EXAMINING THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT TREND OF LONG-DISTANCE STEEP TURN PIPE IMPELLING CONSTRUCTION METHOD (LDSTPICM) THROUGH TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

Abstract

ABSTRACT In support of the government's promoting Taiwan into a high-tech island, and to excel the national economic development and social prosperity, besides efforts made to actively develop Taiwan's local power facilities in power transmission, distribution and conversion systems, but how best to provide highly stabilized and safe power requirements has also emerged as a critical issue to the power industry. As the construction methods are becoming infinitely more complex and difficult following the conversion of underground electric cable piping works, the earlier shield tunneling method and linear propulsion method introduced to the island can no longer support the demand, and only the “Long- distance steep turn pipe impelling” construction technology cam truly satisfy the current versatile power transmission market. The LDSTPICM is of an innovative technology that has not yet been prompted and introduced to the country. The study first attempts to systematically discern the construction method's key technology and implementation tips by interviewing Japanese industry scholars and experts that hold the technology, and then to utilize the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to examine the key factors in the technology transfer of Taiwan Power Company's Phase VI power transmission plan, and at last to summarize the LDSTPICM's future development trend in Taiwan's relevant industries. The study findings reveal that it not only calls for the technology provider and government outfits to render active support by expeditiously drafted relevant laws, regulations and package measures concerning the construction method, but also detailed guidelines concerning the construction method's technical guidelines and operating procedures. Furthermore, with professional know-how and experience accumulation remain the core factors in achieving technology transfer of the construction method, the construction method's being drastically differ from the current propulsion construction method prevailing locally has its key technology primarily lies in the compatibility of curving machinery, curving propulsion piping and functionality of curved piping. As a result, it is prudent to rely on the means of technology transfer for assimilating professional technical capability and through ongoing experience accumulation can the ultimate objective be achieved in speeding up localizing the technology.