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ExplorerTM
Head: Hagen Schempf
Contact: Hagen Schempf (hagen@rec.ri.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave))
Mailing address:
National Robotics Engineering Consortium
Ten 40th Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
Associated center: NREC
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This page last updated - January 1999.
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The ExplorerTM project teams the NREC with the New York Gas Group (NYGAS), NASA and the Department of Energy in a three phase program to produce a teleoperated long-range untethered video-inspection of live distribution gas-mains.
Benefits
- 'Live' pipeline long-range visual inspection for corrosion, leakage and debris in one access
- Preventive maintenance and job-planning system for urban distribution lines
- Potential to reduce costly annual emergency leakage repairs in highly populated metropolitan & urban areas
- Large potential for repair-cost reduction through proper repair-method selection based on visual inspection applicable to many emergency repairs nationwide
ExplorerTM will have the following advantages over existing gas-main inspection systems:
- Travels longer distances from one access without interrupting service
- Can pass through straight and elbowed pipe
- Automotive in both 6" and 8" gas-mains.
- Relatively quick to deploy
- Untethered
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Email Address |
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Hagen Schempf |
Principal Systems Scientist |
hagen@rec.ri.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave) |
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