KenWave - Model DRI -Pipeline Condition Assessment Dynamic Response Imaging System

Prioritizing Pressure Pipeline Capital Replacement

DRI technology provides accurate, actionable data, helping pipeline owners prioritize capital replacement and optimize financial resources. Our condition data enhances desktop models, refining prioritization and predictive maintenance strategies, and syncs with existing decision making.

Condition Assessment of Backbone Pipelines

Gather condition assessment data for essential distribution pipelines and transmission mains. DRI provides a noninvasive, precise evaluation to identify pipes needing immediate and/or short-term repair,  predict remaining service life, probability of failure, and provide a structural condition rating.

Assessing Challenging and Hard-to-Inspect Pipelines

DRI's non-invasive approach can assess pipelines where other technologies are too operationally complex and pose an unacceptable service level risk. DRI is deployed without interruption to service and/or system modifications.

What is Dynamic Response Imaging (DRI)?

DRI uses advanced nonlinear vibroacoustic technology to provide detailed, actionable pipeline condition data. This innovative approach combines advanced hardware, sophisticated software, and proprietary analysis to deliver comprehensive insights into pipeline health and distress level.

DRI detects variations in pipe wall stiffness, which is a direct indicator of a pipe’s residual strength, as a result of changes in pipe material properties and pipe wall physical condition, helping pipeline owners optimize operations and extend infrastructure lifespan without invasive procedures.

How DRI Technology Works

KenWave’s patented dynamic response-based method simplifies data collection across all standard pipe types, materials, and sizes, offering the highest resolution available for non-invasive assessment technologies. DRI technology uses nonlinear vibroacoustics to analyze vibration signatures from pipes in service. This analysis pinpoints the location and severity of wall stiffness variations and leaks simultaneously. Additionally, the collected data can be interpreted with pipe material characteristics to provide accurate measurements of pipe wall distress, wall loss, composite strength,  brittleness, and/or ovality.

• Pipe material & size agnosti
• Works with lines currently in servic
• No risk to water quality or level of servic
• Minimal utility operations suppor
• Easy to deploy
• Simplified external data collectio
• Globally validated project
• Data accepted by asset management regulator
• High resolution external assessmen
• Non-destructive testing