Development of a monitoring tool for high pressure oil and gas pipelines.

确保石油和天然气管道保持畅通和泄漏是一个具有挑战性的问题，也是一个具有巨大经济影响的问题。曼彻斯特大学的研究导致了一种基于声学的系统的开发和初步商业化，该系统用于检测充满静态气体的管道中的堵塞和泄漏。这项技术的一个重要好处是它是非侵入性的，只需要进入管道的一端。本文提出的项目将进一步扩展该技术，开发一种适用于充液管道和含有流动气体或液体的管道的原型系统。

Ensuring that oil and gas pipelines remain free of blockages and leakage is a challenging problem and one with enormous financial ramifications. Research at the University of Manchester has led to the development and preliminary commercialisation of an acoustic based system for detecting blockages and leakage in pipelines filled with static gas. An important benefit of the technique is that it is non-invasive and only requires access to one end of the pipeline. The project proposed here will extend the technique further by developing a prototype system that will be suitable for liquid filled pipelines and pipelines containing flowing gas or liquid.