HDPE Pipe Installations Redefining Installation of DN90 to DN315mm HDPE Pipe

Butt welding and electrofusion jointing developments have improved somewhat but are still the most common inherent failure of a pipe designed to last 100 years. It’s time to move on.

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DÜPERTHAL Sicherheitstechnik GmbH & Co. KG

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Pipe Coil Technology Ltd

For too long HDPE pipe installations have been following an installation infrastructure based on outdated technology. Cast iron pipes were supplied in discrete lengths because the manufacturing process governed the maximum single lengths whilst their weight also obstructed ease of handling. Even in the 21st century we are still deluded by the stick length and jointing process throughout the industry regardless of the final use or environment. Butt welding and electrofusion jointing developments have improved somewhat but are still the most common inherent failure of a pipe designed to last 100 years. It’s time to move on.

Low Ovality Technology (LV) from Pipe Coil Technology Ltd has been used in Europe for some time now to provide a stable platform for HDPE pipe and MDPE pipe in coil form. Users of LV promote and supply coils with less than 5% ovality in the 90mm to 180mm OD range, eliminating kinking failures and the need for further pre-pipe installation manipulation on site. Low Ovality Technology can also provide longer continuous coils by starting the coils at a smaller ID. With new ploughing technologies and the need for longer continuous lengths and larger diameters in coil form, a new technology was waiting to be introduced to remove the backlog of butt welding constraints and failures caused by contamination and poor practises.

4600m of DN160 or 800m of DN315 on a reel onshore

4600m of DN160 or 800m of DN315 on a reel, sounds implausible outside of the offshore oil and gas industry. At Pipe Coil Technology Ltd we are used to dealing with these sorts of lengths for pipe installations having years of handling and development experience for the off-shore umbilical industry. In marrying two areas of our expertise we can provide equipment to coil and store these example unit lengths at the manufacturing point, transport them and dispense them at the installation site for gas gathering, mining slurry lines and major irrigation projects.

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