The Flyability Elios, is the only collision tolerant survey grade drone technology on the market, with a built-in thermal camera and working temperature capabilities of between 0ºC & 50ºC. The Elios is a ideal solution for your confined space inspections
With future surveys and inspection procedures running into hundreds of thousands, inclusive of outage time an ideal solution to this would be remote survey techniques shaving time and improving safety statistics. Up until now this technique within internal spaces has not been possible…
Introducing The Flyability Elios
The Flyability Elios
An incredibly designed crash tolerant survey grade UAV by Swiss company Flyability, its uses around any industry are hugely disruptive and large blue chip companies are beginning to see the benefit utilising remote survey techniques to assist in future-proofing their outputs and providing a reduction in the number of unnecessary injuries and fatalities from falls from height.
There are several situations where the Flyability Elios take president over traditional manned inspection and this blog sheds some light on a few. However, essentially the limit to its capability is only governed by the imagination of the end user. Please call us and we will endeavor to assist you to the best of our engineering capability.
Unmanned Pressure Vessel Inspection
Pressure Vessel(s) are synonymous with regular internal inspections which by law and classification must be thoroughly inspected by a competent person from a technical background. Pressure vessel inspection is a huge task dependent on the size of the pressure vessel and installation, with an obvious requirement for the shutdown of that specific utility and vent to either atmosphere or another pressure vessel in series to the targeted unit undertaking the pressure vessel inspection.
The vessel survey could well run into days inclusive of outage time and bleed down of any medium contained within the unit, extra care required to ensure the pressure remaining internally prior to opening up the pressure vessel to atmospheric pressure is at absolute 0. The volume of these pressure vessels can sometimes contain 0.1bar and still manage to knock a person off their feet or cause significant damage.
Current approaches to evaluating pressure vessel integrity are through Non-Destructive Testing methods such as observing deterioration indicators and visual inspection. Preliminary visual inspection is a fundamental aspect of the process, other NDT methods such as ultrasonic thickness measurement are compliments to an overall assessment. The larger issue at hand is the extensive training and preparation needed for accessing and inspecting these confined areas, specialized permits, the presence of multiple trained personnel, rescue teams and ventilation are a few aspects that add to the costly nature of pressure vessel inspection.
Shell states that “98% of the costs are related to EHS and preparation, only 2% to the inspection itself”, which emphasizes the requirement for a solution that is able to perform the inspection and reduce costs related to preparation and risk.
Ships Ballast Tank Inspection
Another dangerous but classification requirement is a ships ballast tank inspection, these ballast tank inspection (s) are obviously paramount to the safe and effective operation of any seagoing vessel. They offer support whilst performing tasks such as drilling or cable/pipe lay but also essential for allowing balance whilst in transit.
Ballast tank inspection again is an extremely dangerous task to maintain with a high risk of suffocation and death. These tanks operate through the transfer of seawater most of which remain stagnant for long periods of time. Which can and often does cause build up of toxic gasses such as H2S due to the breakdown of organic matter such as plankton and other microscopic sealife.
Although massive precautions are taken during ballast tank inspections such as the correct training and donning of essential gas and low oxygen monitors + breathing apparatus etc occasionally pockets of high PPM H2S are left in areas and cannot be displaced due to lack of turbulent airflow or possible inaccessible areas. Ballast tank inspection talking from experience can be a frightening prospect.
The Flyability Elios can perform the ballast tank inspection by entering through access hatches in the deck and inspect the general condition of corrosion hindering anodes and general ballast tank integrity resulting in a targeted approach to maintenance requirements if needed. Less downtime, cost-effective, safer solution to essential preventive maintenance.
Nuclear Power Station Remote Inspection,
Nuclear power stations are clearly a very sensitive environment with the requirement for regular maintenance within zones containing high levels of radiation such as the reactor spaces critical to the proper function of the nuclear power station. Generally speaking manned inspection within the nuclear reactor space can be dangerous with a possible exposure of up to 10% of the recommended annual dose of radiation per entry or up to 250 millirems (2’500 µSv) of radiation. Obviously, with the Elios this can be avoided.
As we know exposure to dangerous levels of radiation on a regular basis can result in catastrophic consequences and disease such as radiation sickness which can kill within days or prolonged effects such as Cancer. Avoiding exposure to high levels of radiation is critical and shouldn’t be taken likely.
Maintenance around Nuclear power stations are tantamount to their output and function and the operators must have their employee’s personal safety as their main concern. The Flyability Elios can enter high-risk areas to carry out remote visual inspections of these spaces with levels of high radiation preventing exposure, radiation sickness and prolonged diseases to the employee and also providing a cost-effective and faster inspection method. The Elios can carry out the inspection work whilst the nuclear power station is running at full capacity.
Nuclear Power Station Remote Inspection,
Nuclear power stations are clearly a very sensitive environment with the requirement for regular maintenance within zones containing high levels of radiation such as the reactor spaces critical to the proper function of the nuclear power station. Generally speaking manned inspection within the nuclear reactor space can be dangerous with a possible exposure of up to 10% of the recommended annual dose of radiation per entry or up to 250 millirems (2’500 µSv) of radiation. Obviously, with the Elios this can be avoided.
As we know exposure to dangerous levels of radiation on a regular basis can result in catastrophic consequences and disease such as radiation sickness which can kill within days or prolonged effects such as Cancer. Avoiding exposure to high levels of radiation is critical and shouldn’t be taken likely.
Maintenance around Nuclear power stations are tantamount to their output and function and the operators must have their employee’s personal safety as their main concern. The Flyability Elios can enter high-risk areas to carry out remote visual inspections of these spaces with levels of high radiation preventing exposure, radiation sickness and prolonged diseases to the employee and also providing a cost-effective and faster inspection method. The Elios can carry out the inspection work whilst the nuclear power station is running at full capacity.
Confined Space Survey
If you would like to speak to us about any Confined space survey, drone services or thermal services or to arrange any standard or thermal aerial projects then please either get in touch via this link to our contact page or Call us on +44 (0) 1642 903779 We’d be more than happy to speak to you and go through the process.