A deep-ocean mass spectrometer to monitor hydrocarbon seeps and pipelines

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 563-570

  McMurtry, Gary M ^a   Wiltshire, John C ^b   Bossuyt, Arnaud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep ocean instrumentation; Hydrocarbon; Mass spectrometer; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS OPERATION; PRESSURE HOUSING; SILICON-COATED MEMBRANES; SOLENOID VALVES;

CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MONITORING; PETROLEUM PIPELINES; SILICON; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

HYDROCARBONS;

EID: 27744463204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2005-67146     Document Type: Conference Paper

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