Plastic Floats

 1.    Introduction of Floator

      The hull of MDPE Floator is made from medium density polyethylene material with excellent flexibility, filled with high strength polyurethane foam inside. With reasonable structure and good performance, the MDPE floater becomes the ideal substitution of the traditional steel floater for the floating dredging pipes.

 

2. Application of Floater

1). These floating bodies are floaters of uhmwpe dredging pipelines on the water.
2). Mainly used in offshore dredging, sand pumping vessel and oil gas transportation, etc.
3). MDPE floater is a high tech substitute of traditional steel floater.

4) .MDPE floaters float UHMWPE dredging pipe.

3. Characteristics of Floater

1).Good flexibility.
Excellent impact resistance, particularly suitable for constructions in open sea.
2).
 Light weight.
Easy to install and handle, lower costs for moving.
3).
 Higher corrosive resistance.
Longer working life, 3 times longer than steel floaters.
4).
 Lower costs.
The cost performance is better than steel floaters.
5) .Good Toughness, divulsion resistance, shock resistance
wear-resistance,
Resistance to the wind and waves or strike from ships, can adapt to bad weather
 
6.Good property of self lubricity and small frictional factor.
 
Self-lubrication better than steel, brass with oil.It can’t form dirt in the medium with PH value of 9 or more, because of non-cohesive and non-scaling surface.

4. Floater Specification:

Specification of Floater for Dredging Pipe

Floater

ID(mm)

Floater

OD(mm)

Floater

Length(mm)

Floater

Thickness(mm)

Net Buoyancy(kg)

Weight(kg)

220

500

800

7

200

16

300

700

1200

7

420

43

375

1100

1100

7

920

72

414

1100

1200

8

1020

76

430

1200

1200

8

1200

93

480

1300

1300

8

1500

116

580

1400

1500

9

2219

170

630

1400

1700

11

2400

182

680

1480

1800

11.5

2930

210

730

1600

1900

12

3593

230

780

1600

2000

13

3800

245

830

1800

2000

14

4800

310

  The above data are just for reference and also can be customized.

 

5. Application of use:

1). 2 halves of floaters form 1 set, 2 sets of floaters form 1 pair. Halves connected by galvanized bolts, nuts and washers.
2). 1 pair of floaters could float 6 meter long steel dredging pipe and 1.5m long rubber hose.
    11.8m uhmwpe dredging pipe need 3 pairs.
3). The floaters under the size of O.D4m*L4m are all available.

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