DETECTION OF UNAUTHORIZED CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT IN PIPELINE RIGHT-OF-WAYS

Natural gas transmission companies mark the right-of-way areas where pipelines are buried with warning signs to prevent accidental third party damage. Nevertheless, pipelines are sometimes damaged by third party construction equipment. A single incident can be devastating, causing death and millions of dollars of property loss. This damage would be prevented if potentially hazardous construction equipment could be detected, identified and an alert given before the pipeline was damaged. The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) is developing a system to solve this problem by using an optical fiber as a distributed sensor and interrogating the fiber with an optical time domain reflectometer.

• Corporate Authors:

  Gas Technology Institute

  1700 South Mount Prospect Road
  Des Plaines, IL  United States  60018
• Authors:
  • Huebler, J E
• Publication Date: 2002-4-26

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 28 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction equipment; Crashes; Natural gas pipelines; Optical fibers; Pipelines; Reflectorized materials; Right of way (Land); Sensors
• Subject Areas: Pipelines; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00936448
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: GTI Project 61139
• Contract Numbers: DE-FC26-01NT41160
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 28 2003 12:00AM