Silicon Carbide Sensors Could Improve Oil and Gas Pipeline Safety
Dr. Toan Dinh is a mechanical engineer from Australia who has found a way to help avert death and injury on mining sites. His method involves the use of new sensors created using silicon carbide to detect early mechanical issues in gas and oil pipelines. Dinh, an engineer from the University of Southern Queensland, has spent the last 6 years creating these sensors whose objective is to identify impending danger in corrosive as well as harsh environments. Dinh explained that as compared to the width of a human hair, the sensors were 5-100 times tinier and performed a 1000 times…
