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Muhammad Umar1, Muhammad Farooq Siddique1, Jaeyoung Kim2

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Area of Science:

  • Engineering
  • Signal Processing
  • Data Science

Background:

  • Pipeline leaks pose significant safety, environmental, and economic risks.
  • Detecting leaks is challenging due to non-stationary signals and varying operating conditions, especially with limited fault data.
  • Existing methods often rely on machine learning, which may not be suitable when labeled data is scarce.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a statistically grounded, signal-processing framework for pipeline leak detection.
  • To develop a method that does not require machine learning or deep learning models.
  • To enable reliable and early leak detection using readily available normal-operation data.

Main Methods:

  • Representing pipeline signals using a multi-domain feature set (time, frequency, time-frequency).
  • Comparing feature distributions between monitoring windows and a normal operation reference using complementary statistics (energy distance, MMD, Hotelling's T²).
  • Fusing statistics into a unified health indicator (HI) and comparing against statistically derived thresholds.

Main Results:

  • Achieved false-alarm rates below 1% in experimental validation with gas and water pipelines.
  • Demonstrated rapid leak detection within 1-2 samples of leak onset.
  • Exceeded 99% detection accuracy across various operating conditions with strong statistical significance (p-values [Formula: see text] to [Formula: see text]).

Conclusions:

  • The proposed framework offers an interpretable, data-efficient, and statistically rigorous solution for pipeline leak monitoring.
  • It provides automated detection with controlled false-alarm rates, independent of operating conditions.
  • The method is robust and effective even with scarce labeled fault data.