An evaluation of acoustic reflectometry for leakage and blockage detection

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science

Volumn 222, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 959-966

  Papadopoulou, K A ^a   Shamout, M N ^a   Lennox, Barry ^a   Mackay, D ^b   Taylor, A R ^a   Turner, J T ^a   Wang, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic reflectometry; Blockage detection; Leakage detection

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; EXPERIMENTS; GAS INDUSTRY; GAS PIPELINES; NATURAL GAS PIPELINES; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACOUSTIC REFLECTOMETRY; BLOCKAGE DETECTION; COMPLEX NETWORKS; LEAKAGE DETECTION; PIPELINE NETWORKS; REFLECTOMETRY; SECOND PHASE;

PIPELINES;

EID: 48649111137     PISSN: 09544062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544062JMES873     Document Type: Article

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