The Asbestos Products Database is Australia’s first comprehensive online database to assist homeowners, renovators, tradespeople and some industries to identify asbestos-containing materials so they can be managed safely. The database provides multiple search options for products commonly used in residential and commercial properties, in agriculture, automotive, industrial, plant and marine products and features over 60 different product types and more than 550 product photographs with descriptions and locations where these products might be found in homes built or renovated prior to 1990.
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| Name | Cable troughing |
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| Caption | Cable troughing |
| Location | Industrial |
| Source | Essential Energy |
| Image Id | 242 |
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| Name | Trench covers |
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| Caption | Trench covers |
| Location | Industrial |
| Source | Essential Energy |
| Image Id | 243 |
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| Name | Asbestos conduit |
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| Caption | Asbestos cement conduits have been used to install cables and water/drainage services in substations. Fibre cement conduits in the floor adjacent to switchgear and transformers are typically a non-friable asbestos product. |
| Location | Plant |
| Source | Essential Energy |
| Image Id | 244 |
Asbestos Cement Conduits
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Hard, brittle material, usually grey in colour with low asbestos content (up to 30 per cent). Asbestos Cement conduits were mainly used to convey HV and LV cables into and out of substations, buried under road crossings, containing cables inside or being empty, used as spares alongside roads or buried in the footpath.Extensively used in pit and duct system in Sydney CBD. Sometimes concreted in substation slabs. The use of AC conduits was stopped around 1987, from that date FRC (fibre reinforced concrete) has been used. Asbestos has been identified in the fibre-cement material in HV cable joint covers and cable trench covers. Asbestos has also been identified in the moulded cement material in cable conduits. Asbestos may be present in the troughing used to encase joints, both direct buried and in pits. Asbestos cement conduits have been used to install cablesand water/drainage services in substations. Fibre cement conduits in the flooradjacent to switchgear and transformers are typically a non-friable asbestos product. |
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| Product type | Cement - sheets, moulded product |
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| Other name(s) | FC conduits, conduits, AC ducts, ducts, cable joint covers, cable trench covers |
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Sometimes it is hard to distinguish asbestos cement conduits from cement conduits, the best way is to always take a sample and test. When broken, asbestos-containing conduits will have visible fibres, whereas non-asbestos material will have a clean homogenous break. Asbestos has been identified in the fibre-cement material inHV cable joint covers and cable trench covers. Asbestos has also beenidentified in the moulded cement material in cable conduits. Asbestos may bepresent in the troughing used to encase joints, both direct buried and in pits. |
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| Known uses | Electricity supply |
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| Friable or Non-Friable | Non-Friable |
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| Known place of manufacture | |
| Date / period of manufacture | Pre 1987 |
| Building construction period | 1951-1960,1961-1970,1970-1980,1981-1990 |
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Commercial
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| Name | Cable pit covers |
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| Caption | Cable pit covers inside substations may contain asbestos. |
| Location | Industrial |
| Source | Essential Energy |
| Image Id | 245 |
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