DEVELOPMENTS
Ian Fordyce, Principal Consultant,
Anthony Wood, Senior Consultant
and Huw Jones, Mechanical
Engineer, DNV GL, UK,
discuss
the evolution of epoxy
pipeline technology.
I
n the early 1980s, British Gas developed a pipeline repair technology to
replace the conventional repair method of welding a close fitting
welded repair sleeve. The epoxy sleeve can be used on pipeline
defects such as corrosion, dents, gouges, cracking, small
minor leaks or combinations of the above. The physical
properties of the epoxy proved to be exceptional, allowing
the original technology to be further developed over
the years to create branch connections, sleeved
pipeline end seals and leak repair solutions.
Even today, it remains one of the only
pipeline repair methods that is
Important epoxy
Figure 1.
Domed epoxy repair sleeves
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