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Major wire rod factory’s centrifuge in Japan
Centrifuge
The wire rod factory uses a centrifuge to separate oil-water emulsion, which is used in the process of manufacturing. The separated water is then discharged as wastewater.However, soon after the factory started using the centrifugal device, it caused frequent malfunctions that affected the factory's operation. When factory engineers checked the apparatus, a hard scale was built up on the centrifuge...
Customers Anti-calcium scale application
Steel manufacturing factory in Japan
Comparing calcium scale deposit before-after installation
Solid scale deposit built up on the inner surface of the pump’s outer casing
Scale deposit no longer be seen since it has become non-adhesive
Crystal particles of calcium carbonate built up inside the casing
Soft as powder, scale particles being reduced to a few millimeters in size
Overview
The steel factory was s...
Customers Anti-calcium scale application
Major chemical Co. factory in Japan
Comparing two heat exchangers
Heat exchanger #1 without Non-Scalor
Mass amount of calcium scale deposit rebuilt up after the factory’s regular cleaning in Aug. 2000. *The photo taken in Feb. 2001
Heat exchanger #2 with Non-Scalor
Calcium scale being controlled after the factory’s regular cleaning and Non-Scalor installation in Aug. 2000. *The photo taken in Feb. 2001
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In genera...
Customers Anti-calcium scale application
A Carillion building’s coffee/tea vending machines
Tea & coffee vending machines conducted a six-month test trial of Non-Scalor to solve the issue of calcium scale that was clogging their water tubes.
Before the trial, the three automats newly replaced their water tubes and washed inside the water tanks connected to the tubes. Then, they installed Non-Scalor on two of the machines to compare the device’s effectiveness against calcium scale in the tub...
Customers Non-Scalor application for glass wall in a private house
Before installation
Before the installation of Non-Scalor, the glass wall in the shower room had lime scale adhesion.
After installation
After the installation of Non-Scalor, the glass wall in the shower room had no lime scale to be found.
The effect of Non-Scalor can prevent calcium scale problems, such as clouding of glasses at hotels and restaurants.
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Customers Christ’s College, Cambridge
Christ's College, Cambridge installed Pipetector PT-75DS on its main central heating return pipe at the Todd building on July 31, 2013, to eliminate the issues regarding corrosion and single cell bacteria as well as maintain the integrity of the entire pipework.
Christ’s College, Cambridge
The Fe-ion content in the heating water was 43.81mg/L before the installation. But the level was reduced to 17.95m...
Customers Protected: Installation at District Heating System in North Asia
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Banks Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)
Royal Bank of Scotland's Building No.250, the 18-year old bank office located in Bishopsgate, had corrosion-relating issues in its central heating water system for a pretty long period.The bank stopped using corrosion inhibitors because they were cost-prohibitive and eco-unfriendly. Instead, the bank installed Pipetector PT-200DS on March 23, 2018, as an alternative way to protect the piping from red rust corros...
Customers Protected: Mingalar Taung Nyunt Water Main in Yangon, Myanmar
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Public facilities The British Museum
The British Museum, located in London, is one of the famous museums in the world. The museum stores more than eight million art objects and displays around 150,000 objects at a time. The building has a history of more than 260 years, but its central heating pipework system had a sludge problem and was urgently in need to prevent water leaks damaging the art objects.
The British Museum installed Pipete...
Office buildings-JPN Yaesu Guchi Kaikan Hall
The Yaesu Guchi Kaikan hall was constructed 49 years ago, using galvanized steel for its air-conditioning heating plus chilled water pipework*. The pipe was corroded with red rust inside, so the hall adopted the anti-corrosion pipe renewal device Pipetector, which cost 1/10 compared with the whole pipe replacement.
*It is a type of air-conditioning system that handles both heating and chilled water in a single ...
Customers Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park London
Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park London had major problems with internal corrosion in its galvanized steel domestic hot water system supplying hot water to bathrooms and kitchens throughout the hotel. To eliminate issues regarding internal corrosion, single-cell bacteria and electrolysis between steel and copper, the hotel installed two Pipetector PT-75DS on its two main domestic hot water supply pipe headers connected...
Public facilities The Guildhall, Central London
The Guildhall is the headquarter of the City of London Corporation municipality and is the world's heritage site. The Guildhall has many buildings, including the Great Hall built in the 14th century, and is listed as a grade-1 site where many high-profile functions occur.
The Guildhall installed one Pipetector PT-100DS on the domestic hot water pipework experiencing issues regarding water discoloration caused ...
Schools City, University of London
City, University of London, 47 years old, is one of the major universities located in the north of London. The university had major issues related to internal corrosion in its central heating system resulting in a high level of iron in the water. To protect the entire pipework, the educational institute installed one Pipetector PT-200DS on the system's main supply pipe on June 13, 2013.
Before the ins...
Customers Protected: Domestic cold tap water pipe at a 20-year-old apartment, PLP pipe
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Public facilities Palace of Westminster
The Palace of Westminster is one of the most famous buildings in the world. It is located on the North bank of River Thames and was built in the 1860s approximately. One of the buildings had a major problem of internal corrosion in its central heating system.So, to protect all the central heating systems completely, the Parliament installed one Pipetector PT-75DS installed on a central heating supply pipe on April...
Customers Protected: Lakeshore Water Main in Hokkaido, Japan
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Banks Société Générale Bank
Société Générale Bank is one of the main banking enterprises in Europe. Of its offices, the one at Tower Hill, London, had major issues regarding corrosion in its central heating pipework system.To protect the pipework from internal corrosion, the bank installed Pipetector PT-200DS on September 26, 2008.
Iron-ion content in the hot water was reduced from 21.0 mg/ℓ to 0.36 mg/ℓ six weeks after the inst...
Customers Millennium Hotel London Mayfair
Millennium Hotel London Mayfair is one of the most prestigious hotels situated in Central London, once being a residence of the Duchess of Kendal during the 18th Century.
To protect pipes against internal corrosion, the hotel installed one Pipetector PT-200DS on its central heating water pipework.
After the installation, iron-ion content in the water dramatically decreased to 0.16 mg/ℓ from 15.7 mg/ℓ within ...
Customers The Old House at Shepperton Studios
Shepperton Studios
Shepperton Studios is a venerable film studio originally built back in 1689. The Old House within the studio's property was used as a domestic dwelling for over two hundred years before it was caught on fire in 1876. The house was then laid unoccupied for about 25 years until it was fully restored in 1902. In 1936, the studio was subject to another refurbishment providing simple lodging and...
Hotels Holiday Inn London Heathrow M4 Jct.4
Holiday Inn London Heathrow M4 Jct.4
Built sometime during the 1970s, Holiday Inn London Heathrow M4 Jct. 4 is a major UK hotel with 617 guest rooms. It takes only a couple of minutes by car to go to the hotel from Heathrow Airport, the largest international airport in the nation.
The hotel was suffering from problems that stemmed from internal corrosion, such as many pinholes on its chilled water pipework...
Customers Maudsley Hospital
Maudsley Hospital
With a capacity of 250 beds, Maudsley Hospital is an NHS Foundation Trust psychiatric hospital located in South London.
The hospital has two independent domestic hot water systems; one with a hot water cylinder and the other with two such cylinders connected to each other via hot water pipe.
To protect both pipe systems from internal corrosion and single-cell bacteria, the hospital i...
Customers Buckingham Palace
Building appearance
Buckingham Palace was built in 1703 for the Duke of Buckingham and became the royal residence of the British monarch upon the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837. The palace has now 775 rooms and is used as an office and residence of Her Majesty the Queen.
Although some old pipes were replaced, others supplying hot water throughout the palace were kept unchanged, causing problems regard...
Customers Thistle Westminster Hotel
Located in Victoria, London, Thistle Westminster Hotel is one of the deluxe modern hotels with 134 guest rooms managed by Land Securities, a leading property company in the UK.
To protect the hotel's hot water pipework, the hotel installed two Pipetector PT-75DS on its independent domestic hot water headers supplying hot water throughout the hotel.
24 days after the installation, water's average iron content c...
Customers Office Victoria
Office Victoria is located next to the Thistle Westminster Hotel, where Pipetector is also adopted, and the office is managed by Land Securities, one of the UK’s leading property companies.
To protect its hot water pipework from internal corrosion, the office installed one Pipetector PT-50DS on a 2-inch hot water cylinder connected to a galvanized steel flow pipe on January 5, 2007.
After 24 days, the average ...
Hotels Royal Garden Hotel London
Royal Garden Hotel London
Royal Garden Hotel London in Kensington, England, belongs to one of the most prestigious hotel chains in the world. It was built in 1965, renovated from 1994 to 1996, and now contains 400 guest rooms. To protect the hotel’s domestic hot water pipe systems from internal corrosion, the hotel installed Pipetector PT-200DS, PT-100DS, and PT-75DS onto three independent hot water flow head...
Customers Bournemouth Highcliff Marriott Hotel
Bournemouth Highcliff Marriott Hotel
Bournemouth Highcliff Marriott Hotel is one of the prestigious hotels in the UK constructed in 1878. The hotel, having 160 rooms, decided to adopt Pipetector on its domestic hot and cold-water pipework systems at an urgent request from Marriott International Hotel Group to protect the piping systems from internal corrosion.
The hotel installed two Pipetector PT-50DS on...
Hospitals Whittington Hospital (NHS Foundation Trust)
Whittington Hospital (NHS Foundation Trust)
Whittington Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in North London, built during the 1860s. The boiler plant room supplies hot water to the entire hospital complex with an iron pipeline, mostly 30 to 40 years old. This system also supplies the water to the areas of day surgery, administration and sterile services located within Block C.To protect the entire pipewo...
Customers British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC
British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, is the UK's national broadcasting company established in 1953. BBC's Main Block and Stage 5 buildings, where television programs are broadcast in White City, had a major problem of corrosion in their condenser water pipework systems. To protect those systems from internal corrosion, the TV station decided to adopt an anti-corrosion d...
Commercial facilities Harrods
Harrods
Located in London, Harrods is one of the most famous UK department stores, having a long history since its open in 1849. Its domestic hot water pipework was approx. 25-30 years old and was using galvanized steel for the pipeline. Harrods was experiencing clogs and water discoloration problems due to internal corrosion in its tubes supplying hot water throughout the store.
Header pipe of the dom...
Hotels Hilton Hotel Portsmouth
Hilton Hotel Portsmouth
Hilton Hotel Portsmouth belonged to one of the most prestigious hotel chains in the world. The hotel with 120 bedrooms had major problems regarding its 25-year-old central heating and domestic hot water pipework systems becoming partially blocked with internal corrosion. The facility needed to flush out to solve the issues, such as deteriorated heat exchanger efficiency. Still, a maint...
Commercial facilities-JPN A major bookstore chain headquarters in Shinjuku, Tokyo
A major bookstore chain’s Shinjuku HQ, which was built *57 years ago, is one of the historically valuable structures designated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. As the building aged, the bookshop was alarmed by the deterioration of its air-conditioning heating and chilled water pipe system stretched throughout the building; the piping was damaged by internal corrosion.
*As of 2021
To deal with the...
Customers Ross House
Ross House
Ross House is an office building located in Enfield, London. Established in 1970, it is owned by Data Connection Co., one of the largest IT companies in the UK.
Ross House suffered from a major problem: its hot water pipework had water discoloration caused by corrosion contamination.
Pipetector
Before the installation, hot water was sampled from a tap and showed an iron content at ...
Customers Fenchurch Building
Fenchurch Building
The Fenchurch, an office building approximately a hundred years old, is owned by one of the largest property owners and developers in the UK, Land Securities Ple.
A major refit took place at the office block thirty years ago, but the domestic hot water pipework of the Fenchurch was contaminated with corrosion.
Water testing detected a high level of iron content, and discolored water w...
Customers Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Addenbrooke’s Hospital is one of the largest medical centers in the UK. The hospital has more than 1,000 beds and is administrated by Cambridge University Hospital. The Addenbrookes' moved to its present location in the southern area of Cambridge in 1976.
The hospital’s engineering group was troubled by issued regarding corrosion in its domestic hot water systems covering Building C ...
Customers Robert Debré maternal and child protection center in Rueil-Malmaison, France
Owned by the city of Rueil-Malmaison in France, Robert Debré is a medical center providing health care for mothers and children.
The institution decided to introduce Pipetector for its over 20-year-old domestic hot water pipe system to protect it from internal corrosion.
The hot water's iron-ion content was 0.79 mg/ℓ, and discolored water was also coming out of taps before the installation of Pipetector.
...
Other A water authority in Romania
A water authority in Romania
The 20-year-old water authority in Romania was using iron pipes for its water distribution pipe.
Prior to the installation of Pipetector, the authority sampled the water at four points, which were respectively 15-20, 20-30, 350-400 and 450-500 meters away from the due installation location (pipe).
The levels of iron content in the samples were 0.5 mg/L, 0.5 mg/L, 2.5 mg/L a...
Factories-JPN DPE Factory
Pipetector was installed on the outlet pipe of elevated tank at the photo service factory building in November 2000.
It has been 35 years since this building was built, and since the water supply pipe was made of Steel Galvanized Pipe (SGP), it was suffering from red colored water.
Other methods such as magnet, electric power, and ceramics can wash off corrosion developed inside pipework to worsen the...
Commercial facilities-JPN Teikoku Gekijyou (Imperial Theatre)
Teikoku Gekijyou (Imperial Theatre)
Pipetector has accomplished taking care of corrosion inside domestic tap and air-conditioning water pipes at a 55-year-old commercial building. It has one of the most renowned musical theatres across the nation: Teikoku Gekijyou (Imperial Theatre). Besides the theatre, it contains restaurants, business offices, museums and other tenants.
The facility was suffering from ...
Hospitals-JPN Japanese Red Cross Medical Center
Japanese Red Cross Medical Center
Since chemical inhibitors are not allowed to use to protect water pipes from being damaged by corrosion because it is no good for health. Corrosion colored water was found in many rooms, so PIPETECTOR, which does not need the construction work to stop water supplying, was installed in order to stop corrosion and prolong the water supply pipes for more than 40 years.
6 week...
Factories-JPN Food Factory in Shizuoka Prefecture
The food factory
It has been 11years since the food factory was built, and High Impact Vinyl Pipes (HI-VP) have been used. The factory has used well water.
Generally, well water has more bacteria than tap water, and it causes to form and grow slime easily.
Pipetector was installed in order to prevent growing the bacteria in the cooling tower of the food factory.
As the result, algae of the cooling t...
Customers Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (Kyushu Factory)
Before the installation
Magnetite 4.0%
Inside of the cooling water pipe was seriously blockaded caused by corrosion. Therefore, the clogged cooling water pipe for the welding robot stopped the whole production line often.
9 months after the installation
Magnetite 43.6%
The corrosion was reduced to magnetiteand clogs of the cooling water pipe disappeared. So, the whole productio...