| Summary: | Prompt leak location and leak area determination in oil and gas pipeline
installations is an indispensable approach to controlling petroleum products
wastages in pipes. However, there is an evident lack of literature
information on this subject. In this paper, we modelled leak location
detection and leak area determination in pipes by applying two methodologies
and gave an illustrative example using simulated data with the aid of Matlab.
A comparison of these two approaches resulted in an error of 6.24%,
suggesting that the closer the leak is to the measurement station, the lower
will be the time interval between two successive waves that will pass through
the leak and get to the measurement station. The relationship between the
pipe area and coefficient of reflection is parabolic. This contribution is
valuable to pipeline engineers in the economic control of leaks.
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