Steam leaks are a significant and highly visible waste of energy. It is important to avoiding danger and complications to the public due to a sidewalk cave-ins and the surrounding buildings before its to late. Steam leaks can cause a lot problems if not detected early and fixed. They are often found at valve stems, unions, pressure regulators, equipment connections, and joints. Steam facilities are intricate systems that have many potential points of failure. In order to identify and fix weak points in a system you must be experienced and knowledgeable to be able to pinpoint the area of weakness.
Most recently ACS Underground Solutions was called in to a power plant in Hartford, CT that was having issues with losing steam. ACS took the information from the customer and went to work to find the leak. They set up a pipe survey of the underground steam pipe system. They connected to the supply and used 33 kHz to locate the lines from the manhole towards the life science building, the depth was recorded and marked on the ground for excavation. After the lines were marked out the steam was turned up to full pressure to find the leak. When the pressure built up ACS walked the line with an acoustic microphone and listened to the fully charged line. Pressure leaking from the pipe was heard and marked 30 ft from the building, the excavation team was brought in and dug the line which was 3 ft deep. This leak was found exactly where ACS marked it and was then repaired, thus avoiding danger and complications to the building.
ACS Underground Solutions finds line leaks in virtually all types of water lines and pipe materials including cooling lines, heating lines, steam lines, municipal and commercial water mains, municipal, commercial and residential water service laterals. Our leak detection technology works with copper, ductile iron, lead, asbestos, polyethylene (high (HDPE), medium (MDPE), and low density (LDPE), PVC, Ric-Wil jacketed pipes, steel pipes, and any pipe that can be pressurized.
ACS Underground Solutions | Leak Detection
ACS Underground Solutions is private family owned consulting company with decades of experience and expertise in Underground Utility Locating with GPR, Underground Storage Tank Locating, Concrete Imaging & Scanning, Drain Pipe Inspections, Infrared Thermal Imaging and Leak Detection Services. ACS Underground Solutions serves Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.
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At ACS Underground Solutions we spend our days looking for water lines, gas lines and electrical conduits, performing concrete imaging, locating post tension cables, rebar and searching out other objects such as underground storage tanks (UST). However, there are additional uses for Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) that are not as widely discussed or as common. GPR is a great tool for forensic investigation in grave/cemetery mapping. We can assist a variety of law enforcement agencies and officials.
This luxury resort commissioned ACS Underground Solutions to provide leak detection on the hotel’s underground dual temperature plastic water lines. A leak in the system was wasting large amounts of water 24/7.
ACS Underground Solutions was commissioned to conduct video inspections of storm and sewer lines at West Point Military Academy in West Point, New York for the Pershing Barracks project. The lines range in diameters from 6″-36″ with an average inspection length of 250 feet. ACS technicians had to access lines through a system of manholes more than 6 feet deep. At that depth OSHA requires Confined Space Entry.
The Triborough Bridge known officially as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge since 2008 and sometimes referred to as the RFK Triborough Bridge is a complex of three separate bridges in New York City. The bridges connect the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx via Randall’s and Ward’s Islands. The bridge is owned and operated by the MTA Bridges and Tunnels, part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
