When facing extreme emergency cases, like petrochemical well control accidents, oil & gas blowout handling, and dangerous site cleaning or explosive-risk equipment dismantling, traditional cutting technologies meet big safety troubles.
Normal flame cutting and laser thermal cutting will create heat and sparks. In flammable and explosive working area, this brings possible ignition risks. Besides, most old emergency cutting machines need complicated installation steps, and cannot fit bad field conditions well.
For many years, energy and petrochemical industries have one big problem: lack of stable explosion-proof cold cutting equipment that can be used in high-risk sites.
Recently, a full set near-field abrasive waterjet cutting system finished delivery and can be put into use. This equipment is made by APW Waterjet Technology, specially designed for extreme oil and gas emergency rescue work. With many years of ultra-high pressure waterjet technical experience, APW offers new China-made cold cutting solution for petrochemical plants and oilfield emergency missions.
Innovative Power Structure Supports Long-Time Running Under Extreme Conditions
Stable pressure output is a key index for ultra-high pressure waterjet cutting system.
For many common equipment, once important power parts break down, the whole machine stops working directly. During emergency rescue, continuous cutting ability is very important, so such shutdown will cause huge risks.
This newly delivered APW machine uses dual-unit redundant power design. Two separate booster units can work alone or run together according to site needs.
Match with advanced pressure stabilizing buffer system, the machine can lower water pressure fluctuation greatly and make cutting effect more stable.
This redundant design avoids single point failure risk. It can keep running for long time under complex outdoor environment, and give strong support for petrochemical emergency rescue.
Multi-layer Safety Protection, Fit Explosion-proof Cold Cutting Work
For petrochemical and oil & gas sites with explosion risk, safety always comes first.
If using traditional cutting methods, workers need to stay near dangerous zones, which increases safety risks during emergency work.
APW waterjet system built-in long distance wireless remote control function. Operators can stay far away from hazard areas.
The whole machine has many intelligent safety protection functions:
- Equipment self-check system
- Pressure monitoring and overload protection
- Emergency stop function
- Pipeline leakage alarm system
- Explosion-proof and anti-corrosion structure
Different from thermal cutting ways, abrasive waterjet cutting has no open flame, no heat affected zone and no thermal deformation. So it is very suitable for dangerous sites where fire prevention and safety control are required strictly.
Modular Cutting System Can Meet Different Petrochemical Rescue Work
Emergency sites usually have complex frames, irregular barriers and different kinds of materials. It needs cutting equipment with strong adaptability.
APW system can change cutting modules for different emergency jobs, including:
- Steel plate cutting
- Pipeline cutting
- Structural component removal
- Irregular obstacle dismantling
The built-in pneumatic abrasive feeding system can adjust abrasive flow speed freely. Workers can add abrasives without stopping the machine, reduce work interruption time.
Its cutting force is stable and will not bring big stress on workpieces. Widely used in these scenarios:
Oil wellhead cleaning, petrochemical equipment dismantling, emergency structure removal, dangerous site waste cleaning.
Skid-Mounted Integrated Design, Realize Fast Emergency Deployment
Quick mobilization is very important for emergency response. Traditional separated equipment needs long time transport, assembly and debugging before starting work.
To solve this problem, APW developed skid-mounted integrated waterjet emergency cutting system.
All related units are installed inside one whole set:
Diesel generator set, water supply system, air supply system, ultra-high pressure booster module, abrasive delivery system, complete cutting tools and spare parts.
Container type structure brings these advantages:
Waterproof function, anti-shock performance, suitable for crane lifting and forklift transport.
After arriving emergency site, only simple setup work is needed, the machine can start working quickly.
Equip with independent power supply. It can work in remote oilfields where no external power is available, largely improve emergency response efficiency.
APW Waterjet: Develop Safer Cold Cutting Technology for Petrochemical Industry
Global energy industry makes higher requirements on safety management and emergency handling ability. More and more buyers look for stable, movable and high performance explosion-proof cutting equipment.
This ultra-high pressure abrasive waterjet emergency cutting system finished delivery, it is an important progress for China-made waterjet technology used in tough petrochemical rescue situations.
Combine these advantages together:
Rich ultra-high pressure waterjet experience, explosion-proof cold cutting technology, modular system design, remote safe operation and fast deployment ability.
APW keeps supplying advanced equipment solutions for oil & gas companies, petrochemical factories and industrial emergency rescue organizations all over the world.
Through continuous research on petrochemical waterjet cutting technology, APW helps related industries improve operation safety, reduce fire risks and raise emergency handling capacity under the hardest working conditions.
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