In February 2007, the U.S. Department of Energy, BP Exploration (Alaska), and the U.S. Geological Survey, collected the first open-hole formation pressure response data in a gas hydrate reservoir (the “Mount Elbert” stratigraphic test well) using Schlumberger’s Modular Dynamics Formation Tester (MDT) wireline tool. As part of an ongoing effort to compare the world’s leading gas hydrate reservoi...

Background: One of the substances with a high potential of damaging that nowadays is used widely in industry and human environment is LPG gas cylinders. Aim: The purpose of this study is modeling the consequences of gas leakage in domestic cylinders containing LPG (Liquefied petroleum gas). Subjects and Methods: The factors affecting discharging and emissions of LPG gas in 26, 60, 78 and 107 li...

In this article we introduce a novel operating principle for a temperature modulated electronic nose. The aim is to perform gas discrimination with metal oxide gas sensors in natural, uncontrolled environments where the sensor is exposed to patches of gas only for short periods of time. The proposed Parallelized Temperature Modulated e-nose (PTM e-nose) allows to speed-up discrimination of gase...

Detecting changes in the response of metal oxide (MOX) gas sensors deployed in an open sampling system is a hard problem. It is relevant for applications such as gas leak detection in coal mines [1], [2] or large scale pollution monitoring [3],[4] where it is unpractical to continuously store or transfer sensor readings and reliable calibration is hard to achieve. Under these circumstances it i...

SnO2 nanobelts (NBs) have unique structural and functional properties which attract great attention in gas detecting. In this work, Eu doping is adopted to improve the gas sensitivity of pure SnO2, especially to enhance the response to one single gas. The Eu-doped SnO2 NBs, pure-SnO2 NBs, and their single NB devices are fabricated by simple techniques. The sensing properties of the two sensors ...

In this report, zinc oxide thin film was successfully deposited on a glass substrate by using simple and low-cost technique i.e. modified Successive Ion Layer Adsorption Reaction (SILAR). Prepared characterized for its physical chemical properties XRD diffraction, Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), UV-VIS spectroscopy, Raman Fourier transf...

The detection of partial discharge through analysis of SF(6) gas components in gas-insulated switchgear, is significant for the diagnosis and assessment of the operating state of power equipment. The present study proposes the use of a TiO(2) nanotube array sensor for detecting the SF(6) decomposition product SO(2), and the application of the anodic oxidation method for the directional growth o...

this study presents the electric behavior of sandwich devices based on porous silicon (ps) thin films with au/ps/si/cu structure when the material’s surface is exposed to different gases. ps thin films were fabricated by the electrochemical anodization method of si–c (100) substrates with resistivity 1.4-2.6 ωcm. samples were anodized in a solution of hf (48%), c2h5oh (99.98%) and distilled wat...