Long Pipes: Will Steel Pipelines Become Obsolete?

Long Pipes objective is the elimination of corrosion; using its “No Joints” continuous composite pipeline the “Fluid Highway™”.

This composite pipeline is designed to be constructed on site without joints it is “spliced” together to form a continuous, joint free, corrosion resistant inner liner, composite reinforcements and a corrosion resistant outer casing that provide the pipeline with unique properties making it suitable for the transportation of extremely corrosive fluids; such as high temperature brines and sulphurous steam for geo thermal power, to raw CO 2 liquid directly from coal fired power stations for geo sequestration. This is in addition to its normal applications for the long distance transportation of fluids: gas (sour), oil (sour), water and slurry transport.

The total elimination of all materials degradation in every form forever, is impossible; however the composite pipeline comes closest to this objective using its unique continuous construction technology. With its inner and outer corrosion protecting the reinforcements; carbon, basalt, glass or Kevlar embedded in a Vinyl Ester resin matrix are free from attack from the fluids being transported and the external environment.

Using this system, we as engineers can now design long and short distance transportation networks to handle high pressure corrosive and abrasive fluids from nuclear power plants to irrigation networks and expect them to be maintenance free for decades, to generations to come.