Leak detection methods—A technical review

Abstract

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.