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A Method of locating Interfaces in Oil Pipelines

Nature volume 176, page 223 (1955)Cite this article

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IT is often desirable to locate or follow the interface between two oils or fuels during transmission along a pipeline. Present methods include those based upon sampling techniques or radioactive labelling of the interface. The first of these is tedious and slow, and the second method involves the injection of a radioactive marker substance at the interface, with the attendant difficulties of handling radioactive material in the product itself.

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    D. B. SMITH & G. R. CHURCH

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SMITH, D., CHURCH, G. A Method of locating Interfaces in Oil Pipelines. Nature 176, 223 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/176223b0

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