An underwater leak detection apparatus (100) comprises a housing (102) having a plane intersecting a pitch axis and a roll axis of the housing (102), a transducer (104) arranged to ensonify a volume of a first fluid, at least two sensor elements (108) substantially upstanding with respect to the plane and arranged to generate, when in use, respective signals comprising data in respect of the at least two sensor elements (108), and a processing resource (200) operably coupled to the at least two sensor elements (108), the processing resource (200) being arranged to support a correlator (304) and a leak detection module (310). The correlator (304) is arranged to receive the signal and to correlate the data in respect of the at least two sensor elements (108), thereby generating correlation output data. The leak detection module (310) is arranged to analyse the correlation output data in respect of the at least two sensor elements (108) and identify data of the correlation output data indicative of a presence of a substantially elongate volume of a second fluid in the ensonified volume of the first fluid. The leak detection module (310) is further arranged to generate an alert signal in response to identification of the data indicative of the presence of the substantially elongate volume of the second fluid.


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    Titel :

    Underwater leak detection apparatus, underwater leak detection system and method of detecting an underwater leak of a fluid


    Beteiligte:
    CROOK ROBERT (Autor:in) / PALMER ANDREW (Autor:in) / BENNETT PHILIP (Autor:in) / WROBEL DAVID (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2015-07-01


    Medientyp :

    Patent


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Klassifikation :

    IPC:    G01M TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES , Prüfen der statischen oder dynamischen Massenverteilung rotierender Teile von Maschinen oder Konstruktionen / B63G OFFENSIVE OR DEFENSIVE ARRANGEMENTS ON VESSELS , Angriffs- oder Verteidigungsanordnungen auf Schiffen / G01S RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING , Funkpeilung / G10K Tonerzeugungsvorrichtungen , SOUND-PRODUCING DEVICES



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