S.G Filter And Speed of Pressure Wave Applied to locate leak in water pipe networks

Abstract

The design of leak detection systems that occur on water pipes is a priority area of applied research that has an economic and health impact on the future of any nation. The various control systems and tools that currently exist throughout the world are designed to ensure permanent and effective monitoring of natural resources that have become rare and precious. The determining factor for the choice of a good detector is the cost in the first place, flexibility, and speed of processing. In this work, the basic idea is to simultaneously acquire from a new inexpensive electronic device two signals from two pressure transmitters installed on a prototype pipe carried out at the laboratory. These signals are usually immersed in noise. For this, denoising by an appropriate digital filter is indispensable. In our case, the Savitzky-Golay filter (S.G) presents its efficiency. The denoising performances are obtained from the calculation of SNR. The denoised signals are analysed to confirm the presence of the leak in the case of its existence. Mathematical equations are applied to determine the exact position of the leak with regards to one of the sensors. Validation tests are required to determine the position of the leak when the difference time between the signals is known.