Abstract:With the rapid development of industries such as petroleum, energy, and chemical, the demand for energy transportation and energy reserves is increasing. The reliability and safety of coated pressure vessels such as oil pipelines and large storage tanks are extremely important. The presence of surface coatings on pressure vessels makes it difficult to directly identify surface defects during regular inspections. Therefore, more efficient and accurate non-destructive testing methods are needed to detect them. The array eddy current detection technology inherits the advantages of conventional eddy current detection technology, such as low surface requirements, no coupling, and fast detection speed. Based on the basic eddy current detection experimental system combined with hardware circuits and upper computer, an integrated eddy current detection system was built. Then, through experimental data analysis of the relationship between sensor output signals and defects in actual detection, the effectiveness of the integrated eddy current detection system and the designed sensor for defect detection was verified.