PR753-233900-R01 Enhanced Leak Detection Using Minimally Invasive Multi-Sensor Device Based Inspection

The project team investigated the feasibility of identifying pipeline leaks using Novel sensing approaches that have been recently gaining popularity in the “Pipeline Integrity assessment” realm (such as multi-Sensor inline inspection tools) that incorporate sensors such as Audio, Magnetometry, Pressure etc. The flow loop setup at the PRCI TDC site was leveraged to create a customized test setup and a test execution methodology was developed and executed towards this end. Two Sensing equipment vendors (hereinafter referred to as Vendor A and Vendor B) were used to collect various sensor datasets on separate test runs In test scenarios where leak signatures were identified, the team investigated the feasibility of quantifying/characterizing the leak and to ascertain the minimum leak size that can be reliably detected.