Experimental study on leak detection and location for gas pipeline based on acoustic method

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 90-102

  Meng, Lingya ^a   Yuxing, Li ^a   Wuchang, Wang ^a   Juntao, Fu ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

Acoustic method; Gas pipeline; Leak location; Signal recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; BACKGROUND NOISE; DISTURBING SIGNALS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; EXTRACTION METHOD; FALSE ALARM RATE; FIELD TRANSMISSION; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; LEAK LOCATION; LEAK LOCATIONS; LEAK TESTS; LONG DISTANCES; MEAN VALUES; PEAK VALUES; POSITIONING ACCURACY; RELATIVE ERRORS; SIGNAL RECOGNITION; SIMILARITY ANALYSIS; TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; WAVE CHARACTERISTICS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; GAS PIPELINES; PIPE; SIGNAL DETECTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 83255194035     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

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