Water pipe before cleaning.
After cleaning.
Example of pipeline pigs.
Water Line Cleaning
UMC offers the most economical method for in-place pipeline cleaning and maintenance using progressive pigging. Pipeline pigs are devices that are inserted into and travel throughout the length of a pipeline driven by a product flow. Pigs were originally developed to remove deposits which could obstruct or retard flow through a pipeline.
Advantages of the UMC method:
- It is non-destructive to the inner pipe wall.
- Long sections are cleaned (up to several thousand feet) in one operation.
- There is minimum downtime for on-line customers.
- It is effective in all piping materials, cast and ductile iron, plastic asbestos cement, concrete, cement mortar and epoxy lined.
- Reductions, tight radius bends, and pipe size changes can be negotiated.