- Minimises soil displacement and resulting potential for disturbance to adjacent utilities and surface heave - Drilling the hole and removing and disposing of the soil removed is the most expensive part of trenchless installations. By using Trenchless PVC pipelines, its smaller OD means less soil is required to be removed, reducing drilling and installation time.
- Best Solution for Slip lining - Novafuse Fusible PVCTM pipes are potentially the best solution for slip lining, where new PVC pipes are inserted into old pipe systems requiring rehabilitation. Read more on slip lining for Pipelines
- More than TWICE the long term tensile strength and safe pulling stress of HDPE - Significantly longer continuous pipelines can be installed using trenchless PVC pipelines compared to any other material, increasing the potential scope of projects planning on using trenchless technology to install new pipelines.
- Simplifies maintenance and fittings inventory by having standard fittings and tapping’s
- Ease of future maintenance by utility crews as PVC pipes are the easiest to maintain
- Greater pull strength and less pipe weight allowing greater material efficiency reducing environmental impact
- Fusible PVCTM is easier and faster to install and may be possible to use for installations where HDPE is not suitable
- No relaxation period required for reconnection so pipelines can be put into service immediately on connection.
- Excellent chemical resistance to hydrocarbon permeation and chlorine induced oxidation over HDPE. PVC has superior resistance to hydrocarbons and water disinfectants than HDPE.
- The smaller OD of PVC Pipes allows the use of a smaller expander head when pipe bursting, reducing the force required to break the original pipe and insert the new pipeline and allowing a faster installation. For any given OD, PVC will always have a larger ID, thus greater hydraulic capacity than HDPE
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