Imagine a length of ordinary telecomm grade optical fiber up to 30
km long. Envisage obtaining accurate, real-time temperature
measurements along its entire length, feeding this data back to a
control room (or even to your office on the other side of the
world). Now imagine this optical fiber wrapped around a reactor
vessel looking for hot spots, around an LNG storage tank looking
for leaks or along a pipeline monitoring its integrity.
This is already being accomplished with distributed temperature
sensor (DTS) technology. DTS is a new temperature sensing
technology that has already been proven in the field. The only
limitation is the imagination.
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