Portascanner® WATERTIGHT PRO

Ultrasonic WATERTIGHT PRO Integrity Tester

The Portascanner® WATERTIGHT PRO is a new technology developed by Coltraco Ultrasonics to enable an advanced scientific assessment of the safety of vessels with regard to risk of water ingress.

It is the first instrument of its kind able to easily and non-invasively locate leaks in seals or structures, while also calculating the expected rate of water ingress under any specified pressure condition. The user need only input the maximum expected water pressure (in either bar, psi, metres head, or feet of head) according to regulations or the position of the leak relative to the water line. Once the measurement procedure has been undertaken, the instrument will then automatically calculate the maximum expected flowrate.
Existing methods for water flow measurement are disruptive, costly, and unreliable. Hose testing, for example, may damage cargo and contribute to the degradation of seals, without achieving a precise measurement of the flowrate. Meanwhile, the Portascanner® WATERTIGHT PRO is the only device worldwide capable of quickly, reliably, and non-invasively locating and quantifying leaks and the first to use ultrasound to directly measure leak sizes. It is a hand-held instrument that, with minimal training, can be deployed regularly with crew in situ.

The Portascanner® WATERTIGHT PRO is used as a maintenance instrument for watertight seals, doors, cable transits, and bulkheads. It allows maintenance operators to ensure complete watertightness or to ensure that the flowrate falls below a required maximum level.

The instrument has the following capabilities:

• Locating leak-sites 
• Quantifying leak cross-sectional areas 
• Calculating water flow rates 
• Using metric and imperial measurement systems 
• Photographing leak sites 
• Recording & exporting the location and severity of leaks for reporting purposes 
• Facilitating additional comments such as those formed from visual inspection 

Unique Selling Points

• Capable of non-disruptive identification and quantification of leak sites to help in achieving adequate watertightness, without needing the compartment to be subject to water ingress 
• Provides knowledge of size of leak (cross-sectional area) and water flowrate through it, relating each leak to requirements for compliance to regulatory standards 

• Know where your leaks are and their significance – know if and when a seal requires replacing 
• Improve efficiency and quality of watertight room maintenance – locate leaks, accurately predict the leak site size and its significance, seal the leaks that matter 
• Provide evidence of your maintenance programme – locate, quantify, and record leaks as well as photograph and export a test report all in one hand-held instrument  
• Grants the user the ability to fully assess a compartment or vessel prior to and during transit, meaning risks can be identified as early as possible 

Features

• The ability to switch between ‘quick test’ and ‘full test’ modes, the former for quickly locating leaks and creating a record of their locations, and the latter for quantifying them 
• Different power settings for the generator and gain settings for the receiver to allow accurate testing regardless of the size and shape of the compartment 
• The ability to filter records by date or location in order to export the desired records via USB 
• Portable and easy to use in a 7” hand-held tablet format – can be used in-house by crew or by third party maintenance teams 

• Photographs and records are all easily transferable to other systems via USB

Benefits

• Ability to determine individual water leakage rates through specific walls, doors, seals etc. 
• Ability to determine the exact location of leaks, meaning remedial measures can be taken. This is far more accurate and reliable than procedures such as chalk testing. 
• The process is quick and procedural