Hazardous Liquids Airborne Lidar Observation Study (HALOS)

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Technology and Commercialization
Research Entity:	ITT Industries Space Systems, LLC 1447 St. Paul Street Rochester, New York 14653 Rochester, NY 14653
COTR:	John Pepper, John.Pepper @ dot.gov,
Contract #:	DTRS56-04-T-0012
Project #:	153
Contact Info:	Steven Stearns, Ph.D. Senior Scientist ITT Industries - Space Systems Division 800 Lee Road PO Box 60488 Rochester, NY 14606-0488 tel 585 269-5967 fax 585 269-5603 steven.stearns @ itt.com
Peer Review	Very Effective (PHP-1-2006, Feb 7-9, 2006)
Technology Demonstrated?	Yes
Commercialized (in whole/part)?	Yes
Commercial Partner	Steven Stearns, Ph.D. Senior Scientist ITT Industries - Space Systems Division 800 Lee Road PO Box 60488 Rochester, NY 14606-0488 Phone: (585) 269-5600 http://www.ssd.itt.com/
Net Improvement	This research significantly enhanced the capability of the current ITT Airborne Natural Gas Emission Lidar (ANGEL) technology to detect methane leaks in pipelines. Confidence was raised in the ANGEL ability to detect small liquid leaks as well. An integration and demonstration of GIS imagery, Midwave Infra-red cameras and Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) has resulted in near real-time DIAL collection and data processing improving from 3-4 weeks to one day. Improvements to speed up the ANGEL route and mission planning software processes resulted in a drastic reduction in cycle time. At the conclusion of this research, Route Generation can now be accomplished in the field and requires only 1 hour of effort to generate 100 miles of pipeline routes. This is a 30X improvement in speed.
Financial and Status Data
Project Status:	Completed
Start Fiscal Year:	2005 (10/15/2004)
End Fiscal Year:	2007 (09/14/2007)
PHMSA $$ Budgeted:	$553,114.00
$$ Co-Funded:	$555,115.00
Total Project Cost:	$1,108,229.00

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Main Objective

ITT is extending its ANGEL (Airborne Natural Gas Emission Lidar) technology to the detection of small hazardous liquid and refined product leaks. The ANGEL system is designed to remotely detect, quantify, and map small plumes of methane and ethane, the principle constituents of natural gas. In addition to the hardware and software systems, ITT has developed expertise in the spectroscopy, modeling, and empirical/physical testing and validation of airborne dispersed hazardous vapors. These tests have yielded preliminary results that indicate the detection of vapors from hazardous liquids is possible with minimal changes to the existing ANGEL system.

Public Abstract

The detection of small leaks of hazardous liquids is one of the major challenges currently facing the DOT and the pipeline industry. Currently, no commercial system exists to rapidly and efficiently detect, quantify, and precisely locate leaks from hazardous liquid pipeline. ITT is extending its current Airborne Natural Gas Emission Lidar (ANGEL) technology to detect small leaks of hazardous liquids. Recent ITT R&D involves the development of ANGEL Rapid Emergency Response capabilities. http://www.ssd.itt.com/angel/

Other Files

Success Story 2006

DOT_HALOS_Success_Story_(final).pdf (380,928 bytes) [View] [Download/Save...]

Technical Reports and Documents

Presentation from 12/13/2006.

ITT_Web_Presentation_for_DOT.pdf (1,946,689 bytes) [View] [Download/Save...]

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