Nikitas wrote:Suction pads? On land and not under water? The translation is not helping here. What suction pads? These were not mentioned in the animations of the system, it was all supposed to be gravity fed. The major deal was the pvc pipe technology, the floats and the anchoring lines and those super dooper connectors. Now suddenly we hear about suction pads. Suction implies an operation at the receiving end to suck air out of a 80 km long pipe!
They will need 1700 suction pads, but how do they place them in a pipe that is now anchored 250 meters underwater? It is beyond diver and normal submarine depth.
These valves are well known technology and it is unimaginable to have a water supply system without them. In Cyprus they use the term "de-aerator" valves, so I guess we are lost in translation from Turkish here.
Anyway, this technology is only available for water pipes on land. Nothing has been invented for under the sea pipelines, and I can't even guess what kind of method could be successful at a depth of 280m. If the Turks did not use any such devices under the sea then the pipe will deliver less and less water over time until it stops completely. The only solution to get some flow rate would then be to double and triple the pressure of the pumps until the pipes explode.