Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS
Volume 65, Issue 2, Pages 1626-1635Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2017.2733449
Keywords
Breach detection; epoxy coating; microwave ring resonator sensor; pipeline integrity
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A planar microwave resonator sensor is designed, customized, and fabricated to detect coating breaches in industrial steel pipelines. The sensor, which utilizes a ring-shaped resonator to maximize the sensitivity at its core, is tuned to 2.5 GHz with a quality factor of 280. In the setup, the sensor is grounded to a piece of steel pipeline with an Epoxy-100 coating, which provides the substrate beneath the microstrip structure. It is demonstrated that any change in the gap height between the substrate layer and the pipeline, from 0 to 3.5 mm, produces a significant resonant frequency variation and bandwidth change in the sensor's response. The sensor structure demonstrates sensitivity and selectivity to air and water penetration to the breach. The sensor structure described in this work is a compact, low-cost solution and has potential for further miniaturization in mobile applications which may serve as a method for pipeline breach detection.
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