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Liquid and gas pipe line operators are benefitting from advances in instrumentation that help them do their job better and more safely in the new business pattern. Four pipe line [...]

Buckeye Pipe Line's new SCADA system incorporates real-time leak monitoring and batch tracking in a growing arrangement that eventually will monitor about 8,000 measured and computed pressures on the company's [...]

Petroleum marketers should evaluate several important factors when buying leak detection and fuel management systems for petroleum storage tanks. These include the level of the system manufacturer's product support and technical capability, the price of the system and the level of automation offered by the system., Marketers should ask the right questions and manufacturers should have the right answers before marketers make buying decisions on the wide variety of leak detection and fuel management systems now [...]

A model-based leak detection, PLDS, developed by Modisette Associates, Inc., Houston has been operating on the Solvay et Cie ethylene pipeline since 1989. The 6-in. pipeline extends from Antwerp to [...]

Using new guidelines, operators can find the best analyzer to meet leak detection needs A better understanding of portable hydrocarbon detectors' strengths and limitations will help operators develop, implement and [...]

Smart-pig program benefits from evolving technology but several miniaturization challenges remain Small-diameter, smart inspection pigs are demanded by operators and regulators. In response, researchers are shrinking technology to surmount challenges [...]

It has been more than three years since the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its final rules on underground storage tanks, creating a compliance-driven market for leak detection equipment and [...]

Technological advances and demands on automotive suppliers to comply with international quality standards have enhanced the science of leak detection in metal parts and sub-assemblies in the late 1990s. Leak-detection systems to date have the capacity to accurately identify leaks of a few cc/min at existing plant production speeds and test conditions and pass/fail rates for statistical process control and traceability purposes.

Specially developed for manual or semi-automatic test benches with a high level of specification and the latest advances in measurement technology; the F530 Leak Detector has joined ATEQ's 5 Series [...]

From Ai Qualitek, the Q196 is a highly sensitive hand-held leak detector, ideal for tracing leaks in laboratory equipment such a liquid or gas chromatographs, mass spectrometers, fume cupboards or [...]

Statistical model helps rate pipeline inspection sensors Application of the detection model (Part 1, OGJ, Sept. 4, p. 80) to the pipeline inspection process requires that some features of the [...]

Model evaluates pipeline inspection sensors Basic statistical decision methods can help determine the performance of pipeline inspection-tool sensors and make comparisons among various sensing technologies. As long as the equipment [...]

THE ENVIRONMENT Agency has issued a guide to detecting leakage at fuel storage facilities, using 'wetstock reconciliation' (WR). In most cases, the Agency expects leak detection systems to have a [...]