DELINEATE AND REFORMATION OF PIPE INSPECTION MACHINE

Mechanical Engineering

A pipe inspection machine is device that is inserted into pipes to check for obstruction or damage. These machines are traditionally manufactured offshore, are extremely expensive, and are often not adequately supported in the event or malfunction. This had resulted in associated environmental services limited. A Newzealand utilize of this equipment, facing significant periods of down time as they wait for their machines to be the repaired. Recently, they were informing that several machines were no longer supported. This project was conceived to redesign the electronics control systems one of these PIM, utilizing the existing mechanical platform. Requirements for the machine were that it must operate reliably in confined, dark and wet environments and provides a human wears with a digital video feed of the internal status of the pipes. There machine should as much as possible incorporate off the shaft components, cheap, and potentially onsite repair. This project details the redesign and constructions of such machines. It employees there electronic boards integrated with mechanical components and provides video feedback via custom graphical interface although at the prototypes state the electronics has been successful with cost of less than a length of the original machine purchase prize.

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