Designing a cost-effective and reliable pipeline leak-detection system

Pipes and Pipelines International

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 20-26

  Zhang, Jun ^a  

^a REL Instrumentation Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; LEAK DETECTION; LEAKAGE (FLUID); PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE; PIPELINES; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ATMOS PIPE; FALSE ALARM; LEAK DETECTION SYSTEM;

DETECTORS;

EID: 0030732783     PISSN: 0032020X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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