Remote monitoring of leaks in storage tanks using electrical resistance tomography: Application at the Hanford site

Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 11-24

  Daily, William ^a   Ramirez, Abelardo ^a   Binley, Andrew ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLIND TEST; CASED WELLS; DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; ELECTRICAL DATA; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE ARRAYS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HANFORD; HANFORD SITE; LONG-TERM INTEGRITY; POINT ELECTRODES; REMOTE MONITORING; REMOTE OPERATION; SINGLE SHELL TANKS; SODIUM THIOSULFATE; STORAGE TANK; TANK WASTE; UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS; WASHINGTON;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; POLLUTION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SODIUM; TESTING; TOMOGRAPHY;

STEEL TANKS;

EID: 34249850140     PISSN: 10831363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4133/JEEG9.1.11     Document Type: Article

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