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Graham Kane new Northern Regional Sales Manager

We are delighted to announce that Graham Kane has joined Primayer as our Northern Regional Sales Manager. Graham has extensive experience over more than 20 years in the Process and water industry, having previously worked technology providers including DREAGER, SICK and SIEMENS. Graham lives on the west coast of Scotland so perfectly placed to offer the best support to our northern based customers.


Kevin Brook new UK Sales Manager

We are delighted to announce that Kevin Brook has joined Primayer as UK Sales Manager. Kevin has extensive experience over more than 15 years in the water industry, having previously worked for service providers and in technology provision, particularly related to leakage control and network data acquisition. With Kevin as part of the team we look forward to continued growth with a focus on enabling increased levels of support to our UK customers.

Primayer presented in the House of Commons

Primayer’s Managing Director, Roger Ironmonger, gave a presentation to the All Party Parliamentary Water Group in the UK Houses of Parliament, on the 9th December, 2009. The presentation included details of how advances in leak detection technology are working, and cited Eureka, Socrates, Leak Sizer and Enigma technologies. Leak location on large diameter trunk mains was featured using the new Enigma-hyQ variant. Results were illustrated, with a UK case study, on pipe sizes within the range 300 - 1500mm diameter and obtained over distances between 242 to 681 metres.

Hearing is believing!

The new Mikron incorporates the latest accelerometer sensor technology and low noise signal processing software to deliver a high performance, yet simple to use, leak locator.

Mikron has very high acoustic sensitivity and the ground microphone also includes wind noise isolation. It has a clear digital display and a key feature is the ‘Minimum Noise Level’ indication which displays the underlying constant noise level – so it does not include transient noises such as road traffic. The system also enables the user to save recent results for Minimum Noise Level which determines if the user is moving towards or away from the leak.

Phocus.sms - Reducing Yorkshire Water’s Leakage Footprint
   
Mikron is available as three options, the Acoustic Probe, Ground Microphone or a combination system.

Eureka Digital power’s on

Eureka Digital has been available for a relatively short time and combined with the successful Eureka 2R and Enigma provide a powerful correlator product range.

Eureka Digital advances the concepts in the Archimedes correlator. Powerful digital correlation signal processing gives high performance. It is designed to provide optimum operation particularly on large diameter and plastic pipes.


The system incorporates:

advanced filtering and coherence
unique correlation tracker feature
definable pipe material + velocity
re-analysis of the digital sound
3 inputs for velocity measure

Ease-of-use is enhanced by:

transmitter integral sensor attaches
directly to pipe (allows closing of
manhole cover on busy streets)
delayed recording such that no
radio range limitation
in-case battery charging

Moscow success


Eureka Digital had further success during a trial with our partner Pergam who have been established in Moscow for 12 years.

Pergam report, “Within a few minutes Eureka Digital had been deployed over approximately 500m across a busy intersection and a correlation had been established. The data was analysed and also
stored for further examination.”

Phocus.sms - Reducing Yorkshire Water’s Leakage Footprint

The customer, based in Vologda north east from Moscow, was extremely pleased as other manufacturer’s correlators had failed to establish the leak position.

New PrimeFlo expands flow measurement products

This rugged ultrasonic flowmeter compliments Primeprobe2 where non-invasive flow measurement is preferred.

PrimeFlo utilises advanced signal transmission, automatically switching between transient-time and Doppler measurement modes to provide
reliable and repeatable data, even at low flow rates.

PrimeFlo has a built in logger plus 4-20mA and pulsed output connections to Primayer data loggers and other instrumentation. Data can be fully integrated into PrimeWorks format enabling graphing, processing and storage, as well as combining with other logged flow information.


The Primayer Rental Option

Whether for a specific project, to supplement existing stocks, or merely as a reduced financial commitment, the Rental Service can provide the solution.

Primayer’s knowledge of the equipment is second to none. This applies in terms of its application, reliable performance, the knowledge of worldwide users and the current best practice to be adopted. Furthermore, as the original manufacturer the equipment is fully maintained and calibrated prior to supply. This means those renting can quickly have the capability to fully exploit the equipment’s potential.

Phocus.sms - Reducing Yorkshire Water’s Leakage Footprint

If you would like to take advantage of this service, please contact: rental@primayer.co.uk

Equipment available for rental:

Data Loggers
Flowmeter pulse units
Insertion meters
Depth transducers
Noise loggers
Leak noise correlators
Ground microphones

Usage of Enigma by Veolia's water team

Clip from France 3 Rhône Alpes television station

Reporters:
Frédéric LLOP, Sandra MEALLIER


Phocus.sms - Reducing Yorkshire Water’s Leakage Footprint

Yorkshire Water have set up a pilot scheme in a DMA in the Conisbrough area of Sheffield with the objective of lowering the nightline to a level below that previously achieved and also to reduce the time taken to find leaks.  This is a particularly bad DMA and needs significant rehabilitation.

Phocus.sms acoustic loggers were deployed.  The loggers were simple to install and when a leak is detected it is localised by one or more loggers rapidly sending a SMS alarm message.  Data can be viewed in report format or on a clear mapping interface using Google Maps™ on any PC (with a standard internet browser).  Further

Phocus.sms - Reducing Yorkshire Water’s Leakage Footprint
Complete installation is below ground

notification to engineers is provided by email, SMS and internet alarms.

Over just one month the DMA nightline was reduced by approximately 25%.  The time taken to detect leaks was very significantly lower than using traditional methods - resulting in much faster intervention times and a large efficiency improvement.

        

Conisbrough District Meter Area

Click here for the Phocus.sms product page

 


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