Technologies

Name	Program Area	Status
NO-BLO® DBS System	Damage Prevention and Mitigation -- Excavation Damage Prevention	Commercial Product
Description:	The Mueller DBS System is a portable system of tools that allows field technicians to perform many tasks related to the gas service line, including meter replacement and work on any part of the meter set, such as risers and regulators, even removal and replacement of defective service line pipes and...
Odorant Effectiveness	Damage Prevention and Mitigation -- Excavation Damage Prevention	Developed Guidelines
Description:	The project provides a "Practical Pipeline Operator Guide" to manage odor fade issues associated with typical gas system operating conditions and materials of construction. This required identification, prioritization, and quantification of the variables that lead to odor fade. The project...
ORFEUS – Look Ahead Technology for HDD	Damage Prevention and Mitigation -- Excavation Damage Prevention Damage Prevention and Mitigation -- Pipe Locating	Under Development
Description:	ORFEUS is a pre-commercial system based on Ground penetrating Radar (GPR) Technology. The system is attached to the Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) head for obstacle detection during drilling. The system is used to detect cross bores when the installed gas lines inadvertently transects a sewer...
Permanently Installed Pipeline Monitoring Systems	Damage Prevention and Mitigation -- Damage Mitigation and Repair	Under Development
Description:	This PHMSA-funded project designed and implemented a built-in monitoring system for assessing corrosion damage in pipelines. The system will be able to operate in two monitoring modes: 1) real-time continuous and 2) periodic, routinely-scheduled inspections. The system is based on permanently...
Pipeline Damage Prevention Radar	Damage Prevention and Mitigation -- Pipe Locating	Under Development
Description:	The laser-illumination remote sensing technique measures atmospheric methane concentrations from an airborne platform (see picture). Similar flight-detection technology will utilize a dual-band airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to reliably detect excavation damage threats. The technology...
Pipeline Integrity Assessment Using In-Line Inspection (ILI)	Threats and Integrity Management -- Anomaly Detection and Characterization	Under Development
Description:	This PHMSA-funded project investigated two technologies: Structured Waveform Magnetic Field (SWMF) and Low-Frequency Eddy Current with Saturating Field. These technologies have the potential to produce an ILI tool that can exceed these limitations and provide ID, mid-wall, and OD defect inspection...
Portable Methane Detector (PMD)	Damage Prevention and Mitigation -- Leak Detection	Commercial Product
Description:	The handheld PMD is a small, lightweight, battery operated instrument used to survey, pinpoint, and grade leaks using filtered infrared spectroscopy technology. The device has a high sensitivity of 1 ppm to detect methane leaks in a range of 0-100% gas volume for faster natural gas leak...
Proactive and Hybrid Sensing Based In-line Pipeline Defects Diagnosis and Prognosis	Threats and Integrity Management -- Anomaly Detection and Characterization	Under Development
Description:	The PHMSA-funded technology is a nondestructive (NDE) hybrid sensing technique, thermos-electromagnetic-acoustic (TEA) method to detect and characterize types of pipe damage with high resolution and sensitivity. The NDE detection results are integrated with probabilistic methods and mechanical...
Quantitative Nondestructive Pipeline Stress Assessment Tool	Threats and Integrity Management -- Anomaly Detection and Characterization	Commercial Product
Description:	The G2MT’s eStress™ system is used in the residual stress assessment of pipeline damage. The system was developed through PHMSA for non-destructive in-service detection of damage severity for steel pipes. The inspection tool measures residual stresses around pipeline damage areas to determine the...
Radar Monitoring of Slope Stability along Pipeline ROW	Damage Prevention and Mitigation -- Excavation Damage Prevention	Commercial Product
Description:	The technology is a ground-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for Monitoring of Slope Stability along Pipeline ROW. is a radar technique uses two or more synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images to produce images of surface deformation...