Pipeline apparatus
AssigneePipe Transformation Ltd
InventorRobert Peter Enston
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Abstract
Pipeline apparatus comprising a housing including a riser and a pipeline connector and a device configured to interact with fluid flowing through the pipeline connector, a mounting structure for releasably mounting the device in the riser and seal situated between an inner surface of the riser and an outer surface of the mounting structure, the seal configured to seal against egress of fluid from the apparatus, the mounting structure and the riser each including a part of a locking structure for releasably locking the device in the riser, the device situated in the pipeline connector.
Claims18
A pipeline apparatus comprising a housing including a riser and a pipeline connector and a device including an impeller, said impeller configured to interact with fluid flowing through the pipeline connector, a mounting means for releasably mounting the device in the riser and seal means situated between an inner surface of the riser and an outer surface of the mounting means, the seal means configured to seal against egress of fluid from the apparatus, the mounting means and the riser each including a part of a locking means for releasably locking the device in the riser, the device situated in the pipeline connector, wherein the apparatus further comprises an electric machine and a signal processor, the electric machine and the signal processor mounted within the mounting means (25, 211) and wherein said electric machine and said impeller are connected together by a shaft, and wherein when the device is mounted in the riser the impeller is situated in the pipeline connector for interaction with the fluid flowing through said pipeline connector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.