...INDUSTRY NEWS...
WATER TREATMENT...
Water works
Hayward Tyler has delivered high integrity
gate valves for London’s water ring main
H
ayward Tyler Services, part of the
Hayward Tyler Group, has
successfully delivered a new High
Integrity Gate Valve (HIGV) to
Hampton Water Treatment Works in London.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s
Hayward Tyler manufactured and delivered a
total of 38-off 1,800mm High Integrity Gate
Valves to various Thames Water Utilities Ltd
(TWUL) sites for the 80km long
London Water Ring Main, of
which 31 were installed and one
was stored as a spare. The ring valves to the same
main ensures that drinking water specifications as the
is maintained and distributed originals, as required by TWUL. able to react quickly to customer requirements.
around London. Along the length Hayward Tyler completed We can supply like-for-like replacement
of the main are strategically negotiations with the two equipment and spare parts for Hayward Tyler
placed ‘pump out’ shafts and successful contractors, Black & products spanning more than sixty-five years.
stored water shafts where water Veatch (Hampton) and Morgan Our success in securing these contracts
is pumped directly into the local Est (Brixton/Honor Oak) for the demonstrates our continued commitment to
distribution systems. refurbishment of the original spare valve and the customers both here in the UK and worldwide.”
It is at these shafts that the HIGVs are supply of four new valves. Hayward Tyler Services provides a variety of
located within the main. In 2006, Hayward Tyler The refurbished valve was delivered to site outage, repair, overhaul and test services for
was contacted by several contractors with regard in March 2009 with the first ‘new build’ valve pumps, compressors, power turbines, gearboxes,
to the possible supply of some new HIGVs for an being delivered in May 2009. The remaining motors and other high speed rotating equipment
extension to the existing ring main – Brixton valves will be dispatched in Autumn 2009. from a wide variety of manufacturers and
Water Treatment Works to Honor Oak Reservoir Peter Gilman, Project Engineer, Hayward industries.
and a new pump out shaft at Hampton Water Tyler Services commented: “Working in the Hayward Tyler
Treatment Works. Hayward Tyler made the Hayward Tyler Heritage Product Team, we are www.haywardtyler.com
SLURRY PIPELINE...
Solar powered actuators
R
otork Skilmatic EH SA. The pipeline carries iron been installed to operate ANSI
electro-hydraulic valve slurry from the town of Copiapo Class 1500 ten-inch ball valves.
actuators have to the port of Caldera, from The actuators provide
provided a successful where it is exported. double-acting on-off control for electronic functionality benefits
solution for the provision of The Rotork actuators have the valves, under remote SCADA from Rotork’s IQ intelligent
reliable emergency valve been installed at the UVS-1 system supervision. The electric actuation technology,
operation on a slurry pipeline in emergency plant centre, half way innovative Rotork Skilmatic EH providing configuration,
one of the world’s most arid, along the pipeline and in the design comprises an integrated diagnostics, fault indication and
inhospitable and remote middle of the Atacama Desert. control module, a hydraulic position indication by means of a
locations. Here, the annual rainfall is a manifold and a power unit digital visual display and non-
The Atacama Desert in north- meagre 12mm and the ambient consisting of a motor, hydraulic intrusive, two-way
east Chile is traversed by an temperature fluctuates between pump and reservoir. communication with a hand-held
eighty kilometre pipeline owned -15°C in winter and +40°C in Protected by a waterproof, programmer.
by the mining company summer. Three Skilmatic EH dustproof and explosionproof Rotork Fluid Systems
Compañia Minera del Pacifico electro-hydraulic actuators have enclosure, the actuators’ www.rotork.com
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