Leaky water pipes found at high speed using AI
Researchers have been able to pick a water leak within 1 percent of its location within seconds.
Apr 8, 2020
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Engineering
Study identifies top reasons for sewer line failure
Concrete sewer pipes around the world are most likely to fail either because their concrete is not strong enough or because they can't handle the weight of trucks that drive over them, a new study indicates.
Jul 27, 2020
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Engineering
New diagnosis technology for preventing water leaks from district heat pipes
Imagine boiling water burst in the middle of the road while you are walking the street. District heating pipelines supply hot water at temperatures of as high as 120℃ at constant pressure from a District Heating Hot Water ...
Dec 22, 2022
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Robotics
Engineers build in-pipe sewer robot
Scientists from the Division of Mechanical Science and Engineering at Kanazawa University developed a prototype pipe maintenance robot that can unclog and repair pipes with a wide range of diameters. Using a cutting tool ...
Dec 8, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Interview: How waste heat recovery will change the landscape
Each year industries across Europe allow a valuable source of heat energy to simply escape out their chimneys. An EU-funded project called ETEKINA has reimagined a decades-old technology called heat pipe heat exchangers that ...
Mar 21, 2022
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Robotics
An army of sewer robots could keep our pipes clean, but they'll need to learn to communicate
Hidden from sight, under the UK's roads, buildings and parks, lies about one million kilometers of pipes. Maintaining and repairing these pipes require about 1.5 million road excavations a year, which causes either full or ...
Jan 26, 2021
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Engineering
Researchers improve corrosion-detecting technology to prevent leaks in pipes
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has created the next generation of transducers that use ultrasonic guided wave technology to detect anomalies in pipes, enabling users to prevent leaks before they start. The device, which ...
Oct 26, 2022
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Engineering
Preventing hydrocarbon buildup in subsea systems
Dr. Keshawa Shukla from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University published a proceedings paper, "A New Transient Model for Predicting Cooling Temperature and Cooldown Time of a Subsea Pipe-in-Pipe Flowline System ...
May 5, 2022
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Engineering
Using fiber optics to fight water wastage
Researchers from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering pioneered the use of distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) technology for monitoring water pipeline networks ...
Jul 20, 2023
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Engineering
New technology could end costly crude oil pipeline blockages
Getting crude oil from the wellhead to its downstream destination can be literally stopped in its tracks when components of the oil known as asphaltenes clump together, reducing the flow or causing a complete blockage.
Apr 3, 2017
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