PipeLine. 7 Times in Europe - Air Cushion Siphon of h Pipes Rehabilitates Sewage System, DE. November 2011

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1 November 2011 PipeLine Contents 1 7 Times in Europe, DE 5 Sought, Evaluated & Found: The Best Solution for Basel-Stadt, CH 7 Times in Europe - Air Cushion Siphon of h Pipes Rehabilitates Sewage System, DE The sewers of Pforzheim in Germany are for some part over 100 years old. It comes as no surprise that these no longer suit today s requirements and urgently need to be rehabilitated. The majority of newly installed pipes has been jacked: A rather infrequent and demanding project was in this case the installation of an air cushion inverted siphon beneath two rivers. When Pforzheim s sewer system was built more than 100 years ago, this was done for the at the time small number of inhabitants and equally small amount of wastewater. Today, over 9,000 liters of sewage from the city and its surrounding areas are lead through the city center per second. Depending on weather conditions the combined sewers, which transport rain as well as sewage, need to cope with varying amounts of water. When there is little rain the low flow rate in the line may lead to siltation and deposits. If these are not removed they can cause congestions which during heavy rainfall may cause floods and along with these high costs. Improving the sewage disposal s safety was a further point on the rehabilitation plan: less pollutants and contaminants should reach the rivers Nagold and Enz to sustainably improve the water quality and for environmental protection. The municipal organization responsible for waste water and surface collection and treatment Stadtentwässerung Pforzheim commissioned Hyder Consulting GmbH to draw up a master plan for the renewal of the sewage system. In order to implement the objectives with as little as possible disturbance to the city center, Hydro Consulting designed an air cushion inverted siphon as central element to be jacked beneath the rivers Enz and Nagold. The 26 million euros project was split into several construction phases which were implemented by the contractor Sonntag Baugesellschaft mbh & Co. KG. Air Cushion Siphon Realized only 7 Times in Europe The new sewer pipeline through the city center had to be led beneath the rivers Enz and Nagold. An air cushion inverted siphon was designed here to regulate and keep the flow rate of the sewage at a point which would not allow for pollutants and sand to settle in the pipes. Deposits and siltation are this way avoided and maintenance costs minimized. The inverted siphon is a horizontal pipe with a vertical pipe ending in a siphon (bend) on each end. Air that is pumped into the horizontally arranged pipe cannot escape and reduces the cross section. Smaller amounts of water flowing into the inverted siphon result in a larger air cushion which reduces E Engineering GmbH Pischeldorfer Str Klagenfurt Austria T F info@hobas.com

2 h PipeLine November 2011 Page 02 the cross section and increases the flow rate. Larger amounts of water reduce the amount of trapped air and increase the cross section. Inverted siphons of this kind are usually installed by jacking. Starting from the thrust pit, the boring machine works its way under the watercourse through to the reception pit. Pipes are one after the other pushed in behind the machine to establish the finished siphon. In choosing the route to run beneath the Enz and Nagold traffic impairments in the city center could be avoided. The challenging undertaking to lead the combined sewer beneath an obstruction by trenchless technology has been realized for the seventh time in Europe. The master plan for rehabilitation comprises apart from the DN 2200 air cushion inverted siphon also several inlet sewers as well as storage sewers DN 1600 and DN 1400 that store and throttle combined sewage before it reaches the overflow basin for rainwater treatment. Highest Demands on the Pipe Material Various materials have been analyzed, compared and evaluated in regard to technical and economic criteria before the pipes for the inverted siphon have been chosen: HOBAS was here the winner and scored in particular by providing a system solution consisting of jacking pipes, shafts and by offering technical and economic benefits. The relatively small diameters and smooth outer pipe surface resulted in a reduced amount of excavation material and fewer intermediate jacking stations. The installation costs were this way lowered considerably. Also the air- and gas-tightness of HOBAS GRP Pipes was an essential criterion for implementing the air cushion siphon. It is understandable that the investor did not want to take any risks with porous materials. Multiple Phase Project Construction works for the first construction stage began at the end of 2010 with the installation of a storage sewer. De 1720, PN 1 HOBAS Jacking Pipes have been utilized for this. The site was searched for warfare material from World War II before the works could begin and some fire bombs were recovered and taken care of by the Explosive Ordnance Disposal. Beginning of 2011, pilings were inserted with the help of a 60 ton boring machine. The 365 m-long storage sewer was then jacked in 7 meters depth. For this purpose contractor Sonntag Baugesellschaft chose a fully automated tunnel boring machine with slurry shield and hydraulic conveyance system. The AVN-boring machine with 1720 mm outside diameter was equipped with a mixed-soil cutterhead and a downstream crushing device. After the jacking job a further storage sewer consisting of 130 m HOBAS Pipes De 1638, PN 1 was installed in open trench. In May 2011 the second tunneling machine with 2.4 m outside diameter weighing 36 tons was delivered for the installation of the actual air cushion inverted siphon under the rivers. The pipes were jacked in 15 meters depth and on a 483 m-long drive. The boring crown equipped with a rock

3 h PipeLine November 2011 Page 03 cutterhead had to break through the sandstone of the Enz and Nagold. Due to the abrasiveness of the sandstone the worn cutter equipment had to be changed every 130 m. HOBAS CC-GRP Jacking Pipes De 2400, PN 2 have been utilized here and 4 intermediate stations were installed of which only 3 were put into operation. The job was finalized in August 2011 when the tunneling machine reached the receiving pit that had been installed in the area of the city church parallel to the thrust pit. In order to establish a kind of siphon inlet (bend) for the Enz siphon the receiving pit was deepened another 3.5 m. This was necessary to generate the air cushion later on when the inverted siphon goes into operation. A static monitoring system CoJack from the company S & P Consult GmbH had been installed in order to keep an eye on and records of the forces on the jacking pipes. The sensor system measured the gaps between the joints and the deflection of the two pipes behind the machine, the forces and extensions of the intermediate stations and the forces at the main jacking machine. The data was then transmitted via internet to a server, edited and compared with the allowable values. This allowed the site management, the contractor and the constructor to monitor the jacking procedure online from their own computers. The monitoring system provided clear and consistent proof that the pipes were at no point in time overloaded. The Enz-siphon is up to now the largest construction project implemented by Stadtentwässerung Pforzheim. It attracted a lot of attention, nationwide as well as abroad: Professionals came to Pforzheim to watch the pipes being jacked and to exchange their knowledge and experience. The client is happy with the implementation of the project and will also in future opt for HOBAS. Fmd: hobas.germany@hobas.com Year of construction Scope of products 1,120 m pipe Diameter DN 1400, 1600, 2200 Pressure class PN 1, 2 Stiffness class SN 10000, 40000, Application Air cushion invert siphon, storage sewer Installation Jacking, open trench Client Stadtentwässerung Pforzheim Designer Hyder Consulting GmbH, Karlsruhe Contractor Sonntag Baugesellschaft mbh & Co. KG, Bingen Benefits Pipes and shafts from one source, smooth outside pipe surface, small wall thickness, online monitoring via CoJack

4 h PipeLine November 2011 Page 04 Sought, Evaluated & Found: The Best Solution for Basel-Stadt h NC Line System for a Relief Sewer in Switzerland After 70 years of service the approximately 1-km-long deteriorated concrete relief sewer Leimgrubenweg/Walkeweg in the Swiss canton Basel-Stadt Switzerland could be no longer maintained with spot repairs. Extensive preliminary investigations and an in-depth evaluation of possible solutions commissioned by the Municipal Works Service Department for Municipal Sewage of the canton Basel-Stadt in Switzerland led to a sliplined HOBAS NC Line solution that ensures trouble-free service for a minimum of 50 years. The egg-profile concrete line (1420/1970 mm and 1500/2050 mm) with dry weather channel and lateral walkway had been built in 1936 to As the inspections by Amberg Engineering AG in December 2009 showed, various mends and flexin-injections had already been conducted in the early 1980s. However, infiltration and leaks have been detected along the line and circulating water will further weaken the concrete structure. Since the porous and heterogeneous sewer runs fully below ground water level, defects are expected to spread also to currently unaffected parts in some parts the line remains tight thanks to the mortar coating and putty only which suggested the end of the channel s lifetime. Due to the remaining load-bearing capacity of the old structure, the varying geologic conditions and generally higher installation costs ruled out a new structure installed by microtunneling. Also hose relining could not be taken into consideration as the large diameter of the line together with the manhole spacings would have resulted in too heavy hose weights, which would have been impracticable regarding the restricted space on site. The three best remaining options were therefore: re-profiling mortar, GRP lining and an inside shell of self-compacting concrete (SCC). An in-depth evaluation of costs and benefits was conducted considering: the costs, fitness for purpose/structural safety, hydraulics/capacity, temporary drainage, impacts/measures regarding installation and traffic, maintenance and installation time. In respect of the surrounding conditions the costs and benefits have been weighed and the costs have been calculated on an annual basis since each of the three alternatives has a different product lifetime. Technically as well as economically the evaluation speaks clearly in favor of HOBAS NC Line Systems. Structural Safety and Fitness for Purpose A major advantage of the HOBAS GRP NC Line solution is the products high stability and sturdiness at relatively small wall thicknesses. Despite the presently sufficient load-bearing reserves of the existing structure, the NC Line Profiles have been designed self-supporting with 24 mm thick walls. As only solution that reinforces the old structure also in future when Year of construction Envisaged installation time 4-5 months depending on rainfall Scope of products 1 km NC Line, 0.5, 1 und 2-m-long sections, prefabricated with dry weather channel and walkway Diameter approx. 1300x1870 mm; self-supporting; wall thickness: 24 mm Pressure class PN 1 Installation Relining Application SewerLine Client Tiefbauamt Stadtentwässerung Basel-Stadt Contractor Insituform Rohrsanierungstechniken GmbH Leonberg Stuttgart Benefits Highest structural safety, long product life, low maintenance costs, fast installation for less impacts

5 h PipeLine November 2011 Page 05 it should further disintegrate, the GRP line aced out its alternatives in terms of structural safety. The tightness of the system is furthermore provided without greater additional investments in the future and for a service life of at least 50 years. Hydraulics and Capacity A reduction in cross-section is inevitable for all three relining methods. The significantly lower roughness coefficient of the inner pipe layer and relatively thin wall thickness of the HOBAS NC Line Profiles, however, provide the greatest discharge capacity compared to the alternatives. The prefabricated 1300x1870 mm NC profiles are designed to match the original channel s form and comprise a dry weather channel as well as a lateral walkway with a safety tread for inspections. Temporary Drainage, Installation and Environment Three access shafts were prepared to slipline the HOBAS NC Line Profiles which are delivered in 0.5, 1 and 2 m-lengths to optimally adapt to the pipeline route and for easy installation. The easy handling of the profiles is particularly important regarding the restricted accessibility to the channel and depth (15 to 18 m) of the route. Just-in-time deliveries and a fast installation reduce impacts on the environment, traffic impairments and disturbance of the inhabitants. Despite the necessary drainage of the old structure during construction works and preparation of shafts, the estimated installation period for sliplining HOBAS NC Line Systems is the shortest of all compared solutions. Maintenance Costs Thanks to the products longevity of a minimum of 50 years and minimal cleaning efforts due to the smooth finish of the internal pipe walls HOBAS GRP clearly scored in respect to low maintenance costs. Moreover and unlike other proposed materials costs will not rise with the line s service life. Fmd: hobas.switzerland@hobas.com