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Leak Detection Methods—A Technical Review

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For safe transmission of various fluids or gases leakage detection in pipelines is very important. The leak of hazardous/dangerous fluids and gases can cause loss of property and lives (e.g., the Bhopal gas tragedy). Hence review of various available technologies should be necessary in order to identify a technology which provides an easy, adaptable, flexible, inexpensive, and efficient approach for real-time distributed data acquisition and monitoring. Based on review one can able to know that which technology has a very low false alarm rate and cost effective one etc. In this paper the performance and ability of the different systems is compared in terms of their leak detection capability.

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    R. Ramadevi, J. Jaiganesh & N. R. Krishnamoorthy

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Ramadevi, R., Jaiganesh, J., Krishnamoorthy, N.R. (2019). Leak Detection Methods—A Technical Review. In: Kumar, A., Mozar, S. (eds) ICCCE 2018. ICCCE 2018. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 500. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0212-1_14

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