TY - CONF A1 - Hussels, Maria-Teresa A1 - Chruscicki, Sebastian A1 - Habib, Abdel Karim A1 - Krebber, Katerina T1 - Distributed acoustic fibre-optic sensors for condition monitoring of pipelines T2 - Proceedings of SPIE N2 - Industrial piping systems are particularly relevant to public safety and the continuous availability of infrastructure. However, condition monitoring systems based on many discrete sensors are generally not well-suited for widespread piping systems due to considerable installation effort, while use of distributed fibre-optic sensors would reduce this effort to a minimum. Specifically distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is employed for detection of third-party threats and leaks in oil and gas pipelines in recent years and can in principle also be applied to industrial plants. Further possible detection routes amenable by DAS that could identify damage prior to emission of medium are subject of a current project at BAM, which aims at qualifying distributed fibre optic methods such as DAS as a means for spatially continuous monitoring of industrial piping systems. Here, first tests on a short pipe are presented, where optical fibres were applied directly to the surface. An artificial signal was used to define suitable parameters of the measurement system and compare different ways of applying the sensor. T2 - Sixth European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors CY - Limerick, Ireland DA - 31.05.2016 KW - fibre-optic condition monitoring KW - distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) KW - pipeline monitoring KW - sensor application PY - 2016 SN - 978-1-5106-0219-9 DO - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2236809 SN - 0277-786X VL - Vol. 9916 SP - Article Number: 99162Y PB - SPIE CY - Bellingham, Washington USA AN - OPUS4-37234 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -