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Hollow-core fiber sensing technique for pipeline leak detection

Challener et al., 2018

Document ID
4554604158978314233
Author
Challener W
Kasten M
Karp J
Choudhury N
Publication year
Publication venue
Photonic Instrumentation Engineering V

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Recently there has been increased interest on the part of federal and state regulators to detect and quantify emissions of methane, an important greenhouse gas, from various parts of the oil and gas infrastructure including well pads and pipelines. Pressure and/or flow …
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