Patent ID: 9400076
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: F16L

Claim Text:
1. A self contained modular electrical autonomous pipeline isolation tool suitable for use in high pressure environments, in offshore and onshore oil and gas or any other fluid pipeline isolation, the electrical autonomous pipeline isolation tool configured as a single unit comprising: a first part and a second part, the first part comprising a pressure vessel housing and the second part comprising an actuator housing, the first and second parts being moveable relative to each other, the pipeline isolation tool being controllable using a communications system; at least one sealing member which is moveable between an unset condition, in which the at least one sealing member is disengaged and the isolation tool is able to travel along inside a pipeline to a predetermined location, and a set condition, in which the sealing member is engaged against an internal wall of the pipeline such that a seal is formed between the sealing member of the isolation tool and the internal wall of the pipeline, wherein the isolation tool being moveable between the unset condition and the set condition under action of the first part and the second part moving relative to each other; a piston rod, wherein the piston rod is electrically actuated to move the isolation tool into the set condition; and a power module contained within the pressure vessel housing of the single unit electrical autonomous pipeline isolation tool, wherein the electrical autonomous pipeline isolation tool does not include any hydraulic systems.