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Water Main
Condition Assessment
Presenter: Benjamin Ferguson ‐ bferguson@echologics.com
Presentation Overview
1 Who Developed ePulse?
2 What is ePulse?
3 How Does It Work?
4 What Do I Get?
5 Why Should I Use It?
Presentation Overview
1 Who Developed ePulse?
Echologics
Engineering
National Research
Council of Canada
1 Who Developed ePulse?
Head Office
World‐Wide Offices
2 What is ePulse?
• Survey‐level Condition Assessment
• Large coverage areas, Low Cost
2 What is ePulse?
• Direct Measure of Structural Strength
• Pipe wall loses structural thickness overtime.
• ePulse measures continuous band
Ex. RESULT: 10.2mm
Segment 1 Original: 12.7mm
% Loss: 20% (Moderate)
2 What is ePulse?
• Non‐Destructive, Non‐Invasive
Average Thickness Across a Test Segment
•• Average between two existing fittings
Means no service interruptions. No excavations
RESULT: 10.2mm
Segment 1 Original: 12.7mm
% Loss: 20% (Moderate)
2 What is ePulse?
••Non‐Destructive, Non‐Invasive
Average Thickness Across a Test Segment
Works on Most Diameters and Materials
•• • Average between two existing fittings
Means no service interruptions. No excavations
Does work on:
• Cast Iron
• Ductile Iron
• Asbestos Cement Pipe
• Concrete Pipe
• Does not work on
• Plastic Based Pipes (PVC, PE, etc)
RESULT: 10.2mm
Segment 1 Original: 12.7mm
% Loss: 20% (Moderate)
2 What is ePulse? SUMMARY
• Survey‐Level Condition Assessment
• Direct Measure of Structural Strength
• Average Thickness Across a Test Segment
• Non‐Destructive, Non‐Invasive
• Works on Most Diameters and Materials
2 What is ePulse? SUMMARY
• Condition Assessment
• Structural Strength
• Average Thickness Across a Test Segment
• Non‐Destructive, Non‐Invasive
• Most Diameters and Materials
Presentation Overview
1 Who Developed ePulse?
2 What is ePulse?
3 How Does It Work?
4 What Do I Get?
5 Why Should I Use It?
3 How Does It Work?
• Information Requirements
Asset Owner Resulting
Provided Data Data Point
Echologics
Field Data
3 How Does It Work?
• Why do we collect time delay/velocity?
Speed of Sound in Water
Infinite Body In a Pipe
Velocity: Velocity:
Constant Governed by
the Material
and Geometry
3 How Does It Work?
• How does the material govern the Speed?
• Water is a non‐compressible fluid
• Pressure wave causes pipe wall to “flex”
• Thicker pipe is more resistant
to this “flexing”
• Pipe resistance to “flex”
is Elastic Modulus
3 How Does It Work?
• Echologics field data collection
• Step 1: Test for leaks using Acoustic Correlation
3 How Does It Work?
• Echologics field data collection
• Step 2: Create noise source to pass both sensors
Noise Source
3 How Does It Work?
• Echologics field data collection
• Step 3: Use Echologics software to collect time delay
3 How Does It Work?
• What happens to the collected time delay?
• Convert to velocity using measured distance
• Calculate average wall thickness
Where:
v= propagation velocity of leak noise in pipe
vo = propagation velocity of sound in an infinite body of
water
D = internal diameter of pipe
e = thickness of pipe wall
Kwater = bulk modulus of elasticity of water
Epipe = Young’s modulus of elasticity of pipe material
3 How Does It Work? SUMMARY
• Records of pipe information is collected
• Acoustic field data is collected
• Leaks are detected
• Distances are measured
• Time delays are recorded
• Data is processed in office
• Average minimum wall thickness is
determined