Role and Characterization of Leaks under Transient Conditions

The significance and impact of leaks in a pipeline system creates new opportunities of leak detection. In essence, the concept is to use the pressure response from a transient event to locate and size a leak. Previously, Brunone determined both the location and size of a leak on the basis of the pressure trace during a transient event at a measurement section on the basis of the well-known properties of pressure waves. More recently, formal …