Measuring and testing – With fluid pressure – Leakage
Patent
1992-07-27
1994-03-29
Williams, Hezron E.
Measuring and testing
With fluid pressure
Leakage
G01M 332
Patent
active
052974235
ABSTRACT:
A method for inventory maintenance and leak detection in liquid storage tanks and dispensing lines, that combines tank level measurements, tank product temperature measurements, output flow measurements, liquid product characteristics data, initial product delivery volume data, and redundantly calculates changes in the quantity of liquid product within the tank and compares these calculations to determine abnormalities in the changes in the quantities of product within the tank. Changes in the quantity of product within the tank are verified as either the delivery of additional product into the tank or the dispensing of product from the tank as with a customer sale. Changes that cannot be verified as either delivery into or dispensing from the tank are appropriately characterized as possible leak conditions in the tank or lines. The system additionally incorporates an accuracy improving process of restrapping or recharacterizing the physical conditions within the tank and recalibrating the flow meters associated with dispensing product from the tank. The combination of redundant measurements of volume changes and continuous recalibration of system measurements, along with the incorporation of product temperature measurements and product liquid/vapor state determinations, allows the system to detect with greater accuracy anomalies in the quantity of product within the tank.
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Dunn William D.
Dunn William W.
Keating Jerome P.
Integrated Product Systems, Inc.
Roskos Joseph W.
Williams Hezron E.
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