Apr 05 2021 Read 17 Times
Author: ABB on behalf of ABB Ltd
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The issue of methane leaks from natural gas pipelines is a very real one, requiring constant monitoring and control to minimize its impact for both environmental and safety reasons. With ABB’s UAV-based mobile gas leak detection system being launched at the end of March 2021, Doug Baer, Global Product Line Manager Laser Analyzers for ABB Measurement & Analytics, explains how the latest generation of mobile gas leak detection measurement technologies can help.
Pipeline networks, especially ones which cross entire countries and run for thousands of miles, will always present an issue when it comes to leakage. The variety of factors at play in operating and maintaining a network, including aging infrastructure, network pressures and the efficiency of any maintenance regimes, mean that leakage in a network can at best only ever be controlled rather than eliminated.