Leak Detection: Catching And Monitoring Leaks As They Form

Echologics, a division of Mueller Corporation, is an acoustic company doing acoustic-based leak detection and condition assessment. Eric Stacey, Product Manager with Echologics, joined Water Online Radio for an interview to discuss Echologics’ lastest technologies.

“Leak detection is a problem for every utility in North America and Europe, and anywhere there’s aging infrastructure.” Stacey said. Echologics developed the EchoShore system to detect leaks. It is a permanently installed leak detection system for transmission main systems, based on proprietary leak detection technology, and focuses on the most critical of the transmission main systems. The system is permanently monitoring, catching leaks as they form and you can watch the progression and decide when to repair them.

“Knowing that leak detection is our core capability, when developing this system, we thought that our customers may want to be able to monitor other parameters out in the transmission system. Static pressure, TSS, free chlorine, total chlorine, these sorts of things,” Stacey said. “So we incorporated sensor inputs into our system. You have the ability to plug in three sensor inputs, a four to 20 million signal and read anything else out in the system that might be of importance to you.”

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