Cryotech Industries – the solution to your cryogenic needs
The Australian Pipeliner — April 2005
Cryotech Industries is a complete medical and industrial cryogenic service company operating across Australia 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Cryotech has performed local pipe-freezes in a variety of locations, including hospitals and multi-storey buildings across Australia.
Cryotech also has mobile shrink-fitting services for the mining, mechanical and engineering market and ground-freezing technicians for stabilising ground water environments for excavation.
Cryotech sell, service and rent mini-bulk vacuum cryogenic vessels of up to 10,000 cubic metres in coolant capacity with delivery pressures up to 240 Psi. The company’s main focus is the oil, gas and energy market where pipe sizes are much larger and longer and pressures are 20 to 30 times higher.
Cryotech specialises in undersurface pipe freezing for problem oil and gas pipelines.
Cryotech can provide pipe freezing surfaces on pipes of any diameter at any angle, and have a 100 per cent safety and success record.
Highlights from Cryotech’s metallurgical cryo-applications include:
Longest length pipe freeze solidification is 2.5 m
Largest O/D pipe-freeze is 418 mm
Longest held is 36 hours
Longest distance between two consecutive pipe-freezes is 31 km
Largest number of pipe-freezes in any one job is 65
Highest pressure held is 22 Mpa
Most remote pipe-freeze at Mereenie NT
Quickest time to find leak is 3 days on 400 km pipeline
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