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News Release from: Huntingdon Fusion Techniques | Subject: Inflatable stoppers
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 November 2002
Inflatable stoppers seal pipes as
required
The Pipestoppers division of Huntingdon Fusion Techniques has made a number of special inflatable stoppers for power stations during 2001.
The Pipestoppers division of Huntingdon Fusion Techniques has made a number of special inflatable stoppers during 2001 For a power station in Australia, a mattress size stopper was constructed to fit into a duct of 1800mm square approximately
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 25 Jul 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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These stoppers are able to catch cutting debris and cooling fluid allowing the fluid to be collected, filtered and reused, while cutting is in progress.
The stopper was 300mm deep and was furnished with heat protective material to allow it to be placed in a hot air stream at 200 degrees centigrade permitting maintenance engineers to safely carry out their tasks in the duct.
For a nuclear application in repairing submarines, a number of specially shaped inflatable stoppers were manufactured out of nuclear acceptable materials.
Special stoppers have also been developed for leak testing joints in concrete pipes to the new European Standards.
A 1200mm stopper has been designed and manufactured to enter a Steam Generation system in a nuclear power plant, through a 150mm diameter hole and block the top of the vessel to prevent cutting swarf, fluid and other debris from falling into the system.
This stopper had to be designed to catch a weight of 3kg falling from a 1 meter height.
The Company can undertake design and manufacture of inflatable stoppers for any application as well as providing its standard range which contains cylindrical, spherical and rectangular stoppers for sizes from 50 to 18000mm. Request a free brochure from Huntingdon Fusion Techniques ...
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