Special Journal Issue on Decommissioning and Life Extension of Complex Industrial Assets
Special Journal Issue on Decommissioning and Life Extension of Complex Industrial Assets
The ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering
is currently accepting manuscripts for a special issue focusing on the topic “Decommissioning and Life Extension of Complex Industrial Assets.” Authors who are interested in having their manuscripts included in the special issue, to be published in March 2022, should submit their manuscripts by July 31, 2021.
The final phase of the operational life of complex industrial systems leads to a very significant business decision: to engage in life extension or to decommission the asset. Decommissioning is the last stage of the lifecycle of an industrial system, comprising the removal and the disposal of equipment and structures, environmental recovery, and post-decommissioning monitoring of the area. It involves many challenges and opportunities to make safe and cost-effective decommissioning an achievable objective. For example, the decommissioning of offshore oil & gas assets in Brazil is expected to cost $5 billion between 2020 and 2024.
Life extension of engineering systems that have reached the end of their original design life has the potential to push back decommissioning costs. However, it requires advanced reliability and integrity management techniques and an improved understanding of system behavior to sustain a safe extended operation.
This special issue aims to focus on how new structural health monitoring technologies, digital transformation and improved goal-setting safety regulations can support economic decisions and engineering strategies to safely operate aging assets. To achieve the best outcomes, automation and conversion of manned into unmanned facilities, the usage of digital twins as an effective tool for asset management from the design to decommissioning, big data analytics, and machine learning and artificial intelligence should be considered to anticipate critical issues and manage risks.
Manuscripts to be included in the special issue should concentrate on a range of topics to include life extension and decommissioning of complex industrial systems; factors influencing decision-making to decommission or extend the life of industrial assets; use of digital twins and computational strategies to predict system behavior; decentralization, remote operations, and facilities adaptation from manned to unmanned; regulatory approaches to safety & reliability analysis, life extension, and decommissioning; qualitative and quantitative models for assessing risk of aging assets; and data collection and sharing challenges.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to the journal by July 31, 2021, via Journals Connect at journaltool.asme.org. Authors who have an account should log in and select “Submit Paper” at the bottom of the page. Authors without an account should select “Submissions” and follow the steps. At the Paper Submittal page, authors should select the “ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering” and then select the special issue “Decommissioning and Life Extension of Complex Industrial Assets (SI048B).” Early submission before the deadline is strongly encouraged to promote early review and publication of this special issue. Papers accepted after the deadline will publish in the next available issue.
The special issue guest editors are Raphael Moura, Dr, ANP, Brazil / University of Liverpool, U.K., rmoura@liverpool.ac.uk; Gilberto Souza, Professor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, gfmsouza@usp.br; Michael Beer, Professor, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany / University of Liverpool, U.K. / Tongji University, China, beer@irz.uni-hannover.de; and Edoardo Patelli, Professor, University of Strathclyde, U.K., edoardo.patelli@strath.ac.uk.
For more information on the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering, visit https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/risk. To learn more about the ASME Journal Program, visit www.asme.org/publications-submissions/journals/information-for-authors.
is currently accepting manuscripts for a special issue focusing on the topic “Decommissioning and Life Extension of Complex Industrial Assets.” Authors who are interested in having their manuscripts included in the special issue, to be published in March 2022, should submit their manuscripts by July 31, 2021.
The final phase of the operational life of complex industrial systems leads to a very significant business decision: to engage in life extension or to decommission the asset. Decommissioning is the last stage of the lifecycle of an industrial system, comprising the removal and the disposal of equipment and structures, environmental recovery, and post-decommissioning monitoring of the area. It involves many challenges and opportunities to make safe and cost-effective decommissioning an achievable objective. For example, the decommissioning of offshore oil & gas assets in Brazil is expected to cost $5 billion between 2020 and 2024.
Life extension of engineering systems that have reached the end of their original design life has the potential to push back decommissioning costs. However, it requires advanced reliability and integrity management techniques and an improved understanding of system behavior to sustain a safe extended operation.
This special issue aims to focus on how new structural health monitoring technologies, digital transformation and improved goal-setting safety regulations can support economic decisions and engineering strategies to safely operate aging assets. To achieve the best outcomes, automation and conversion of manned into unmanned facilities, the usage of digital twins as an effective tool for asset management from the design to decommissioning, big data analytics, and machine learning and artificial intelligence should be considered to anticipate critical issues and manage risks.
Manuscripts to be included in the special issue should concentrate on a range of topics to include life extension and decommissioning of complex industrial systems; factors influencing decision-making to decommission or extend the life of industrial assets; use of digital twins and computational strategies to predict system behavior; decentralization, remote operations, and facilities adaptation from manned to unmanned; regulatory approaches to safety & reliability analysis, life extension, and decommissioning; qualitative and quantitative models for assessing risk of aging assets; and data collection and sharing challenges.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to the journal by July 31, 2021, via Journals Connect at journaltool.asme.org. Authors who have an account should log in and select “Submit Paper” at the bottom of the page. Authors without an account should select “Submissions” and follow the steps. At the Paper Submittal page, authors should select the “ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering” and then select the special issue “Decommissioning and Life Extension of Complex Industrial Assets (SI048B).” Early submission before the deadline is strongly encouraged to promote early review and publication of this special issue. Papers accepted after the deadline will publish in the next available issue.
The special issue guest editors are Raphael Moura, Dr, ANP, Brazil / University of Liverpool, U.K., rmoura@liverpool.ac.uk; Gilberto Souza, Professor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, gfmsouza@usp.br; Michael Beer, Professor, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany / University of Liverpool, U.K. / Tongji University, China, beer@irz.uni-hannover.de; and Edoardo Patelli, Professor, University of Strathclyde, U.K., edoardo.patelli@strath.ac.uk.
For more information on the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering, visit https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/risk. To learn more about the ASME Journal Program, visit www.asme.org/publications-submissions/journals/information-for-authors.
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