Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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586257 | Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries | 2012 | 8 Pages |
Gas leaks can cause major incidents resulting in both human injuries and financial losses. To avoid such situations, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted to the development of reliable techniques for detecting gas leakage. As knowing about the existence of a leak is not always enough to launch a corrective action, some of the leak detection techniques were designed to allow the possibility of locating the leak. The main purpose of this paper is to identify the state-of-the-art in leak detection and localization methods. Additionally we evaluate the capabilities of these techniques in order to identify the advantages and disadvantages of using each leak detection solution.
► State-of-the-art in leak detection techniques is presented. ► Leak detection methods that have leak localization capabilities are pointed out. ► Advantages and disadvantages of each technique are presented.