Marine

Sunrise provides specialist marine installation services to suit marine environments, supported by extensive in-house design and fabrication capabilities. Sunrise can provide GRE installation services to a wide range of systems including:

Ballast Water Treatment
Inert Gas Effluent
Sea Water Cooling
Potable Water
Fire Fighting
Scrubber Units
Condensate Lines
Crude Oil Washing

Sunrise supply and install NOV GRE pipe systems to the shipboard industry. Sunrise supply and fabricate GRE piping spools to the Royal Australia Navy.

Fiber Glass installation

Sunrise Pty Ltd is specialized in Composite Piping Systems (Fibreglass) GRE, GRP & GRVE. We are the Leading Supplier and Installer of Composite and Mechanical Piping to the Mining, Oil & Gas and Construction Sector Providing Quality Piping Systems across Australia and around the globe. We provide fabrication and installation of fiberglass piping systems to help companies deal with the environmental issues created by the corrosion of steel pipe.

Engineering Services overview

For over 40 years Sunrise & NOV have been the industry leader in engineering, expert technical services & design consultancy of GRE piping systems, FRP composite structures & thermoplastic drainage & civils, providing high-performance products with reduced weight & corrosion resistance.

Our expert engineering team provides first-class solutions, uniting Advanced Design & Advanced
Caesar II Piping stress analysis
Composite pressure vessel design
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Piping design, assistance & verification

Structural design solutions

Piping design, assistance & verification

General arrangements
Developing pipe specifications
Pipe routing & coordination
Isometrics –fabrication & installation
Verification of customer designs
Spool details
Support design

Composite pressure vessel design

Corrosion of metallic piping is a well-known problem on board seagoing vessels, frigates, carriers and submarine systems. Corrosion always occurs when the piping is part of seawater systems and also in systems using acids such as for cleaning like evaporators, chemicals and other corrosive fluids.

Traditionally, corroded piping is replaced from time to time by new pipes made of the same material. This means the defect is repaired, but the problem is not solved. Future replacement of the same pipe is only a matter of time.

Leaking seawater lines are a nuisance aboard ships, especially in the engine room. Seawater spraying or dripping from leaking pipes may also result in collateral damage to surrounding equipment and instruments.

For many shipowners and operators, the exchange of piping is regarded as part of the daily routine. The time it takes to have corrosion problems can be more or less predicted based on experience and is often accepted as a fact of life. No questions are asked and systems are being repaired and replaced frequently. But the corrosion does not have to be a problem.

We offer the solution to your corrosion problems aboard ships and offshore units. Bondstrand™ Glass fiber Reinforced Epoxy (GRE) pipe systems have a number of significant advantages when compared to steel or other metallic piping.

Bondstrand pipe systems are extremely resistant to corrosion from salt water and to a wide range of chemicals. Additionally, there is almost no scaling and low pressure loss. Bondstrand Glassfiber (GRE) pipe systems are easy to install, lightweight and can be designed to operate at temperatures up to 121°C.

We provide specialist marine installation services to suit marine environments, supported by extensive in-house design and fabrication capabilities. Wenco can provide GRE installation services to a wide range of systems including:

Ballast Water Treatment
Sea Water Cooling
Fire Fighting
Condensate Lines
Inert Gas Effluent
Potable Water
Scrubber Units
Crude Oil Washing

Low weight and/or extended life corrosion resistance, we provide bespoke cost-effective design & build piping & structural composite solutions for marine, naval, offshore & subsea applications.

Class Approved

Major certifying bodies such as Lloyd’s Register, Bureau Veritas, Det Norske Veritas GL, American Bureau of Shipping, RINA, RMRS, etc. have adopted and implemented the IMO Guidelines in their respective Rules and Regulations for the Classification of Ships. Bondstrand pipe series that are used in the marine/offshore industry are Type Approved by all major certifying bodies.

Bondstrand piping systems include easy to install standard filament wound fittings. When standard fittings can not be used, laminated fittings and spools can be tailor-made to fit almost any system. Replacement can take place at sea during the voyage, at anchorage, during regular loading and discharge operations or during dry dock periods.

Scrubber Installations

The maritime industry is facing tough new challenges of adopting new technologies and operational practices to comply with international, national and local regulations, introduced in order to reduce exhaust emissions from ships. As of January 2015, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) legislation stated that all ships operating inside of designated emission control areas are to use fuel with a low sulfur content, or to employ technology to reduce sulfur oxide (SOx) emissions.

One technology option is to install an exhaust gas cleaning (EGC) after-treatment system, also known as scrubbers. The exhaust gas scrubber system cleans the exhaust gas to reduce SOx emissions to the appropriate legal limit.

This method ensures that the vessels’ exhaust gas emissions are sufficiently cleaned to within the new legal limit of SOx emissions (which is now just 0.10%) prior to release into the atmosphere.

The highly corrosive nature of waste material produced during the scrubbing process leaves only two viable options for essential associated pipework – difficult to source and expensive special grade stainless steel or Glass Reinforced Epoxy (GRE).

Bondstrand GRE piping systems are the solution. Our cost effective, lightweight and corrosion resistant Bondstrand GRE piping systems are suitable for both the acidic waste water produced through the exhaust gas scrubbing process, as well as the seawater supply to the scrubber.

Water Ballast System

Corrosion Resistant

The product is itself corrosion resistant since this is made up of inert components that do not corrode in the harsh marine environment. There is no reaction between the piping systems and the environment, and there is therefore no galvanic corrosion, stress corrosion or other forms of corrosion. The alternative material commonly used on ships is carbon steel. Just imagine for a moment that this is now time for maintenance of this carbon steel water ballast system.

Maintenance of a carbon steel water ballast system

The maintenance of a corroded carbon steel water ballast system is an elaborate process. This involves carrying out inspection of the system, requiring tanks to be gas free and made safe for entry, identifying where the corroded sections of the piping are, finding a suitable time and suitable dry docking facilities, planning for the cutting out of the corroded sections and removal of pipe sections. The pipe sections can only be removed by cutting the outer or the inner bottoms in way of the tanks. After new sections of carbon steel pipes are inserted into the tanks, the tank top or tank bottom needs to be welded back in place and the welding seams inspected by the certifying classification society. This whole exercise itself is both expensive and time consuming.

Bondstrand Fiberglass Water Ballast System

Bondstrand fiberglass pipes and fittings can be used throughout this system starting from the sea chests valves through to the inlet of the pumps located in the machinery spaces or pump rooms, outlet from the pumps through the bulkheads and into the suction/discharge bell mouths. In short, the sea water filters, bulkhead penetration pieces, expansion couplings, suction bell mouths, pipes and fittings are all in Bondstrand materials engineered for the application. NOV Fiber Glass Systems supplies this system in ready-to-install pipe spool pieces with defined locations for specific support types. We deliver a system. We do not just deliver pipes and fittings. An engineered Bondstrand fiberglass Water Ballast System properly installed will not require maintenance.

Navy Vessel GRE application

NOV Fiberglass Systems glass reinforced epoxy piping is chosen for all commercial vessels including specialized defense vessels, aircraft carriers, frigates etc., The latest series of large carriers are all fitted with Bondstrand™ Series 2000M piping.

Lightweight

Over 900 meters of pipes of sizes from 1.5” to 20” are installed on these 18,000 TEUs vessels. The Triple E Vessels: Economies of Scale, Energy Efficient and Environmental Efficient, benefit from weight savings of over 54 tons (vs Schedule 40 Carbon Steel Pipe), the light weight translates into fuel economy advantage or higher load capacity.

Low Friction Factors

Users of piping product have long known that fiberglass piping has far lower friction factors than carbon steel piping. It is equally important to recognize the energy cost savings which accrue over the life of the installed system as a result of the lower friction factors. The largest savings is found simply in lower pumping costs where the power consumption can often be cut in half. This efficient pumping is maintained consistently throughout the life of the vessel, due to the smooth interior of the piping not fouling up.

Maintenance Free

A properly installed Bondstrand™ is a one-time installation which can last the life of a vessel needing little or no maintenance.