What is Protecta-Line?
What is Protecta-Line?
Protecta-Line is an award-winning, multi-layered, co-extruded polyethylene barrier pipe for conveying drinking water in contaminated ground. Protecta-Line has a high chemical resistance due to its impermeable metallic barrier, which is wrapped onto a standard core of PE80 or PE100 (Excel) pipe.
Is Hppe a barrier pipe?
Introduced to the UK market in 1996, Protecta-Line is the market-leading barrier pipe and fittings system, with its tough multi-layer construction ensuring that that any contaminants remaining in brownfield sites and former industrial land cannot permeate into the water supply.
What is PE100 pipe?
PE100 is the third generation of pipe grade PE. It has an optimum balance of three key properties: Minimum Required Strength (MRS) – this provides long-term strength and creep resistance. Stress crack resistance (sometimes referred to as slow crack growth resistance).
What is barrier pipe in plumbing?
What is barrier pipe? Barrier pipe is a reinforced pipe used to protect water supplies against certain types of contaminants in the soil that can degrade standard MDPE pipe and put your water supply at risk.
What diameter is blue water pipe?
MDPE PIPE DIMENSIONS
| Size | Outside Diameter | Inside diameter |
|---|---|---|
| Blue PE80 MDPE 25 mm | 25 mm | 20.4 mm |
| Blue PE80 MDPE 32 mm | 32 mm | 26 mm |
| Blue PE80 MDPE 50 mm | 50 mm | 40.8 mm |
| Blue PE80 MDPE 63 mm | 63 mm | 51.4 mm |
Is Mdpe a barrier pipe?
Barrier Pipe MDPE stands for (Medium Density Polyethylene). This pipe material is suitable for any land which has never been developed (referred to as ‘greenfield’).
Is all GREY pipe polybutylene?
Polybutylene pipes are: not used for waste, drain or vent piping; most commonly grey in color, but they can also be white, silver, black or blue. Blue PB is used primarily outdoors and should only be used to carry cold water.
What does PE 80 mean?
PE 80 materials, as its name suggests, have less density than PE100 polyethylene materials and therefore, PE 80 polyethylene pipes are both heavier and thicker. The polyethylene pipes which are manufactured by PE80 material are used in tiny sizes and for agricultural lands and gardens for the purpose of irrigation.
Which is better PE80 and PE100?
PE100 also has a higher strain hardening modulus than PE80, suggesting that the former is better in the resistance to deformation. In addition, viscous stress and quasi-static stress of PE100 are higher than those of PE80. However, PE80 has a better resistance to relaxation.
What is the difference between PE80 and PE100?
PE100 offers additional long term strength and performance over PE80 while allowing for thinner pipe walls for the same operating pressure. PE100 uses less polymer and provides for a larger bore and increased flow capacity.
What’s the difference between PEX and PB barrier pipe?
The main difference between PB and PEX is in how the material is created. The polymer chains in PEX are bonded to each other; this is called cross-linking and does not happen in PB pipes. So if you will be pumping water, or the pipes will be exposed to the cold, PEX is a better option than PB.
Can you use barrier pipe for drinking water?
Barrier pipe is a reinforced pipe that is used to safely distribute drinking water through contaminated land. Several types of barrier pipe exist today, including ductile iron, plastic-coated copper and multi-layer plastic pipes with a metal layer.
What is Protecta line and what does it do?
Barrier pipe and fittings system for safe transportation of drinking water through contaminated ground. Protecta-Line is the original barrier pipe and fittings system, trusted by water authorities, housebuilders, contractors and installers to safely transport drinking water through contaminated land for more than 20 years.
How is Protecta line pipe and fittings used?
Protecta-line is the original barrier pipe and fitting system – trusted by many housebuilders, contractors and water authorities in the UK – to transport drinking water safely through contaminated land. BS 8588 approved, the barrier pipe has a multi-layer construction that prevents contaminants permeating into the water supply.
When was Protecta line introduced to the UK?
Introduced to the UK market in 1996, Protecta-Line is the market-leading barrier pipe and fittings system, with its tough multi-layer construction ensuring that that any contaminants remaining in brownfield sites and former industrial land cannot permeate into the water supply.
What is the BS 8588 for Protecta line pipe?
All Protecta-Line pipes and fittings are approved to BS 8588. Protecta-Line pipes incorporate an impermeable aluminium barrier layer wrapped onto a central core of PE80 or Excel (PE100) pipe.