Transitioning The World’s Pipeline and Storage Infrastructure to Meet the Needs of Future High-Volume Energy Markets.

BrainDrip LLC sprouted as an employee-owned innovation center focused on research, development, implementation, and intellectual property. We pride ourselves on creativity and the opportunity to explore, allowing our team to pool resources, brainstorm, and nurture ideas. Our success in these areas has led to the development of breakthrough products and innovations, primarily in the energy transmission and storage sectors.

Featured Products: ITC-PL

Transmission and Distribution Scale Pipeline using BrainDrip’s Innervated Tubular Composite product.

Founded on multiple innovations in fiber composite reinforced polymers and a compact modular production platform, BrainDrip’s ITC-PL provides a disruptive solution to gas and liquids pipeline transmission and distribution applications. The ITC-PL product provides a solution to long-standing problems in the pipeline industry and is future proofed for changing markets.

ITC-PL's Key Features:

  • Pipeline rehabilitation, renewal, and greenfield installations
  • Wide range of pipe diameters, fluid compatibility, and pressure ratings
  • Continuous health and risk monitoring

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Featured Products: ITC-SV

Large scale energy storage solution using BrainDrip’s Innervated Tubular Composite product.

Utilizing the same materials and manufacturing innovations formulated for ITC-PL but applied to energy storage applications, BrainDrip’s ITC-SV provides a disruptive solution to gas and liquids storage applications. The ITC-SV product provides a solution to the market gap in medium- to large-scale energy storage and is future proofed for changing markets such as the transition of natural gas to gas blends and hydrogen.

ITC-SV's Key Features

  • High cyclability, high capacity, and high usable volume
  • Suitable for day, week, monthly, and seasonal storage applications
  • Natural gas storage starting at 1,200 MCF and hydrogen gas storage starting at 2,000 kg
  • Continuous health and risk monitoring

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Featured Servies

BrainDrip’s expertise in product development, engineering, robotics, and system scale evaluations. Packaged neatly into deployable solutions or customized to meet your needs and requirements. Leverage our services to gain the peace of mind you need to implement your system, monitor a critical asset, or review and evaluate a potential product or material.

HRMS: BrainDrip’s Industry leading Health and Risk Monitoring Solutions (HRMS) for pipeline and storage assets. Providing preventative external threat notification, product health, and performance integrated into your system or ours.

FODT: The robotic Fiber Optic Deployment Tool (FODT), providing a unique fiber optic installation solution on the inner wall of a piping system. Enabling non-invasive fiber optic installation and monitoring in existing assets.

Testing: Expertise and test facilities for full scale permeation of vessels and pipe systems up to 36” in diameter, burst testing and hydraulic pressure cycling, aging of materials, and custom testing services.

Consulting: We provide expertise with a focus on hydrogen systems including technology acceleration, product commercialization, and safety and optimization assessment.

The ITC-PL Pipeline Renewal Process Explained

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Pipeline segment to be rehabilitated with ITC-PL

The pipeline renewal process begins with the identification of ideal segments and access points for installation of ITC-PL, taking into consideration maximum segment pull lengths, the existing host pipe routing, sensitive environmental areas, urban conditions, classification changes, and other design aspects.

On-site manufacturing and pull-through of ITC-PL segment

For a given installation segment, the mobile on-site production unit is deployed on one end, a pull winch on the other end, and access points to the host pipe are locally excavated. ITC-PL is then produced and pulled through the host pipe during production, lining the entire host pipe segment with the product.

Completion of ITC-PL segment pull-through

The ITC-PL segment pull through is completed, and the segment is disconnected from the mobile on-site production unit and the pull winch. A time-delayed curing attenuation gel is added in the annulus between the host pipe and the ITC, providing mechanical isolation of the ITC from the host pipe and elimination of the annulus gas volume. 

Finalization of coupler and HRMS tie-ins

ITC-PL is then connected to adjacent segments through specially designed couplers. The integrated health and risk monitoring system is connected to a field deployed compute and communication system, and the access points are backfilled. The mobile on-site production unit is moved to the next installation segment and the process is repeated until the project is complete.

Technology Overview and Updates

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Fiber Optic Deployment Tool

The FDOT provides a method for the internal embedding of distributed fiber optic sensors in existing pipelines. The FODT enables deployment of BrainDrip's Health and Risk Monitoring System (HRMS) hardware and sensor systems, providing continuous health monitoring of the asset for encroachment, corrosion, temperature, flow, pressure, leaks, at high spatial resolution for event pinpointing. The deployment of BrainDrip's HRMS into existing pipelines using the fiber optic deployment tool provides the asset operator with the information and tools to gain operational confidence over the remaining life of the asset. Contact BrainDrip/IQ4H2 for further information.

Full Scale Pipeline and Pressure Vessel Permeation Testing 

Braindrip has developed the first-of-its-kind pipeline and pressure vessel permeation test apparatus aimed at real-world characterization of full scale samples. The testing capability captures the effects of manufacturing such as thermoplastic fusion joints, non-uniform elements such as variations in reinforcement thickness, vessel geometry, bulk polymer properties, application pressure and temperature, and junctions of vessels with end couplings. The permeation test apparatus is rated for characterization of fuel gas applications including natural gas, gas blends, and has been specifically designed for hydrogen applications and its unique properties. The testing capability is ideally suited for providing accurate measurements of the loss of a gaseous product from a monetary and safety standpoint and determination of emissions rates for products that have regulatory requirements or expected environmental impacts. Contact BrainDrip/IQ4H2 for further information.

BrainDrip and IQ4H2 are active members of the Center for Hydrogen Safety, which is a global nonprofit resource that supports and promotes the safe handling and use of hydrogen across industrial and consumer applications in the energy transition.

Contact Us

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BrainDrip, LLC
IQ4H2 Lab
8182 Baymeadows Way W
Jacksonville, FL 32256
(904) 799-1370
contactus@braindriptech.com

Hours

Monday - Friday

7:30am - 5:30pm

Saturday

Closed

Sunday

Closed

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BrainDrip, LLC
New4H2 Hub
Energy Innovation Center
1435 Bedford Ave
3rd Floor Tower Suite 308
Pittsburg, PA 15219
(412) 775-1370
contactus@braindriptech.com

Hours

Monday - Friday

7:30am - 5:30pm

Saturday

Closed

Sunday

Closed