Trade & Technical
Tank Selector app from Kingspan Titan
The new FREE Kingspan Titan Tank Selector App allows your customers to ‘see’ Kingspan oil tanks in their garden so they can buy with confidence.
Easy to use, the new app gives access to Kingspan’s entire range of bunded oil tanks. With just a click of a button, the app uses augmented
reality (AR) to superimpose a tank within your customer’s garden area, giving a useful preview as to how it will look once installed. Other sizes and
shapes of tanks can be quickly and easily swapped in as
needed.
The app also provides users with instant information
about the tank, including physical dimensions, design features
(such as bunding), 10-year warranty and smart monitoring
features.
Simply search ‘Kingspan Titan Tank Selector’ on Apple
Store to get started
Experience augmented reality – virtually place 3D tanks in
your customer’s garden
Let the app transform your customer’s buying experience
– hand pick and ‘see’ a Kingspan Titan home heating oil
tank on your customer’s property before they buy.
Kingspan Titan Tank Selector is free to download from the Apple
App Store with an Android App launching soon
Quick pipe repairs
The Qwik-Freezer™ pipe freezing system
eliminates the need to drain pipework by
creating a freeze plug.
“Qwik-Freezer™ is a simple, low cost
method for pipe repairs,” said Luke Keane,
HFT® technical sales manager.
“Available from the Pipestoppers® division
of Huntingdon Fusion Techniques (HFT®),
Qwik-Freezer is a very cost effective and quick
way to perform pipeline maintenance without
draining the system, meaning very little or no
system downtime.
A Qwik-Freezer™ video demonstration is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/k_Vxv4m-SEA
24 Fuel Oil News | December 2019
“A flexible jacket is wrapped around the
pipe at the point where the freeze is required.
A nozzle in the jacket is then coupled to a
cylinder of low-cost liquid carbon dioxide by
means of a high-pressure hose. When the CO2
is injected into the space between the jacket
and the pipe, at a temperature of -78oC, the
pipe contents freeze and a secure ‘ice plug’ is
formed, which seals the pipe.
“The ‘ice plug’ forms only in a section of
the pipe covered by the jacket, so the resulting
rise in pressure is very small and there is no
damage to the pipe. The technique can be
used safely on steel, iron, lead, stainless steel,
copper, brass and plastic pipe. After the work is
carried out, the ice plug is simply thawed, and
the line is restored to full operation.”
In use worldwide by many sectors
including petrochemicals, the system is also
beneficial for pipework where valves need to be
changed.
Larger pipe diameters than 8” and the
use of anti-freeze and rust inhibitors can
create the need for the liquid nitrogen (LN2)
temperatures of the Accu-Freeze™ System in
order to create a pressure bearing freeze plug.
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