{"id":1265,"date":"2014-11-27T23:42:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T07:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2014-11-27T23:42:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T07:42:14","slug":"pipe-bot-i-seek-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"Pipe-Bot : I Seek Leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2014 what began as a negligible leak in a gas pipeline managed to escalate to a full blown explosion that created eight fatalities in an apartment building in New York City. A leak in a water pipe may not pose a great hazard, but as this explosion that leveled two whole apartments showed, a gas leak is nothing to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Kamal Youcef- Toumi is a mechanical engineer at MIT who may have the perfect solution to tracing gas leaks before they cause a tragedy. His team has been working on a<a href=\"http:\/\/ezinearticles.com\/search\/?q=&amp;expert=Aurora+Lipper&amp;index=50\"> science experiment<\/a> to produce an autonomous robot who will be able to do what no sensor in the world is able to do today, patrol the pipes from within.<\/p>\n<p>The Pipe-Bot as it has been nicknamed is a two liter pet bottle sized prototype which floats through the interior of the pipe looking for pressure differences that may indicate a leak. This data is then sent over with GPS coordinates to a technician who can check the section of the pipe physically and make necessary repairs.<\/p>\n<p>This system when implemented commercially will be far more effective in detecting leaks than the existing acoustic sensors that are currently in use to detect leaks from above the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2014 what began as a negligible leak in a gas pipeline managed to escalate to a full blown explosion that created eight fatalities in an apartment building in New York City. A leak in a water pipe may not pose a great hazard, but as this explosion that leveled two whole apartments showed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}