Medical gases can be identified simply if they are supplied at different pipeline pressures. Routine maintenance errors, accidental pipeline cross-connections, or gas failures, can be automatically detected by incorporating a pneumatic unit with pressure-sensitive valves into the anaesthetic machine. A fail-safe method of ensuring the delivery of the correct gases to the patient is described.

With the rapid increase in oil and gas consumption in the world’s energy consumption structure, the pace of global oil–gas pipeline construction has accelerated. Pipeline accidents that cause huge economic losses occur frequently, so inspection and maintenance of oil and gas pipelines have become critical issues. This paper presents a helical-contact deformation measuring method based on a mult...

Girth weld cracking is one of the main failure modes in oil and gas pipelines; girth weld cracking inspection has great economic and social significance for the intrinsic safety of pipelines. This paper introduces the typical girth weld defects of oil and gas pipelines and the common nondestructive testing methods, and systematically generalizes the progress in the studies on technical principl...

Oil and gas transmission pipelines are critical items of infrastructure in providing energy sources to regions and countries. Steel pipes are commonly used which can be subject to both internal and external corrosion. This paper presents an advanced nondestructive inspection technique for detection of oil-gas pipeline corrosion defect. The Pulsed Eddy Current (PEC) method has been successfully ...