Design and Fabrication of Cross Country Pipeline Cleaning Robot

  Parag V. Nikam,  Mr.Abhijeet Carvalho,  Joel J. Colaco,  Charleswin L. Dsouza,  Sanket S. Kini

Cross country pipelines are basically pipelines outside the battery limit of storage plant. These are generally long distance pipeline covering various Roads, Rail, Rivers crossing sometimes also across the Sea. These pipelines are designed, fabricated and inspected as per Code API 5L. These pipelines are lined, with materials such as Rubber, PTFE, FRP etc., in order to protect the pipe material from any type of reactions and corrosion. Various types of fluids such as crude and refined petroleum fuels such as oil, natural gas and biofuels and other fluids such as sewage, slurry, and raw water are also transported through these pipelines. In order to make use of same pipeline for transporting different fluids, it is necessary to clean the pipe before next fluid is to be transported. Therefore there is a strong demand for a cleaning robot. These are Cleaning pig assembly is commercially available and used in Industry. The concept of this project is to build a low cost cleaning robot, which will perform multitasking along with the cleaning. This project is basically design to clean the pipe internally so different fluid can easily flow through it. The dimensions of the robot are adjustable depending upon the internal diameter of the pipe. The front three wheels are driven and the rear three wheels are driver. The Cleaners consists of Brush, Sponge, Scrubber and microfiber cloth are placed on main shaft which with the help of centrifugal rotation cleans the pipe internally powered by the motor. The layer depositions can be cleaned by cleaner material placed on cleaner plate, this cleaning material can be easily changed.

Keywords- API-American Petroleum Institute, PTFE- Polytetrafluoroethylene, FRP- Fiber reinforced plastic.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1801160
Page Number(s) - 931-935
Pubished in - Volume 6 | Issue 1 | March 2018
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Parag V. Nikam,  Mr.Abhijeet Carvalho,  Joel J. Colaco,  Charleswin L. Dsouza,  Sanket S. Kini,   "Design and Fabrication of Cross Country Pipeline Cleaning Robot", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.6, Issue 1, pp.931-935, March 2018, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1801160.pdf