TraceTek Sensing Cable Construction

Direct Sensing

TraceTek sensing cable is unique in the leak detection industry. It senses the materials being monitored directly at the sensor level with no electro-mechanical components. Effectively, this is like having a sophisticated chemical lab positioned all along the sensor's length. And this type of sensing cable works. TraceTek 3rd Party EPA testing in the USA by Carnage Mellon indicates a 100% chance of detection and a 0% chance of a false alarm for ALL sensors. Additionally, 3rd party threshold response testing demonstrates a 25,000 - 50,000 pip sensitivity to hydrocarbon liquid and vapour phase materials.

Almost all other leak detection systems sense materials indirectly. Capacitance measuring 2-wire cable systems for example (Time Domain Reflectometry technology -TDR ) detect an event caused by a leak, instead of the leak itself.

These systems detect only a change in capacitance level and then try to evaluate this change with a somewhat sophisticated computer program. However, a re-positioned cable, a change in moisture level, corrosion at a connector, and a host of other factors can cause a change in capacitance. The control module is then left with the near impossible task of sorting out a leak or a continuity failure from some other event that causes a capacitance change.

In areas where sensing cables would be difficult to install or impractical due to the conditions, Point Sensing probes step into the breach.