Protect and Enhance the Environment
The AVK PE tailed gate valve, for water and wastewater, is everything you've come to expect from AVK, and much more when it comes to protecting the environmental.
With less waste to landfill and with no potential leak paths, AVK's Series 36 PE tailed gate valves are designed to significantly reduce environmental impact during installation when compared with the equivalent flanged gate valves.
Take a look at the environmental benefits listed below.
Less Environmental Damage from Leakage
When compared to an equivalent flanged gate valve installation, AVK's factory fitted and sealed PE-tailed pipes present no potential leak paths.
Using best practice installation methods, the AVK Series 36 will create a fully welded and resilient pipeline that will significantly reduce the risk of water leakage and any damage that can be caused to the surrounding environment.
Flanged gate valves can present two potential leak paths because of the two bolted mechanical joints. The AVK PE-tailed gate valve presents no potential leak paths because it doesn't require bolted mechanical joints and the PE tailed pipes are fully welded into the network using electrofusion couplers.
Installs faster with less environmental disruption
As demonstrated in timed trials, the AVK PE-Tailed Gate Valve is faster to install than an equivalent flanged gate valve. Additionally, this AVK gate valve has a smaller profile and can be installed in a narrower trench which causes less environmental damage.
A gate valve that provides faster network installations and causes less environmental damage and disruption will help to support the UK Water Industry to better protect and enhance the environment.
This AVK gate valve can be installed in a 300mm wide trench. In the timed trial, held at McCrae Training, a 500mm wide training trench was used.
Download our Trial Installation Report for further information.
71% less landfill waste
Moving waste to landfill costs money and is in direct opposition to the water industry’s drive towards a more sustainable future.
When installing a flanged gate valve up to seven plastic bags can be used and will go to landfill. That's right - SEVEN. AVK PE-Tailed Gate Valves have protective pipe caps at the end of the pipe that can be recycled. When electrofusing the valves to pipe the only wasted plastic packaging is the two bags protecting the electrofusion couplers, which compared to a flanged valve installation, results in a 71% reduction in landfill waste.
A gate valve and network installation solution that can reduce waste to landfill by over 70% goes toward Ofwat's request to water companies to protect and enhance the environment and delivers a positive and sustainable contribution to achieve this.
AVK Smart Water helps protect the environment
The use of Smart, remote valve monitoring devices, remove the need to carry out costly and time-consuming physical checks which frees operations team to focus on more important tasks. Another bonus is the reduction in fuel consumption, vehicle wear-and-tear and emissions.
Operations team are alerted to potential pipe failures when AVK 's Smart remote valve monitoring devices automatically trigger alarms, avoiding any damage that leakage can inflict on the environment.
