Digital Platform for Defect-free Plastic Pipes Welding (DIGIPIPEWELD)

无缺陷塑料管道焊接数字平台 (DIGIPIPEWELD)

• 批准号: 10055000
• 金额: $ 130.18万
• 依托单位: PINWELD LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10055000
• 关键词: Digital; Platform; Defect; free; Plastic

The DIGIPIPEWELD project will develop a suite of solutions eliminating existing areas of concern in the joining of plastic pipes, where new pipelines often experience premature failure during the installation phase or during service. Due to this failure model, contractors are obliged to carry out destructive testing and non-destructive testing (NDT) on a percentage of operational joints on-site as a route to ensure quality management. This is very costly, typically \>£500 per joint and \> £1000/day. The disruptive element of our project will deliver for the first time an ability to simultaneously weld a joint, while testing the results against known parameters and avoiding possible failures. Furthermore, the system will be autonomous and will eliminate risk associated with human error. DIGIPIPEWELD will offer manufacturing and self-testing of pipe welds in a right-first-time package, something that has never been done before.The technology to be developed is a digitally intelligent controlled Pinweld plastic pipe welding system. The system will be designed to join polymer pipes without defects and will be coupled with sophisticated machine-learning algorithms, enabling the joints to be optimised and recorded, whatever the application and climate. The system will be developed with advanced sensing, data processing, and machine learning to achieve accurate process monitoring, autonomous quality inspection after welding, and real-time leakage detection. This would bring a level of control to plastic pipe installation never before available.Consequently, a brand-new way to join plastic pipes that is highly controllable and reproducible and produces a joint of the same physical properties of the original pipe, offering a game-changing opportunity for any plastic pipe installation. Moreover, greater speed and efficiency, lower energy consumption, plus the added ability to monitor and report, through built-in sensors, will offer installers across the range of sectors a robust, safe, and secure process.

Digipeweld项目将开发一套解决方案，以消除塑料管道连接的现有领域，在该塑料管道上，新管道在安装阶段或服务过程中经常经历过早故障。由于这种失败模型，承包商有义务对现场运营关节百分比进行破坏性测试和非破坏性测试（NDT），以确保确保质量管理的途径。这是非常昂贵的，通常\>£500，每天500英镑，\>£1000/天。我们项目的破坏性要素将首次提供简单地焊接关节的能力，同时根据已知参数和可避免的故障测试结果。此外，该系统将是自主的，并将消除与人为错误相关的风险。 Digipipeweld将在右前的包装中提供管道焊缝的制造和自我测试，这是以前从未做过的。要开发的技术是一种具有数字智能的Pinweld塑料管道焊接系统。该系统将设计为没有缺陷的聚合物管道，并将与复杂的机器学习算法结合使用，从而使关节能够优化和记录，无论应用和气候如何。该系统将通过高级感应，数据处理和机器学习开发，以实现准确的过程监控，焊接后的自主质量检查以及实时泄漏检测。这将为塑料管的安装带来一定程度的控制，从未有过，这是一种加入高度控制和可重现的塑料管的全新方法，并产生了原始管道的相同物理特性的关节，为任何塑料管道安装提供了改变游戏的机会。此外，更高的速度和效率，较低的能源消耗，以及通过内置传感器监视和报告的附加能力将为整个扇区范围内的安装程序提供一个强大，安全且安全的过程。