District Heating and Cooling - Leak Detection Systems

[TomDeWitte]

DHC Geonet users,

I am trying to understand how to model Leak Detection systems within a Utility Network.  This monitoring system seems to be commonly used in District Heating and Cooling systems.  What I have learned so far is that a Leak Detection system is comprised of the following components:

-Leak Detection Panel

-Leak Detection Test Point

-Leak Detection Wire

-Leak Detection Withdrawal Point

A customer was kind enough to share the following drawing to help explain this system.

Here are my initial questions:

1) Is this a complete inventory of the components which comprise a leak detection system.

2) Is the leak detection wire always embedded in the insulation of the main?

3) If the wire is embedded in the pipe insulation, could it be stored as an attribute of the pipe versus being a separate feature?

Thanks

Tom DeWitte

Esri, Inc

[Roger_Eidsiva]

Hi
Have you found any answers on your listed questions.
I'm exloring the District Energy Utility Network Foundation 2.0 model and is struggeling with the same issue.
Best  regards
Roger Bakkestuen

[TomDeWitte]

Hi Roger,

The honest answer is "no.  I am still looking for more customer feedback to these questions.

Tom DeWitte

[Roger_Eidsiva]

Hi Tom
Thanks for honest answer.

Part of my company is in a transfer prosess and till now they have documented Leak Detection Wire as Object.
We are having same debate as you have noted over.
Keeping a full topology model on the leak detection system is "safe" but in our case almost 100% of wiring is part of the pipe object. Which gives duplicate documentation.
Altough it would be a good thing to derive a schematics model for visualization purposes espersially in a live error search situation.
Any Heads up if you stumble into something would be appreciated.
Roger Bakkestuen