The ferret uses a simple hydraulic process to locate leaks.
Water leak detection methods for pipelines.
The ferret leak locator device uses hydraulics to trace a leak within millimetres.
Echologics has a long history of developing award winning acoustic technologies for leak detection on buried water pipelines.
This is powered by the water pressure in the leaking pipe so the costs of this leak detection is low.
Once the ferret head is inflated with water the pressure is higher than in the water pipe so no water can pass.
Five water leak detection methods 1.
The ferret head is placed inside the pipe which is effectively a deflated balloon attached to a long cord allowing for water to get past it.
Most of the leakage management related methods developed so far can be broadly classified as follows.
1 leakage assessment methods which are focusing on quantifying the amount of water lost.
The most effective method of detecting pipeline leaks is installing sensing equipment such as fiber optics along the entire length of pipe to be monitored.