Browsing by Author "Manolis, Theagenis"
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Failures of insulating joints and spark gaps on the Hellenic Gas Pipeline System A case study
Kioupis, Nick; Manolis, Theagenis; Papadimitriou, Panagiotis; Charalambous, Charalambos (2018)The practical experience derived from the field performance of IJs or flanges of the natural gas pipeline system of Greece is briefly presented. The defective insulation incidents on buried IJs were effectively mitigated ...
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Wall Fusion of Buried Pipelines Due to Direct Lightning Strikes: Field, Laboratory, and Simulation Investigation of the Damaging Mechanism
Charalambous, Charalambos A.; Dimitriou, Andreas; Kioupis, Nikolaos; Manolis, Theagenis; Kokkinos, Nicholaos D. (2020)Wall fusion of buried pipelines can occur if the driving voltage and available current is sufficiently high. For example, it can occur from direct lightning strikes to earth, close to the pipelines' routing. However, not ...