The ease of assembly, toughness and weather resistance of Epco's Comer ABS pipe systems helped Epco win the pipe and fittings supplier contract for a £50,000 series of industrial valve manifolds.
The corrosion resistant Comer ABS pipe system was specified for three separate manifold applications by a specialist water treatment contractor. Each project was constructed using solvent welded joints, in 4-inch and 6-inch sizes.
The first project involved valve manifolds for multi-media filter vessels. The manifolds will ultimately be used for the automatic cleaning of four 3-metre diameter filters, containing sand and anthracite, with flow rates up to 150m3/h. The filters are required for pre-treatment for a reverse osmosis plant for an oil refinery.
The second manifold system was built for a large water softener. The system controls the automatic regeneration of 2.4m-diameter vessels containing softener resin, with flow rates up to 120 m3/h. The softeners are used for wash water at a glass manufacturing site.
A third valve manifold system is attached to carbon filters, in an effluent plant treating contaminated water from a railway maintenance yard. The manifolds will automatically clean two 2.2m-diameter vessels containing activated carbon, with flow rates up to 45 m3/h.
Comer ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) has a number of outstanding properties that make it ideal in these applications. These include high impact strength and ductility, good chemical, abrasion and UV light resistance, non-toxic and non-taint properties and high strain resistance for buried applications. Additionally, high strength solvent weld jointing allows efficient system assembly and modification.
The > Comer range comprises ball valves, non-return, air release and foot valves. These complement the full > Epco range in > ABS, which includes diaphragm and butterfly valves in addition to pipe and fittings. The fittings are available in both metric and imperial sizes.
With accreditation to BS EN ISO 9001:2000 and IIP, > Epco Industrial Plastics have extensive experience in supplying the water and wastewater industry, and many others, as a fully independent distributor of > ABS and > PVC. Sizes from ½ ” to 8 ” imperial and 20 mm to 400 mm metric are supplied from stock. > Epco can also design and manufacture sub-assemblies to order.
Established in the 1970s, > Comer built its reputation as an injection mouldings toolmaker before moving into injection moulding of fittings and valves. Now Italy’s second largest producer of > ABS, > PVC, PE and PP pressure fittings, > Comer will soon open a brand new plant to expand its manufacturing facilities. > Comer has ISO 9002 accreditation and has several European quality accrediations for its products including WRAS in the UK.
