Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Penstock inspections are difficult, dangerous, and time-consuming - but the Elios 3 drone is transforming the game. Designed for confined spaces, its collision-resilient frame allows it to navigate deep inside penstocks without the need for human entry, scaffolding, or extensive shutdowns. #PenstockInspection #Drone
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Equipped with a high-resolution camera and LiDAR technology, the Elios 3 drone captures detailed visual and structural data, identifying cracks, corrosion, and other defects in real time. By making inspections safer, faster, and more efficient, the Elios 3 helps hydropower operators ensure the reliability of their infrastructure while reducing risks and costs.
And for our steel penstock operators? This collision-resilient drone enables safe, efficient, and precise ultrasonic thickness (UT) measurements inside penstocks without the need for scaffolding, rope access, or draining. With high-precision UT technology, it detects corrosion, wall thinning, and structural defects in real time, helping hydropower operators ensure reliability and compliance while minimizing downtime. Watch how the Elios 3 UT is revolutionizing penstock inspectionsβmaking them safer, faster, and more cost-effective than ever before!
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Revolutionize your hydropower plant with penstock inspection drones and conduct safer #NDT inspections. Inspect a #penstock, #hydropowerplant, #surgetank, and more without the need to physically enter a confined space. Make your power plant a safer workplace by using power generation drones like the Elios 3.
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Penstock inspections are difficult, dangerous, and time-consuming - but the Elios 3 drone is transforming the game. Designed for confined spaces, its collision-resilient frame allows it to navigate deep inside penstocks without the need for human entry, scaffolding, or extensive shutdowns. #PenstockInspection #Drone
Find out more about penstock inspections π bit.ly/3QXrx5B
Equipped with a high-resolution camera and LiDAR technology, the Elios 3 drone captures detailed visual and structural data, identifying cracks, corrosion, and other defects in real time. By making inspections safer, faster, and more efficient, the Elios 3 helps hydropower operators ensure the reliability of their infrastructure while reducing risks and costs.
And for our steel penstock operators? This collision-resilient drone enables safe, efficient, and precise ultrasonic thickness (UT) measurements inside penstocks without the need for scaffolding, rope access, or draining. With high-precision UT technology, it detects corrosion, wall thinning, and structural defects in real time, helping hydropower operators ensure reliability and compliance while minimizing downtime. Watch how the Elios 3 UT is revolutionizing penstock inspectionsβmaking them safer, faster, and more cost-effective than ever before!
Get in touch with us at Flyability π bit.ly/4d2dJ3a
Meet us at tradeshows and events π bit.ly/3W29ApB
Learn more on drone inspections in power plants π bit.ly/3KetTcy
Revolutionize your hydropower plant with penstock inspection drones and conduct safer #NDT inspections. Inspect a #penstock, #hydropowerplant, #surgetank, and more without the need to physically enter a confined space. Make your power plant a safer workplace by using power generation drones like the Elios 3.
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![Inspecting Pipe Racks with Drones π
One of the main drone inspections that are conducted at refineries with the Elios 3 UT is pipe and pipe rack inspections. Andre and his team now use the Elios 3 once or twice a week to inspect the pipe racks at their refinery in Louisiana. #PipeInspection #PipeRackInspection #RefineryInspection
Pipe racks can be very congested, making it hard to access with standard outdoor drones or man lifts, so Andres is now using the Elios 3 UT to reach spots you wouldnt normally be able to see from the ground or with bigger drones from above. [The Elios 3] allows you to get into those hard-to-get-to spaces. A lot of the time its just a couple of feet between the tiers of a pipe rack, and we are able to get the Elios 3 in there to inspect the underside and the top of each tier of the pipe rack, says Andre.
Find out more about drone pipe rack inspection: https://www.flyability.com/oil-and-gas-drones
Andre then goes on to say that pipe rack inspections with drones are a lot faster compared to using traditional means like scaffolding or rope access. Depending on the length of the pipe rack, it may take us 10 minutes for about 50 feet (15 metres), and we can safely carry out the inspection from the ground.
Read the case studies on NDT drones: https://www.flyability.com/resources?tags=Oil+%26amp%3B+Gas
Revolutionize your pipe rack inspections with drones. Elios 3 is a UT inspection drone made for confined space inspections and NDT inspections in petrochemical plants. It can be used as an oil and gas inspection drone for tank inspections, pipe inspections, pressure vessel inspections, and more, or as an emergency response drone.
#OilAndGasDrone #OilAndGasInspections #OilAndGasInspectionDrone #RefineryInspection #PipeInspection #PiperackInspection #TankInspection #OilAndGasDrone #DronesInOilAndGas #PetrochemicalDrone #Petrochemicals #NDTDrone #UTDrone #Flyability #Elios3 Inspecting Pipe Racks with Drones π](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gyUoz-cbni8/mqdefault.jpg)