HydroSave and AES awarded place in Yorkshire Water’s new Innovation Marketplace

The integrated water and energy services contractor is named as one of 32 participants in the new innovation marketplace.

Yorkshire Water recently invited 32 partners to join its ‘innovation marketplace’; an opportunity for companies to showcase and supply new approaches for water supply interruptions, leakage and avoiding the need to break ground.

The water company’s objective is to provide innovative solutions to improve regulatory performance, cost efficiency, and deliver a safer and less intrusive experience for customers.

Hydrosave and its “sister company” Advanced Engineering Solutions, (AES), successfully demonstrated several innovations to secure a place on the framework. Amongst the innovations recognised by Yorkshire Water were its HydroV valve release and SmartCat pipeline analysis solutions.

The companies’ internationally patented HydroV valve release technology, which has never failed in releasing a valve, utilises vibration to carefully release stuck valves, removing the need for the usual high torque and high force that often lead to damaged valves. In addition, its SmartCat pipeline analysis tool, provides a rapid non-intrusive assessment of the condition of metallic pipes. The innovative use of magnetic flux leakage (MFL) technology along with proximity, distance and azimuth sensors, allows internal and external defects to be identified and their position located. All while scanning the entire circumference of the pipe.