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Young innovators solve water at the 2023 Xylem Global Student Innovation Challenge
Winning university-level team uses data science to tackle marine pollution.
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3 ways to protect your PCCP now and into the future
Obtaining actionable condition insights helps utilities prevent sudden and high-consequence PCCP failures. But is your asset management plan equipped to prevent tomorrow’s failures? Explore three ways you can ensure PCCP assets operate safely over the long term.
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Ask the expert: understanding the role of calibration in PCCP inspections
Behind the successful inspection of prestressed concrete pipelines lies a crucial process — calibration. This blog pulls back the curtain on calibration, revealing how it ensures precise quantification of wire breaks and leads to more reliable electromagnetic inspection results.
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Channeling utility challenges into technology innovation
Meet Brian Jo, Senior Manager of Product Engineering, and learn about what's driving the next generation of condition assessment technology at Xylem.
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Closing the pinhole-sized gap in your leak detection strategy
Finding a leak quickly helps mitigate the impact of releases on people, property, and the environment. Pipeline operators can detect and locate leaks with high precision using Pure Technologies' SmartBall® platform.
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Establish system control and reliability
The operability of critical valves is essential to control a water system and ensure system reliability. Critical valves control vital water transmission lines – the backbone of any water system. Operable critical valves reduce the consequences when large diameter pipeline failures occur.
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Five ways confirmation of containment can strengthen your integrity program
Pure Technologies' SmartBall platform can ensure product containment beyond the detection limit of any other LDS. In this blog, we’ll explore five ways this tool benefits an integrity management program by providing complete confirmation of containment.
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How can I leverage pipeline inspection and monitoring data for long-term planning?
Utilities can predict the future condition of their pipelines and estimate when specific pipes should be reinspected or considered for repair or replacement. The ability to forecast helps utilities better plan and budget for pipeline maintenance in the coming years.
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How do I choose the right pipeline inspection tool?
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to inspecting critical pipelines. Utilities should carefully compare technologies to determine how they meet your operational and project delivery needs as well as your decision-making goals. Here are four key considerations utilities should evaluate when choosing the right tool for a condition assessment project.
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How inline leak detection can support your inline inspection program
While leak detection and inline inspection (ILI) are different areas of pipeline integrity, the use of inline leak detection tools can support ILI results.
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How large a leak could you be missing with CPM?
Computational pipeline monitoring (CPM) is legislated on most pipelines in North America. While these systems are crucial in maintaining the integrity of a pipeline, they only operate at roughly 2-3% of throughput, and have a theoretical limit of 1% of throughput due to the error tolerance for meters.
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How to exceed standards in your Direct Assessment Program
Despite its high strength, steel has a propensity to dent, buckle, corrode or crack when exposed, all risks to the integrity of a pipeline. In order to identify defects, proactive pipeline inspections are necessary to avoid failures, leaks or ruptures. One way of validating pipeline integrity is the use of Direct Assessment.
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Increased regulation makes rising main management a risk priority
While metallic rising mains have been historically difficult to manage, a risk-based approach increases confidence in the condition of the pipeline.
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Is continuous monitoring only for high-risk pipelines?
SoundPrint AFO continuous monitoring technology helps utilities prevent the kind of catastrophic pipeline failures that make headlines. However, failures on high-risk assets aren’t the only concern for pipeline owners. Monitoring data can also help utilities better understand risk today and into the future to control operating costs and improve customer service. Here’s five ways SoundPrint AFO can deliver significant value for pipelines without a history of problems or a lower consequence of failure.
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Optimized valve maintenance – where to start
When valves are not accessible or operable, crews have to back up and close more valves to isolate the line. It takes longer to complete the repair, more customers are impacted and potential of damage to property as a result of a main break increases.
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Pipeline management: old pipe is not always bad pipe
Despite their critical importance, for decades many municipal utilities have operated under a “bury and forget” mentality – with little emphasis on long-term management of their aging pipelines – at least until something goes wrong.
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Repair vs. replace: a comparative analysis of large valve management
In the fall of 2017, Grand Rapids contracted with Wachs Water Services to assess and evaluate 20 additional large valves Grand Rapids’ transmission system to pilot the foreign method of maintenance, operation and rehabilitation.
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Thirty years of innovation in pipeline management
Advances in technology and data analytics now enable utilities to manage pipelines through continuous, incremental investment rather than planning for end-of-life replacement. This approach reduces the overall cost of ownership by preventing failures and avoiding the unnecessary and disruptive replacement of assets with remaining service life.
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Using the right data to improve pipeline management
With stories of broken mains and aging infrastructure attracting more public attention, pipeline owners face difficult questions about long-term planning for their water and wastewater linear assets. In particular, when and where to focus renewal funding to service these aging networks.
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What makes a pipeline deteriorate to a state of failure?
According to AWWA’s 2016 Benchmarking Survey, the average water and wastewater utility has seven breaks per 100 miles of piping every year. Tip-top systems experience just four breaks in that distance, while those at the bottom have 18.
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Continuous electrodeionisation (CEDI) vs mixed bed systems for power plants
Explore how CEDI outperforms mixed bed systems in power plant water treatment - cutting costs, boosting efficiency, and supporting sustainability goals.
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Aquaculture Q&A
A closer look at the solutions Xylem supplies for the Aquaculture industry
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Future thinking: spotlight on sustainability and supply chain challenges
Exploring sustainable practices and innovations in water treatment to tackle supply chain challenges and reduce environmental impact
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Introducing the next generation of water monitoring and control
Discover how the Rivo™ System transforms water treatment management with seamless integration, improved efficiency, and future-ready capabilities