Scenario ...

In order to maintain a consistent buoyancy as their cargo loads change, ocean-going ships pump seawater in and out of their ballast tanks. Needless to say, that salty water isn't exactly the ...

A robotic examination of an in-service condensate storage tank at a US nuclear power reactor has been successfully completed. Previously plant operators would have to use divers or empty the tanks in ...