The Chelyabinsk plant of Russian United Metallurgical Company OMK has developed a new type of product for receiving and launching chambers for main pipelines. Thus, OMK is expanding its comprehensive offer for customers involved in the construction and maintenance of oil pipelines. The chambers are designed for loading and removing from the pipeline a special piston, a cleaning and diagnostic device that removes the remains of sand and paraffin deposits from the object, and also has special sensors and recorders to determine possible defects and cracks formed on the inner walls of the pipe. OMK products are designed for pressures up to 32 MPa. If necessary, it can be made of frost-resistant steel grades and operated at temperatures up to minus 60 degrees Celsius.The first four chambers were manufactured by OMK for the Gomel-Druzhba oil trunk pipeline in Republic of Belarus. Each chamber weighs five tonnes, has a diameter of 720 mm, is almost 12 meters long and is designed for operation on oil trunk pipelines. In 2016, the company manufactured similar devices for field oil pipelines with a diameter of up to 320 mm.The uniqueness of the camera, manufactured at the OMK plant in Chelyabinsk, lies in the fact that conventional quick-release bayonet locks are used both on the main and on the auxiliary reserve housing of the camera to trigger a diagnostic device. This reduces the time required to launch a special piston and to perform pipeline cleaning and diagnostics.The camera was manufactured in a modular design and equipped with a tray, pallet, traction device, cantilever crane, service platforms and other equipment. For the manufacture of the chamber, pipes were used from the Vyksa plant of OMK in Nizhny Novgorod region.
The Chelyabinsk plant of Russian United Metallurgical Company OMK has developed a new type of product for receiving and launching chambers for main pipelines. Thus, OMK is expanding its comprehensive offer for customers involved in the construction and maintenance of oil pipelines. The chambers are designed for loading and removing from the pipeline a special piston, a cleaning and diagnostic device that removes the remains of sand and paraffin deposits from the object, and also has special sensors and recorders to determine possible defects and cracks formed on the inner walls of the pipe. OMK products are designed for pressures up to 32 MPa. If necessary, it can be made of frost-resistant steel grades and operated at temperatures up to minus 60 degrees Celsius.The first four chambers were manufactured by OMK for the Gomel-Druzhba oil trunk pipeline in Republic of Belarus. Each chamber weighs five tonnes, has a diameter of 720 mm, is almost 12 meters long and is designed for operation on oil trunk pipelines. In 2016, the company manufactured similar devices for field oil pipelines with a diameter of up to 320 mm.The uniqueness of the camera, manufactured at the OMK plant in Chelyabinsk, lies in the fact that conventional quick-release bayonet locks are used both on the main and on the auxiliary reserve housing of the camera to trigger a diagnostic device. This reduces the time required to launch a special piston and to perform pipeline cleaning and diagnostics.The camera was manufactured in a modular design and equipped with a tray, pallet, traction device, cantilever crane, service platforms and other equipment. For the manufacture of the chamber, pipes were used from the Vyksa plant of OMK in Nizhny Novgorod region.
