Worldwide Applications. Water penetration: a major threat to treasures in museum basements

Worldwide Applications

Water penetration: a major threat to treasures in museum

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TraceTek water leak detection systems are being installed throughout the Shanghai World Financial Center - one of the world’s tallest buildings. To prevent disruption to business continuity, water sensing cables are being located in all sensitive environments, like the building’s data centers, computer rooms etc., and in close proximity to water services.

Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox for Mori Building Co. Ltd., the Shanghai World Financial Center, in the People’s Republic of China, has 101 floors above ground and towers to a height of 492 meters. It is a 4 million sq ft. mixed use facility comprising prestige office space for world banks and financial institutions, a 180 room 5-star hotel, retail shopping mall, international conference facilities and observation decks.

Johnson Controls is providing the integrated BMS for this landmark development and part of this responsibility includes the provision of water leak detection within the building.

Some 4km of TraceTek water sensing cable and 80 electronic control modules are being installed to safeguard data centers, computer rooms, air conditioning plant, kitchens and a swimming pool. With its global presence, Tyco Thermal Controls was recognized as a secure partner for this major project and has been contributing ‘local’ technical support on leak detection right from the design phase.

Leak Detection Systems For Shanghai World Financial Centre

- AbdulJalil Triumph at Dubai Mall- Ras Laffan- Triple Bonanza - IDC Mumbai – Industrial Training

AbdulJalil Triumph at Dubai Mall

AbdulJalil Industrial Development, Tyco Thermal Controls commercial distributor for UAE, has the TraceTek® purchase order for the world's largest mall from the owners Emaar properties.

This order represented a bill of materials that included 3.3 kilometers of TT3000 sensing cables, 4 TTSIM-1 and 1 TTDM-128. They have also decided to use the TraceTek supervisor software, will be fully integrated with the BMS of Johnson Controls.

AbdulJalil became aware of a leak detection requirement during their discussions Juma Al Majeed-Mapco J.V. It was not easy for the main contractor, AbdulJalil to win the customer's confidence and gain the business. The wonderful support given by the Tyco Thermal Controls team, a collection of competitive information and close liaison with operational units at the customer's end, helped AbdulJalil clinch the deal. They were able to convince the client of their ability to meet expectations and deadlines.

The consultants for this project are Meinhart P.t.e Ltd-Singapore and Project Management is by Turner Construction International.

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TT1000 is installed in buildings throughout

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Hidden leaks under control

• The major risk is to have an undetected leak under one of the four crude oil tanks,

• The solution has been to bury one kilometer ( 4 times 250 meters) of TT5000 cable around the perimeter of the tanks.

• Benefits: the tanks will be monitored 24h a day, 7 days a week.



Emergency plan triggering system

• The risk was to have undetected leaks in the bunds around the tanks in the refinery

• The solution has been to install multiple TT-FFS device in the sump at the lower point of the bund.

• Features: one Fast Fuel Sensor is mounted on a floating device to detect the presence of floating hydrocarbons on the top of water while a second TT-FFS is fixed at the lower point to detect sinking hydrocarbons.

Emergency plan triggering system

Cracks in water drains & floating roof monitoring

system

• TT-FFS in concrete ring where the rain water from the roof is collected.

• Fixed TT-FFS before the valve leading to the main rain water collector is there to prevent any leak in the sewerage system.


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How to detect leaks from over fill and leaks from fittings on

the side of the tank

Fuel line protectionSystem installation

Airport fuel lines monitoring system

Transfer pipeline under continued surveillance

Airport jetties

• Leak detection system alongside main fuel line

Tank farm in the UK

Pipe systems from small oil ports can pose ecological threats

Case Studies: Pipelines traversing beaches on Mayotte Island, Tanzania and on the coast of Chile

THE RISKAt small oil ports around the world, tankers often unload their cargo of crude oil or refined fuels into small pipe systems that traverse ecologically sensitive beach and dune zones. Where operation is intermittent and pipeline lengths relatively short, traditional SCADA-based leak detection systems which rely on predictable constant flow rates are rendered ineffective. In fact even large leaks during off-loading may go completely undetected, compromising operators’ environmental responsibility and devastating the local ecology.

THE SOLUTIONTyco Thermal Controls is able to offer companies facing this risk with a better solution with TraceTek TT5000 - one of the only effective leak detection systems for such critically environmentally sensitive areas. The TraceTek TT5000 pipeline monitoring system uses specialist hydrocarbon leak detection cable buried inside slotted conduit in the same trench as the pipework. Once installed, with as many individual 1km circuits as necessary, the system can monitor the entire pipeline and detect and pinpoint the location of a leak to +/- 1 metre. Each circuit has its own Sensor Interface Module (SIM) and up to 128 SIMs can be networked back to the alarm and user interface panel.

SPECIFIC APPLICATIONShort pipeline systems, on Mayotte Island, Tanzania and on the coast of Chile are just two of the locations with beach and dune zones where operators with environmental concerns have employed TT5000 fuel sensor cables as their primary leak detection system. In both cases they have been installed along with the single wall steel pipes to provide a long-term monitoring and leak alert capability.

THE RISKCoast Oil Co. is one of the USA’s largest distributors of gasoline, diesel fuel and lubricants At its San Jose tank farm, the company has twelve closely grouped small diameter tanks. The challenge was to retro-fit this facility with and effective leak detection system to monitor the soil beneath the tanks without interrupting commercial operations.

THE SOLUTIONTTC provided the solution with TT5000 sensing cable installed within PVC conduit in the soil beneath fuel tanks. Any spillage is drawn into the conduit by capillary action.

SPECIFIC APPLICATIONAt this tank farm, rather than continuous monitoring, Coast Oil operators opted to make for periodic measurements with a battery-powered TraceTek test instrument at junction boxes on vertical risers. The Company’s rationale was simply to detect minor floor plate leaks while still small seepage and consequently taking a few extra days to interrogate the system will have little or no impact on the cost or volume of soil remediation. Whilst the closeness of the tanks posed working space limitations for the installers, they overcame them using a small, manoeuvrable horizontal drilling machine, operating an air-ram boring tools rather than a rotating drill bit.

Avoiding ground water pollution at tank farmCASE STUDY: Coast Oil Co., San Jose, USA

Horizontal drilling and TraceTek installation:

Case study: PidPa Benelux









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Worldwide Applications. Water penetration: a major threat to treasures in museum basements