pipe detection Articles
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What’s New? Maximizing The Life Of Aging Metallic Pipelines With Modern In-Line Technology
Maximizing the life of aging pipelines has long been a challenge in North America. Owners of large diameter water and wastewater infrastructure face particular condition assessment challenges, owing to factors such as financial constraints, environmental concerns and access restrictions, which compound the problem. While desktop studies can help identify pipes with a likelihood and consequence ...
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Non-Revenue Water – A Growing Issue for Water Utilities
Each day, billions of gallons of water are lost worldwide to various factors, including leaks, water main failures, theft and metering inaccuracies. Not only does this represent the waste of a precious resource that many people do not have reliable access to, it also represents a massive amount of lost revenue for the utilities that provide water services. In developed nations, Non-Revenue Water ...
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Tackling Non-Revenue Water by Identifying Small Leaks
Small leaks sink big ships – the same can be said for large-diameter pipes in utility networks. While large leaks or ruptures are seen as newsworthy stories accompanied by images of water flowing down the streets; smaller leaks can often be more devastating. Left undetected, they can add up over time, contributing significantly to Non-Revenue Water, and eventually, they too can lead to ...
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Trunk main leak detection pilot - Case Study
The Importance of monitoring trunk mains for early stage leak detection In May 2018 Canal de Isabel II experienced a large waterpipe burst in Madrid that left around 1M residents without water and a 20m crater that had to be filled in with concrete. By monitoring trunk mains, emerging leaks can be tracked and repaired before they become significant failures. With this in mind, a pilot of ...
By Syrinix Ltd
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City of belmont performs comprehensive analysis on rising force mains to guide long-range planning
To help budget over the next 20 years, the City of Belmont (City) wanted to proactively understand and assess their force mains through a comprehensive condition assessment. Located in the San Francisco Bay area, Belmont serves 26,000 residents and maintains more than 90 miles of sewer mains comprising of 85 miles of gravity mains and 5 miles of force mains, of varying size and material. To ...
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Debunking Murphy`s Law - Utilities address conditions to reduce risk of failure in aging metallic pipelines
According to an adapted Murphy's Law, "anything that can fail, will fail." While that universal engineering law has been proven true again and again, many utilities are working diligently to reduce the risk of failure by taking measures to improve the service life of their aging metallic assets. In North America, with the majority of water infrastructure reaching the end of its design life, ...
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Underground, underwater, under stress: Town of Longboat Key puts SmartBall tool to unusual pipeline condition test
When much of your critical sewer pipeline lies buried under a bay of shimmering ocean water, the challenges required to assess its condition may seem daunting. That task faced the Town of Longboat Key, an affluent retirement community located on the barrier island of the same name off the west coast of Florida. Sensitive to environmental, health and safety issues, the Town has been concerned ...
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Less Reactive, More Proactive
OPERATORS EMBRACE INLINE TECHNOLOGIES TO ASSESS THEIR METALLIC FORCE MAINS Historically, it has proven difficult to assess the condition of pressurized mains that carry sewage, especially those made with ferrous material. Metallic force mains have special operational challenges that don't apply to gravity sewer systems, and due to the presence of solids in the flow, force mains represent a far ...
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Case study - Birmingham water works board identifies 26 leaks using advanced inline leak detection
Service: SmartBall Leak Detection Client: Birmingham Water Works Board Project Date: January 2012 - ongoing Location: Birmingham, Ala Type of Pipeline: Water Transmission Main Diameter: 42-inch (1050mm) Pipe Material: Reinforced Concrete Pipe In early 2012, the Birmingham Water Works Board (BWWB) ran a successful leak detection program on 7.7 miles (12 km) of 42-inch (1050-mm) Reinforced ...
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It Began With A Little Red Wagon: Collecting Real Information To Make Critical Decisions
Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD) and Pure Technologies U.S. (Pure) have a long history of working together to keep the water transmission mains in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area in good operating condition. The partnership began 17 years ago with mutual development of electromagnetic technology to inspect prestressed concrete cylinder pipe (PCCP). One of Pure’s first ...
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Is zero leakage becoming an attainable goal?
As Ofwat prepares its draft methodology for AMP8, FIDO CEO Victoria Edwards asks if it’s possible to replicate the UK’s past leaps in leakage performance without a game-changing leap in technology. In 2018, the UK’s National Infrastructure Commission called on water companies in England and Wales to halve leakage to protect long term water supplies. That means reducing ...
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Germany/Albstadt: How telemetry cuts the cost of leak detection significantly - Case study
Introduction Albstadt is a town located in southwest Germany, about 80km south of Stuttgart. Albstadtwerke are the utility network distribution provider in this region supplying potable water, natural gas and electricity. In addition to managing and maintaining the local distribution assets in Albstadt, Albstadtwerke operate and maintain two more potable water distribution networks, seven ...
By Gutermann AG
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