HydroPen is a new innovative and ground-breaking technology to fight container fires onboard containerships. HydroPen is basically a water based drilling machine. It only uses water pressure to drill through a standard steel container door. The ground-breaking feature about the HydroPen is that it operate fully automatically and it is able to reach containers in the height with direct firefighting. Something which is not possible today!
How does it work?
- Hoist the telescopic lift to the burning container.
- Attach the telescopic lift to the container by locking the purpose made hook at the end of the lift to the locking bar on the container.
- Hoist the HydroPen to the end of the telescopic lift by using the internal wire inside the lift and a manual hand winch.
- Once the HydroPen is located at the top of the lift the fully automatic water-based drilling process can begin.
- It only uses the force of the supplied water pressure from any standard firehose or fire line to drill through the container.
- The water pressure flows into a hydrodynamic turbine, which creates a rotation.
- The rotation of the turbine in combination with the internal technology to control the tension will start the drilling process.
- At the end of the HydroPen there is a cob-drill and nozzle, which will extract into the container once the drilling process is finished.
- When the cob-drill and nozzle go through the container it will automatically change function and shut off the water supply to the turbine and instead guide the water through the nozzle and create immediate firefighting inside the burning container.
Video – How HydroPen works
Video – Real life test