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Welding...
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Say there’s a leak in a sewer pipe—and that pipe happens to be under the Buckingham Palace. How do you fix it? You’re not going to tear up the palace to access it, that’s for sure.
Repairing leaking pipes in out-of-the-way locations has long been a vexing problem. It’s a problem that the UK company, Kwik Pipe Limited, brought to the attention of Eeonyx, and they’ve been putting in overtime in the lab to solve it.
Kwik Pipe has their patent and the process and machine should be available soon—and it will rock the industry.
One option for fixing a leaking plastic pipe is repairing it with a patch or a weld: but how do you patch or weld when you can’t get someone to the site?
Eeonyx has developed a special material called Conductive Polyolefine Web that acts as a catalyst to heat and melt-join two pieces of plastic: and here’s the best part. The heat is generated by microwave energy. The conductive web layer is protected from air and is therefore not flammable. The uniformly-conductive web offers even heat distribution for no hot spots.
“I tried it first in my conventional microwave at home,” says Jamshid Avloni, president and CEO of Eeonyx. “You can generate heat in a microwave using carbon or metal, but in the process you generate fire. But fire is oxidation: without oxygen you don’t have fire. I devised a way to protect it from air: thus it creates no smoke or flame. It welded together the two pieces of plastic in five seconds.”
The heat generation in all subsequent testing has been uniform, and the joint strength excellent.
Soon, instead of digging up the whole pipe, crews will be able to simply open up two ends, slide in a rolled plastic layer and weld the plastic under air pressure (thus ensuring resolution of the leak) with a portable microwave head.
The cost and time savings offered by this technology will be enormous—another smart solution to a persistent problem.
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