MAINTAINING THE RIGHT GAS LEAK DETECTION STRATEGY

摘要

WHILE LEAK DETECTION guidelines have been established for liquid transmission pipelines for a long time, the guidelines or standards for leak detection on gas pipelines are few and typically company specific. The methodologies and tools that can be implemented on liquid pipelines with a high degree of success do not work nearly as well for gas transmission pipelines because of the physical state of gas and the operational philosophy of the gas pipeline.