Leakage diagnosis through experimental modeling and simulation

Abstract

Abstract The detection and location of leaks in water pipes is an important research topic, not only because of the waste of energy and material resources used in the extraction but also to avoid serious environmental, social and economic consequences. This paper describes experimental modeling and simulation of leaks using computational fluid dynamics software, and LabVIEW software where a virtual instrument was designed to test the simulation when detecting a leak in a pipeline. These techniques were tested on a piping bench carried out as an experiment in the automation laboratory of the Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, Ocaña, Colombia. Simulations and experiments were carried out and it was discovered that using simulation techniques it is possible to obtain a result that detects the leak and shows its location.