TY - CONF A1 - Stajanca, Pavol A1 - Baensch, Franziska A1 - Baer, Wolfram A1 - Chruscicki, Sebastian A1 - Homann, Tobias A1 - Seifert, Stefan A1 - Schmidt, Dirk A1 - Weltschev, Margit A1 - Wossidlo, Peter A1 - Habib, Abdel Karim T1 - Monitoring of pipes by distributed acoustic fibre optic sensors – A large-scale test on a pipeline under realistic operation condition T2 - Proceedings of the 13th Pipeline Technology Conference N2 - The monitoring of oil and gas pipelines by means of distributed fibre optic sensors is becoming common. The most recent development in the field of fibre optic sensing is the distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), which allows to detect and to localize third party threats to pipelines. For this purpose, fibre optic telecommunication cables located close to the pipelines are usually used. However, DAS carries a far greater potential for continuous condition monitoring of pipelines. The interdisciplinary research project AGIFAMOR (Ageing Infrastructures – Fibre Optic Monitoring of Pipes) at BAM investigates a new technical approach to extend the application field of DAS towards the detection and localization of acoustic signals that indicate critical alterations and certain damage scenarios originated from within the pipeline or the pipe wall. Therefore, the optical fibre sensors are applied onto the pipe itself and the application procedure towards an optimal acoustic signal transduction is optimized. A number of laboratory scale experiments were performed focusing on the signal transmission of acoustic signals as well as the detection of damages in the pipe wall by means of DAS. Furthermore, real-scale tests on a pipeline DN100 of 38m length have been carried out at the BAM test site for technical safety (BAM-TTS) to study the detection and localization of leaks and of changing flow profiles due to corrosion or sedimentation processes. T2 - 13th Pipeline Technology Conference CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 12.03.2018 KW - Pipeline monitoring KW - Distributed acoustic sensing KW - Fiber optic sensing PY - 2018 SN - 2198-428X SP - Poster session, paper 9, 1 EP - 8 PB - EITEP (Euro Institute for Information and Technology Transfer in Environmental Protection) CY - Hannover AN - OPUS4-44519 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -