Title: The design of strain sensitising of high-sensitivity SAW sensor based on FBG

Authors: Wei Zhang

Addresses: College of Software Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, JiangXi, 330013, China

Abstract: It is very necessary to build the integrity of the oil and gas transport pipe network in the steady development of the oil and gas industry. There are a lot of oil and gas pipelines have been in service for more than two decades in China, which means a big security risk. Pipeline leak is a typical example of security incidents. Therefore, the establishment of a system of effective detection pipeline leak will be a priority. We propose fibre Bragg grating (FBG)-based optical fibre sensors for detecting pipeline leakage in oil and gas transportation systems. By placing a sensor on each end of a pipe, the velocity and position of the pipeline leakage can be detected through a series of calculations on the correlation analysis, the time difference, and the characteristics of surface waves. We improve the sensitivity and the accuracy of positioning for the FBG-based optical fibre sensors by enhancing the FBG strain response sensitivity.

Keywords: oil and gas transport; pipeline leakage; surface wave; FBG-based optical fibre sensors.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICT.2018.089030

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2018 Vol.12 No.1/2, pp.175 - 185

Received: 05 Nov 2014
Accepted: 18 Jul 2015
Published online: 04 Jan 2018 *

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