Sensors for Fluid Leak Detection / / MDPI AG - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute.

• VerfasserIn: MDPI AG - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 pages)

Fluid leak detection represents a problem that has attracted the interest of researchers, but not exclusively because in industries and services leaks are frequently common. Indeed, in water or gas supplies, chemical or thermal plants, sea-lines or cooling/heating systems leakage rates can cause important economic losses and sometimes, what it is more relevant, environmental pollution with human, animal or plant lives at risk. This last issue has led to increased national and international regulations with different degrees of severity regarding environmental conservation. Early fluid detection represents an important challenge to avoid the problems mentioned above. This special issue was proposed with the aim of attracting new technological developments and methods in sensors based on physical, chemical or biological principles.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors -- About the Guest Editor -- Editorial: Sensors for Fluid Leak Detection -- Microseismic Monitoring of CO2 Injection at the Penn West Enhanced Oil Recovery Pilot Project, Canada: Implications for Detection of Wellbore Leakage -- Thermal Tracking in Mobile Robots for Leak Inspection Activities -- Optimal Sensor Placement for Leak Location in Water Distribution Networks Using Genetic Algorithms -- GPR-Based Water Leak Models in Water Distribution Systems -- A Proposed Scalable Design and Simulation of Wireless Sensor Network-Based LongDistance Water Pipeline Leakage Monitoring System -- Energy Efficient Cooperation in Underlay RFID Cognitive Networks for a Water Smart Home -- Inverse Transient Analysis for Classification of Wall Thickness Variations in Pipelines -- On the Acoustic Filtering of the Pipe and Sensor in a Buried Plastic Water Pipe and its Effect on Leak Detection: An Experimental Investigation -- Application of Morphological Segmentation to Leaking Defect Detection in Sewer Pipelines -- Implementation of Ultrasonic Sensing for High Resolution Measurement of Binary Gas Mixture Fractions -- A Vibration-Based Strategy for Health Monitoring of Offshore Pipelines' Girth-Welds -- Development of a Piezoelectric Vacuum Sensing Component for a Wide Pressure Range.