×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Leaking pipe on elevated trestle

Leaking pipe on elevated trestle

Leaking pipe on elevated trestle

(OP)
I work at an industrial wastewater treatment plant. One of our streams is pumped from a lift station about 500 meters away along a trestle (elevated about 15’ above grade). The pipe is fiberglass and it has double containment. The inner pipe is 10” diameter and the outer pipe is 14”. Along the way we have drip legs connected to the outer pipe for leak check purposes, i.e., sight glass with valves. We have an intermittent leak, and we have identified a 100 foot section where it might be, but in order to remove insulation, get a lift organized, etc., we would like to find a way to locate the potential leak(s). Any ideas on third party leak detection companies which could find a leak in fiberglass pipe? Or any other ideas?

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources