Flexible Pipe for Transporting Fresh Water, Set for the Storage Thereof and Assembly of a Plurality of Pipes
AssigneeBblm Associes
InventorsFrank Daveloose, Claude Lebelle, Gilbert Mayor de Montricher
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Abstract
A flexible pipe suitable for transporting fresh water is described. The pipe has a circular cross-section when it is pressurised and which can collapse in on itself. The pipe has an outer diameter of between 1 and 7 meters and a length of between 200 and 3000 meters and includes an envelope which is sealed from the transported liquid, and at least two peripheral reinforcing elements increasing the mechanical resistance of the pipe to a positive differential pressure so that the pipe can support a positive differential pressure of between 1 and at least 10×105 Pa without bursting or cracking.
Claims16
1-15. (canceled)
A flexible pipe elongate along an axis, adapted to transport fresh water, able to be wound longitudinally on a drum or folded in a container, longitudinally continuous, of circular section when there is a positive differential pressure between the interior of the pipe and the exterior, the section of which can be crushed on itself by the effect of a negative differential pressure, the pipe having an outside diameter (D1) between 1 and 7 meters and comprising an envelope impermeable to the transported liquid, wherein the pipe has a length (L1) between 200 and 3000 meters and comprises at least two peripheral reinforcing elements increasing the mechanical strength of the pipe relative to a positive differential pressure and the pipe withstands without bursting or splitting a positive differential pressure from 1 to at least 10×105 Pa.
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