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Developed
for the UK Water Industry, our Pipe Utility Vehicle provides quick
and easy travel through circular tunnels, such as sewers and storm
drains, helping our clients to perform inspection and maintenance
tasks quickly and easily. |
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Helping utilities
to replace overhead sludge pipework, it combines a set of angled tracks
that grip the tunnel wall, with a maintenance carousel that allows
a number of the pipe sections to be exchanged or installed during
any one trip. |
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By reducing
the time spent in the tunnel, it allows work to be carried out during
very short outages.
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It allows
travel up circular tunnels where flat tracked or tyred vehicles would
fail. |
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No artificial
flooring or tracks are required to allow the vehicle to use the tunnel.
This dramatically reduces the cost and the time to carry out work
within the tunnel. |
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An on-board
carousel allows up to three pipe sections to be carried at any one
time. (In the case of the project for Thames Water this involved carrying
3 x 6m pipe sections at once, a combined weight of 1.5 Tnne) |
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Our machines
have now been in constant use for over XX months without a single
failure to the track or its mounting. A complete stress analysis was
carried out on the angled track design prior to manufacture. |
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Should a problem
occur, the machine has a number of inbuilt features that will ensure
it can be removed from the tunnel quickly and effectively. |
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Where outages
are short it is important to be able to get the machine in and out
quickly. |
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Getting the
vehicle into the tunnel can be done via a vertical shaft down which
the machine is lowered or an inclined shaft through which the vehicle
can travel into the tunnel under its own motive power. Once in the
tunnel, a simple turntable is used to quickly put the vehicle into
position, ready for action |
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