Packer Modelling (Inflatable Packers International)

Fowkes, N. (Consultant)

Mathematics and Statistics

Activity: Industry and government engagement/consultancy › Consultancy/collaboration

Description

The aim was to design industrial packers used in the oil industry and elsewhere. These `packers' are (normally large) hand wound (therefore expensive) wire reinforced rubber tubes that are used to isolate out sections of an oil pipeline. Under inflation they expand to double their diameter. They need to have wire strength but rubber expandability and so are difficult to design.

Period	2010
Work for	Inflatable Packers International, Australia
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

packers, oil pipelines