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Article: IR radiation under study as natural gas leak detector. (infrared)
- Article from:
- Pipeline & Gas Journal
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
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In an effort to reduce the cost and improve and effectiveness of natural gas leak surveys, Gas Research Institute is investigating the use of remote-sensing, laser-based techniques that take advantage of the infrared (IR) spectral absorption properties of natural gas. GRI believes the result could be the development of a device to detect gas leaks at considerable distances and provide images.
In today's gas distribution companies, common practice with state-of-the art technology is to conduct natural gas leak surveys with instruments that rely on a point-sampling technique that requires the detection equipment to be brought close to a point of a leak site to obtain a ...