Quantifying In-Service Lifespan of Wastewater Hardware

量化废水处理硬件的使用寿命

• 批准号: 10022588
• 金额: $ 1.36万
• 依托单位: NURON LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10022588
• 关键词: Quantifying; Service; Lifespan; Wastewater; Hardware

nuron has developed a dual purpose distributed optical fibre sensing system to be installed into the sewers. This system not only provides water companies with essential information such as depth, flow, blockages, security events and infiltration, but provides infrastructure for communication fibres to support the roll out of 5G, fibre to the home and smart cities. By utilising sewer systems, full fibre roll-out can be achieved with minimal trenching of roadways and traffic management at a reduced cost by utilising the existing assets.Our system is designed to have a minimum 20 year in-sewer lifespan. During its installed life, it will be exposed to the varying conditions of the sewer, fluctuating thermal, salinity, and chemical levels, mechanical effects, and abrasion. Each of these conditions represent a unique challenge for product designers to overcome to ensure a long lifespan of equipment can be reached.Currently there are no off-the-self solutions to rapidly assess these varying parameters and their combined effects. Current testing methods are either not scalable and can only consider one of the parameters in isolation, which doesn't give realistic conditions; or take too long. We will solve this problem by developing a state-of-the-art test system, with the ability to vary parameters of the fluid stream such as temperature, flow velocity, angle of incident, and fluid composition. nuron and NPL will be able to produce a validated method to quantifiably assess the in-service life of in-sewer technology in an accelerated time frame. With a bespoke testing system, we will develop a standardised testing process for in-sewer technology. This will help all companies developing sewer-technology to be able to quantifiably assess the survivability of their products, aiding and supporting development of new technology. This has a three-fold impact: supporting new technology by providing a method to reliably validate new designs; reduce the need to over engineering in-sewer technology; and reduce the perceived survivability risk for new products, enabling faster adoption of new technologies. This will result in better, more environmentally friendly technologies being developed with improved life, less waste and utilising more sustainable materials. This will actively remove barriers to technology adoption and provide substantial benefit to the UK economy, job markets and supply chains.

Nuron开发了一个双重目的分布式光纤传感系统，要安装到下水道中。该系统不仅为水公司提供了必不可少的信息，例如深度，流动，堵塞，安全事件和渗透，而且为通信纤维提供了基础架构，以支持5G的5G，纤维到家庭和智能城市的纤维。通过利用下水道系统，可以通过利用现有资产来减少道路和交通管理的最小挖沟，从而实现全纤维的推出。您的系统旨在至少具有20年的寿命20年。在安装寿命期间，它将暴露于下水道的不同条件下，温度波动，盐度和化学水平，机械效应和磨损。这些条件中的每一个都代表了产品设计师要克服的独特挑战，以确保能够达到较长的设备寿命。目前，没有迅速评估这些不同参数及其综合效果的自我解决方案。当前的测试方法是不可扩展的，只能孤立地考虑其中一个参数，这不会给出现实的条件。或花太久。我们将通过开发最先进的测试系统来解决此问题，并能够改变流体流的参数，例如温度，流速，入射角和流体组成。 Nuron和NPL将能够产生经过验证的方法，以量化在加速的时间范围内评估隔离技术的服务寿命。通过定制测试系统，我们将为内部技术开发标准化的测试过程。这将有助于所有开发下水道技术的公司，能够量化其产品的生存能力，以帮助和支持新技术的开发。这具有三重影响：通过提供可靠验证新设计的方法来支持新技术；减少过度工程技术技术的需求；并降低新产品的可感知生存能力风险，从而更快地采用新技术。这将导致更好，更环保的技术正在发展，并改善寿命，减少浪费并利用更多可持续的材料。这将积极消除采用技术的障碍，并为英国经济，就业市场和供应链带来可观的好处。