Airports
Airports and Safety
Airports serve as crucial transportation hubs catering to large numbers of travelers. Handling large volumes of people is their primary function. In this context, preventing hazardous leaks is of paramount importance to ensure the safety of people, smooth operations, and environmental protection.
The Innovative Solution
In pursuit of this imperative, AVA Systems collaborated with Kingspan/Logstor from 2004 to 2010 to develop the innovative Logstor/AVA SafePipe System. This system excels in providing early-stage leak detection, thereby averting potential risks associated with airport operations, safety, and environmental harm.
Environmental Protection
The Logstor/AVA SafePipe System achieves this through its double-wall construction, which acts as a protective barrier. It contains any leaks originating from the central media pipe within the inner structure. Consequently, leaks do not escape into the surrounding environment but are confined within an environmental membrane, which is the outer jacket of the pipe.
Effective Monitoring
These incidents are promptly reported via an alarm to the central operational monitoring system, along with precise data pinpointing the leak’s origin.
Towards Tightness
While no pipe system can guarantee absolute, indefinite tightness, the Logstor/AVA SafePipe system represents a significant stride toward achieving this goal. It continues to strive for greater security and environmental protection in airport operations.
Solutions for oil leak detection
Logstor/AVA SafePipe System
A Logstor/AVA SafePipe System is a smart pipe with integrated leak detection and location of leaks along the intire length of the pipe.
Logstor/AVA SafePipe System
A Logstor/AVA SafePipe System is a smart pipe with integrated leak detection and location of leaks along the intire length of the pipe.
Airports
Airports are public travel hubs that handle large volumes of people. Leaks from jet fuel or other dangerous chemicals that are a threat to safety, operations or the environment have a high priority, and must be avoided at all costs.
Therefore, AVA Systems in collaboration with Kingspan/Logstor back in 2004-2010 developed the Logstor/AVA SafePipe System, which enables leak notification at a very early stage and before the leak causes risks related to operation, safety and damage. This new solution, through its double wall construction, provides an environmental barrier against the surroundings given a leak from the media pipe which is placed in the center of the construction. This means that a leak will not escape into the environment from the SafePipe system, but is kept within the environmental membrane (the outer jacket of the pipe) and is reported in the form of an alarm to central operational monitoring via the leak detection system, including data on where the leak has started. No pipe can guarantee 100% tightness indefinitely. However, the Logstor/AVA SafePipe system takes a big step forward towards such a goal.
Solutions at Airports
Fuel Pipes, pipe transport of JET A1
Aircraft are powered by jet engines which are efficient sophisticated hydrocarbon based propulsion systems. The world is looking for alternative methods of propulsion such as electric systems and others. However, this replacement of the propulsion method is not easy and will not happen overnight. In the meantime, the best we can do is to minimize the potential risk that conventional oil products including JET fuel pose to safety and the environment. A major risk is accidental and unknown leaks that may persist over time without being detected. We are proud to contribute in this connection with the invention of the Logstor/AVA SafePipe System.
