A Pipeline Leak Detection Method Based on MGD-KLD and On-Delay Timer

Leaks in natural gas pipelines can cause very serious safety accidents, and timely detection and remedial action can greatly reduce the losses. In recent years, pipeline leak detection has received extensive studies. Most methods use pressure sensors or acoustic sensors to detect pipelines, but there are certain limitations on the usage scenarios and detection time delays. On this basis, this paper selects maglev vibration detector to detect the vibration signal of pipelines. The difficulty lies in that, sudden changes in vibration signals due to external disturbances, may lead to false alarms. Therefore, this paper proposes a pipeline leak detection method using Multivariate Gaussian Distribution based Kullback-Leibler Divergence (MGD-KLD) and on-delay timer to reduce false alarms during the detection process. In this paper, by constructing a simulated pipeline platform for leak experiments and applying the above method to process the experimental data, the false alarm rate of pipeline leak detection can be effectively reduced.