The concept of a system for monitoring the condition of gas transmission pipelines and their surroundings

The aim of the research and development project is to develop a non-invasive system to periodically monitor the integrity of gas pipelines and their surroundings. By defining the research area, which is related to the territorially extensive network of transmission gas pipelines, it has been assumed in the project that the task will be carried out by a system consisting of: measurement subsystem, which will be a manned helicopter with a mounted infrared spectroradiometer and information subsystem, which will be a computing server with installed software for processing the recorded hyperspectral data. The infrared spectroradiometer with specialized software for methane detection will be placed on a stabilization platform suspended under the helicopter. The ground subsystem will consist of: module for managing and storing data from inspection flights, module for processing data on methane detection, module for processing data on monitoring other hazards potentially occurring in the region of transmission pipelines and module for generating inspection reports. Especially for the project, an experimental stand will be built to simulate a gas pipeline leak, which will be necessary to carry out verification tests carried out by the air platform.